From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 8:13:45 PM UTC-7, Cameron Sanders wrote:   
   > Been working on this concept for a story of mine. If anyone can think of any   
   > similar FTL device please let me know.   
      
     I don't recall anything like it but I haven't read a lot of recent semi-hard   
   SF.   
      
   > X space is a working title, not sure what to call it, but I was inspired by   
   > looking at a picture of a hopf fibration.   
      
     The Wikipedia article is a good memory-refresher.   
      
   > I am trying to think of possible repercussions this technology could have on   
   > a society, militarily or otherwise.   
      
     You could include the motions of the fibers WRT each other more explicitly   
   and how they affect maneuvering in X space- are there rivers of them, are   
   there shoals in X space?   
      
     As Mikkel says, holding an "exit point" is good strategy commercially   
   (militarily, too) but is it possible to stay in X space and deny other   
   travelers the opportunity to drift with a fiber or change fibers at will?   
      
     Can a ship be stranded in X space when the drive fails or does it just fall   
   back into real space?   
      
     Can combat be conducted in X space? What happens when two ships are drifting   
   on a strand in opposite directions? Can fibers be "mined"? Can a ship detect   
   other objects along the fiber it's on? Can a ship detect other ships on nearby   
   fibers?   
      
     Can trade (ship-to-ship transfers of materiel) be done in X space?   
      
     Is there anything resembling matter native to X space? Are there "natives"   
   native to X space?   
      
     Some classes of fiber may have a Moebius twist that converts matter to   
   antimatter upon emergence into real space. If it costs less energetically to   
   do this intentionally than what you get when you react it with normal matter   
   you have a practically    
   infinite (but very hazardous) power supply. When it happens accidentally...   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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