Rocket power

[kwong20287]

Is our rocket ship more powerful than the one that took us to the Moon? Or whatever the most powerful rocket is today?

[Zanda]

Originally posted by kwong20287:

Is our rocket ship more powerful than the one that took us to the Moon? Or whatever the most powerful rocket is today?

Considering it would have to be fit for FTL travel, it would be waaay more powerful.
To breach earths atmo a rocket has to go 4.9 miles per second.

To reach LIGHTSPEED our rocket has to go 186,000 miles per second.

[kwong20287]

So we don't need any form of cryosleep? Is it going to take a long time to reach Earth? Can our rocket ship pass through the phasegate or do we have to spacewalk through it?

[Zanda]

Originally posted by kwong20287:

So we don't need any form of cryosleep? Is it going to take a long time to reach Earth?

From what I understand, if the rocket can do FTL travel, and reach a warp gate it should only take a few months to reach an Alterra outpost, or maybe even earth.

[Nyello]

Originally posted by ZandaTheBigBluePanda:

Originally posted by kwong20287:

So we don't need any form of cryosleep? Is it going to take a long time to reach Earth?

From what I understand, if the rocket can do FTL travel, and reach a warp gate it should only take a few months to reach an Alterra outpost, or maybe even earth.

Ugh, even thinking about being alone for that long gives me the weebie jeebies. I wonder if there is such a thing as "space madness"? XD.

[kwong20287]

https://youtu.be/qxiKuaxT5vA

[Phaota]

The rocket will take the character to whatever nearby Alterra outpost in the celestial zone, not Earth. But I doubt we will see any of that.

[kwong20287]

Originally posted by Phaota:

The rocket will take the character to whatever nearby Alterra outpost in the celestial zone, not Earth. But I doubt we will see any of that.

Why an outpost and not Earth? Surely, there is a phasegate in our solar system to link to.

[RCMidas]

It's a slapdash effort on Alterra's side, put together in less than a day after the Aurora was shot down. Remember when you get the message about it, they say "We think it's capable of breaking orbit" - they're not 100% sure, but they are fairly confident that it can manage that and get you back to the nearest phasegate.

It's very much a case of 'Well, it'll probably work. If not, we did our best, legally speaking.'

Besides, they don't even know for sure if you can build it, just that it's quite likely given the data sent back - and they have no clue how you'll power the damn thing. That we'll be able to is almost entirely up to the existence of the ion crystals that Alterra had no clue existed.

Which answers your question at once. Yes, it's more powerful, by several orders of magnitude. We use chemical rockets because that's the only sort we have access to, principally due to ethical or economic limitations. In real life we haven't even achieved interplanetary travel, as only unmanned probes have been sent out beyond the Moon. In game, we'll be performing interstellar travel.

[nicken chugger]

the Aurora was supposed to build a phasegate, suggesting that the area does not have a near by phasegate.