Transit

[Guest Menown]

Bluespace is a catch-all, but what's the stance on transit after work? Would somebody be able to jump to another system at a low cost and logical amount of time to make commute easier every day?

[Xelnagahunter]

I've spoken on this before and seen replies that lead me to think that bluespace is expensive enough that only the elite own private blusespace vehicles, but is common enough that a it equates to paying bus fare for travel. So it's cheap, fast, and widely used. I may be wrong but that's me thoughts.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I've spoken on this before and seen replies that lead me to think that bluespace is expensive enough that only the elite own private blusespace vehicles, but is common enough that a it equates to paying bus fare for travel. So it's cheap, fast, and widely used. I may be wrong but that's me thoughts.

 

That's pretty much it, I think. Bluespace mass transit is a thing, and interplanetary commutes are very common.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Bluespace for commercial use is a lot like passenger trains or city buses. For inner-system travel, the shuttles would be like we have and more like buses.

The main bluespace shuttles in the train analogy would take a few hours to jump from one system to the next. They would go through bluespace gates along with other traffic. Think of bluespace transit like the US Freeway system except trains are also using it.

Affluent characters can possibly afford their own small shuttle with bluespace capabilities. They still have to follow traffic laws but they can jump between any bluespace beacon that gives them easy coordinates. Jumping without bluespace beacons for your drive to lock onto is like using telescience for the first time without knowing any of the math. There are occasional accidents where a brave or drunk driver jumped straight into a building, another ship, or solid asteroid, which are all fatal for obvious reasons.

For an easy frame of reference, think of your travel across known space like a road trip in the US. Travelling from one city to the next can be done on a single tank of gas and a small budget, or you can take the bus and pay the equivalent fares. Travel to the next state would take more than a few hours, and traveling across the entire US would require a lot of bus-hopping. Or you can take the train, and either book a few seats in the regular compartment, or be wealthy enough for your own small cabin in the train.

[Frances]

Related question, what does the commute of a person coming to work on the Aurora from Earth look like? From the colonies?

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Related question, what does the commute of a person coming to work on the Aurora from Earth look like? From the colonies?

 

Ughhhhh this would be so much easier to answer if shifts on the Aurora didn't last 4 hours. We work less than part-time. Lore-wise it would take a minimum of several hours to transit from Earth to Tau Ceti and it's extremely silly to have a situation where you spend 9 hours in a train to work for 2-4 hours, then transit back for 9 hours. Unless we agree to some hand-wave explanation for how time progresses on the Aurora then honestly I don't know anything that would be reasonable.

[Owen]

Maybe it is like you stay on Biesel for a few days then whenever your character is off they head back home? I am not really sure, it just seems like a waste to fly all the way out to Tau Ceti when you live on Earth.

[Eliot Clef]

Related question, what does the commute of a person coming to work on the Aurora from Earth look like? From the colonies?

 

Ughhhhh this would be so much easier to answer if shifts on the Aurora didn't last 4 hours. We work less than part-time. Lore-wise it would take a minimum of several hours to transit from Earth to Tau Ceti and it's extremely silly to have a situation where you spend 9 hours in a train to work for 2-4 hours, then transit back for 9 hours. Unless we agree to some hand-wave explanation for how time progresses on the Aurora then honestly I don't know anything that would be reasonable.

 

Some roleplay sites I've been to didn't adhere to 1:1 time so that time could progress at a reasonable rate for the players without requiring literal IRL years for things to progress.

If a similar setup would be desired, I'd recommend time progressing in-character somewhere in the ballpark of 2.7 times more quickly than realtime, making a shift 5ish-8ish hours.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

That would require a thread in the suggestions subforum and implementation by the coders.

Otherwise I have no satisfying answer to explain transits from star systems outside Tau Ceti. Until we work out the time aspect of the Aurora, I'll just say it's up to whatever you think is reasonable for your character to do.

[LordFowl]

What does it look like when one of these "drunk drivers" bluespace directly into the building? How catastrophic is the impact?

[Frances]

So everyone who works on the Aurora lives in Tau Ceti?

[Xelnagahunter]

My Captain lives on Earth. However, he has a "luxury" apartment (read:cheap room) on the Odin. When he has sufficient time between shifts he goes home. Otherwise he just sits on the Odin.

[Rusty Shackleford]

So everyone who works on the Aurora lives in Tau Ceti?

 

The majority of people would likely live in Tau Ceti, and some might have apartments on the Odin or on the surface of Biesel where they stay for the portion of the week they're working on the Aurora.