If only Ione could - she's not an expert on the subject and has to squint for a second to find the right words.
"I'm not a technician, so I can only speak from the experience of someone who got sent through transport a lot, as opposed to -- I didn't actually do any of it, I don't know how to operate the system," thus implying also that she doesn't know how it works, maybe, "We rarely stayed in the same dimensional system, transport is generally used to switch between them, so it depends on how you define space I guess. Wouldn't use it to go to another planet in the same dimension, that would be a waste of computing power. A different dimension's version of that planet, yes, but not one you could travel to by ship or something. And as to time branching, they get classified as different worlds entirely then, so that's both a yes and a no I guess? Series Sixes, for instance, all have identical planetary structures but they're different because the outcomes of historical events are different? But I've probably been to nearly thirty of them, and sometimes we can look and say oh, this choice that was made here is why this is now 6-delta-4201 and not 6-delta-4200, and otherwise it's pretty much all the same down to the people living on it, rather like that?"
Ione's short answers are not short.
Never ask her for long answers.
[I was not the GM of her source game and did not devise this material, but I do have permission to have her blather about it ... since I later married the GM.]
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Re: practice spaces
Date: 2018-11-20 02:56 pm (UTC)"I'm not a technician, so I can only speak from the experience of someone who got sent through transport a lot, as opposed to -- I didn't actually do any of it, I don't know how to operate the system," thus implying also that she doesn't know how it works, maybe, "We rarely stayed in the same dimensional system, transport is generally used to switch between them, so it depends on how you define space I guess. Wouldn't use it to go to another planet in the same dimension, that would be a waste of computing power. A different dimension's version of that planet, yes, but not one you could travel to by ship or something. And as to time branching, they get classified as different worlds entirely then, so that's both a yes and a no I guess? Series Sixes, for instance, all have identical planetary structures but they're different because the outcomes of historical events are different? But I've probably been to nearly thirty of them, and sometimes we can look and say oh, this choice that was made here is why this is now 6-delta-4201 and not 6-delta-4200, and otherwise it's pretty much all the same down to the people living on it, rather like that?"
Ione's short answers are not short.
Never ask her for long answers.
[I was not the GM of her source game and did not devise this material, but I do have permission to have her blather about it ... since I later married the GM.]