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What makes ED such a cool game is it's accurate representation of physics and gravity. For example, an SRV is gonna have to work harder to travel along a high-density planet due to it's higher gravitational pull or you must pull away far enough from away from a planet when leaving in order for it's gravitational field not to affect your ship and you can engage your Frame Shift Drive. Even just the fact it takes distance to a real, 1:1 scale is mind blowing. However, i had a thought while watchin…

That's a good point. You generally enter a system at 1/10th-1/4 the speed of light so it that makes sense you're going fast enough for it's gravity not to affect you.BUT being 1300 years into the future, you'd *think* we'd find a material that was strong enough to withstand the effects of flying close to a star.

in ED, it appears the shields are only heat resistant. If you orbit too close to the sun, your FSD will shut down and you get to cook a little bit while letting your engines cool down before makings sure you're well done trying to leave the orbit.In 10 years, we may have the technology to colonize the stars and become a space-faring species. in 1000 years, what we have in 10 will be ancient tech.

Solar Sails are a totally viable means of interstellar travelYou just gotta have the capacitors charged up full because eventually you're gonna fly far enough out where the light from the sun is just a twinkle and be a million billion miles from anywhere. Space: There's a lot itThat said, plasma shields would be too dangerous, especially if one works with volatile gasses. Energy shields in general i think are far beyond current technologies and we just don't have the means to understand it. Be i…

I was going along the lines of Count Dooku's Solar Yacht:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/count_dooku%27s_punworcca_116-class_interstellar_sloop (Quote)So Count Dooku's version picked up any and all space energy, not just ones put out by a star. The biggest downside is it's slow and would take quite a while to get from point a to b.So, answer this. Our hull has a negative charge and the plasma is negatively charged as well. Whats stopping the particles thats supposed to protect you from just flyi…

If you've watched the show The Expanse, they set their ship up so the decks run vertically as opposed to horizontally like on a cruise ship or destroyer. That way you can have that simulated gravity without being flung to the back of the ship (including the use of stylish mag boots)If Nasa were to build an intergalactic ship right now, they'd probably use a pulse drive (see 'Project Orion') through the use of a nuclear reactor. But i say they wait until they've figured out FTL travel. Lets go as…

right. 1g thrust is good for traveling between say...Earth and Mars and to the Asteroid Belt.But it's still gonna take you a long ass time to get from here to Barnards Star, Sol's closest stellar neighbor (~4 light years). At most you'd be travelling a couple thousand kilometers per second. I mean...yeah that's still pretty fricken fast, but not quick enough for the Theory of Relativity to not matter. From what i've seen, most sci-fi leaves out Relativity when it comes to faster than light trave…