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Harry
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Mr. Scott's guide claims that Excelsior's transwarp was based on the interphase phenomenon from "The Tholian Web", although it's a very vague story.

There's also the notion of 'hypersubspace', which the Pathfinder people used to communicate with Voyager.

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quote:
Originally posted by Harry:
wf 14.1 after M/AM integrator fuses (extremely close to wf 10 TNG).

Er, you sure?

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Nothing is close to Warp 10 on the TNG scale... it is infinite... the warp scale in TNG continues to add decimal places with speed ever vastly increasing but no new stable area is found, like at the integral warp factors 1-9. 1.5 is faster than 1 but not as efficent as 2. The same is true for factors above Warp 9... they just haven't found the right combination of factors to eek out another point of efficency. This is perhaps a barrier of technology vertium cornide can only be refined so much and after that there isn't anything you can do to it to make it absorb plasma and transmit subspace fields better. At that point you need to add other technologies to the system [like the Borg's transwarp coil].

There is nothing that is pretty darn close to Warp 10... not even subspace comms which go 9.9997 IIRC [and probably faster since TNG TM].

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Harry
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I admit, the warp calculator I used was a bit off. I found a better one, and wf 14.1 = wf 9.5669 in TNG. Still pretty damn impressive for a Constitution.

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"Hypersubspace"...that'd be normal space, wouldn't it. And why do we forget Voth transwarp drive, which was obviously neither conduit-driven nor everywhere & squishy?

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Harry
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Yes, "hypersubspace" was a really clever bit of Thresholdian technocrap. On nearly the same level as "warp particles" and "fast than light, no left or right".

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What I came up with six years ago.

I'm not so happy about the prose these days, but it still seems sound enough to me.

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That looks remarkably like a Yahoo "fuck off" page. I bow to your forgery skills, Sol.

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Did anyone mention the Romulan forced artificial blackhole propulsion or what ever it was?

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That was just an alternative power-generation system for a conventional warp drive.

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Sol System
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My own fault for relying on the dead past, I suppose.

I wonder if I have it somewhere more convenient...

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For realz, y'all.
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If that diagram reveals anything, it's the futility of trying to depict a four-dimensional reality from a three-dimensional vantage point through a two-dimensional medium with one-dimensional iconography.

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Dimension these!
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Warp 10 = Infinite Speed right?
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