How powerful was the Wanderer's drive if it could slowboat it to firewatch in just 8 years? Looking at the map Firewatch is about 5-6 ly from Rialtis, meaning that the Wanderer would have had to go at an average speed of 0.625c - 0.75c
One thing I’m curious about do ships have to pay for some kind of token for passage through a gate or is it like a highway where everyone can use it so long as you obey regulations? Also what about ship flying foreign flags I’m interested in how that works
The implication of the Avalon Expedition's fear that the Advari could follow them back through the return gate to Tantalus, necessitating the plan to rig the gate with a bomb to destroy it after they escaped at the end of the first season, would suggest that there's no real control over whether a vessel can transit. S1E1 does show that there are gate controllers similar to air traffic control, but that seems more of a management system, just like real life ATC can't actually prevent an aircraft from landing. The short on gate use during warfare suggests similar, as it stated raiding forces would make a single-gate jump to assault and then make a run for the return gate to escape. If a token was needed, then that token could effectively be an IFF to prevent gate transit by raiding forces attempting to escape back to their territory.
@@TheMrZ Yep, that is the general impression. It seems as though the para-gravitic catapult mechanism of a Drift Gate is either always on or triggers automatically in response to an object of sufficient mass being sent through, with the only way to actually prevent a transit jump being to either completely turn the Gate off or destroy it entirely. Though, this may change with the arrival of the Advari and how they are going to do far more damage to the Worlds of Tantalus than the Frontier Union Militia ever did to the Centrum Assembly.
Apparently ships have to register their mass with gate transit long in advance, and a sufficient change in mass could require a ship to re-register so that the ship can be properly calibrated. So… what happens when a gate is set to “lowest mass possible” and a large ship tries to rush the gate? They’re just stuck far short of their destination? If so, I feel like this is the closest a gate can get to “denying transit” to a ship,, just forcing them to burn extra fuel to reach their destination as a consequence for rushing the gate.
Since it is so hard to get to without a drift link, will they one day destroy or disable their own so they can live in peace away form the famine, as they seem relatively self sufficient?
Not a smart move if you ask me. When that gate is your only means of communication and reaching the rest of the cluster it's neither viable nor ethical to just sever that connection, you've basically just confined yourself to a single planetary system that may offer little to no resources vital for survival. Cut off from interstellar commerce and trade, especially when you consider that the rest of Tantalus may have resources and commodities the Firewatch system lacks.
Season 2 hasn't yet been made, it's currently still in development. All going according to plan, it should be on Nebula as soon as we finish making it.
@@GabrielGABFonseca oh my bad… Thank you for your work with it, I absolutely loved it. I‘m really looking forward to S2, especially with those cliffhangers at the end. And should you ever need a German language consultant, hit me up :)
Just one question, how exactly was the Wanderer able to decelerate towards Firewatch? The heat shield is only on one side so the drive cone would get burned up, which in a way defeats the purpose of having the heat shield in the first place.
Maybe riding the Extreme solar winds that the firewatch star would push out? That would probably save Delta V and the volume it would take up on the platform which could then be used to truck more resources for the colony.
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How powerful was the Wanderer's drive if it could slowboat it to firewatch in just 8 years?
Looking at the map Firewatch is about 5-6 ly from Rialtis, meaning that the Wanderer would have had to go at an average speed of 0.625c - 0.75c
Okay, the Fire Canal concept is really cool.
One thing I’m curious about do ships have to pay for some kind of token for passage through a gate or is it like a highway where everyone can use it so long as you obey regulations? Also what about ship flying foreign flags I’m interested in how that works
Probably as modern day canals like Panama and suez
The implication of the Avalon Expedition's fear that the Advari could follow them back through the return gate to Tantalus, necessitating the plan to rig the gate with a bomb to destroy it after they escaped at the end of the first season, would suggest that there's no real control over whether a vessel can transit.
S1E1 does show that there are gate controllers similar to air traffic control, but that seems more of a management system, just like real life ATC can't actually prevent an aircraft from landing.
The short on gate use during warfare suggests similar, as it stated raiding forces would make a single-gate jump to assault and then make a run for the return gate to escape. If a token was needed, then that token could effectively be an IFF to prevent gate transit by raiding forces attempting to escape back to their territory.
@@TheMrZ Yep, that is the general impression. It seems as though the para-gravitic catapult mechanism of a Drift Gate is either always on or triggers automatically in response to an object of sufficient mass being sent through, with the only way to actually prevent a transit jump being to either completely turn the Gate off or destroy it entirely. Though, this may change with the arrival of the Advari and how they are going to do far more damage to the Worlds of Tantalus than the Frontier Union Militia ever did to the Centrum Assembly.
Apparently ships have to register their mass with gate transit long in advance, and a sufficient change in mass could require a ship to re-register so that the ship can be properly calibrated.
So… what happens when a gate is set to “lowest mass possible” and a large ship tries to rush the gate? They’re just stuck far short of their destination? If so, I feel like this is the closest a gate can get to “denying transit” to a ship,, just forcing them to burn extra fuel to reach their destination as a consequence for rushing the gate.
I really hope we get a side story or something focused on the Wanderer Expedition at some point in the future.
I mean it seems like it was uneventful and boring, a simple interstellar crossing.
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I love how it all fits together. That's great and very realistic. At least as far as I know.
I’m so excited for seson2
Since it is so hard to get to without a drift link, will they one day destroy or disable their own so they can live in peace away form the famine, as they seem relatively self sufficient?
Not a smart move if you ask me. When that gate is your only means of communication and reaching the rest of the cluster it's neither viable nor ethical to just sever that connection, you've basically just confined yourself to a single planetary system that may offer little to no resources vital for survival. Cut off from interstellar commerce and trade, especially when you consider that the rest of Tantalus may have resources and commodities the Firewatch system lacks.
They're only self sufficient as in the economy is profitable, I'm not under the imrpession they produce enough food on their own
Could still use a one way gate to it it would just be inaccurate
Why not do a fraction of the wanderer's journey through a drift gate?
It's either a stars gravity well or another drift gate that stops/slows the ship. So you have to aim for a celestial body.
@@The_Sci-Fi_Slut Thx for the clarification.
Awesome
Pretty cool
Can you tell is when S2 is coming to Nebula?
Season 2 hasn't yet been made, it's currently still in development. All going according to plan, it should be on Nebula as soon as we finish making it.
@@GabrielGABFonseca oh my bad… Thank you for your work with it, I absolutely loved it. I‘m really looking forward to S2, especially with those cliffhangers at the end.
And should you ever need a German language consultant, hit me up :)
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Latw comment but Sad to hear the wonderer was pretty much destroyed from the bombing
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Just one question, how exactly was the Wanderer able to decelerate towards Firewatch? The heat shield is only on one side so the drive cone would get burned up, which in a way defeats the purpose of having the heat shield in the first place.
Maybe riding the Extreme solar winds that the firewatch star would push out? That would probably save Delta V and the volume it would take up on the platform which could then be used to truck more resources for the colony.
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