You can’t play MMOs on a lighthugger in flight even with access to copious amounts of tangle (or, for that matter, any other theoretical kind of ansible), because relativistic time dilation causes terrible, terrible lag.
SINGULARITY INJECTION ZONE DANGER NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU, AND NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU PAINFULLY, BUT THE SUBJECTIVE TIMESPAN OF YOUR AGONY WILL BE EXTENDED TO INFINITY (IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY, START RUNNING NOW) – seen in Unit 3, Dark Star Power Plant, Xavéral
Year Outside, Hour Inside: Thanks to relativity, truth in television for lighthugger crews, who slowly build up a hefty time differential (and cultural delta) with the parts of the universe operating on the empire-time frame. (Hint: if there’s a family member or social grouping you just can’t live
A commenter raises an interesting point with regard to fleet communications, which as we have seen in various places, tend to look like this: FROM: CS GRITFIST (FIELD FLEET RIMWARD) TO: FIELD FLEET RIMWARD COMMAND (CS ARMIGEROUS PROPERTARIAN) *** ROUTINE *** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 *** OVERDUE FOLLOWUP REF: TASK GROUP R-4-118 REF: OVERDUE
Subspace Ansible: The tangle channel, which involves manufactured entangled (not in the standard quantum sense, note, because we know that doesn’t work; these are ontotechnological devices using the “privileged channels” a long way behind those) particle-pairs. This makes them quite expensive (since they are a consumable resource, one particle
“Greetings, Citizen Asamis! You have reached the voice communications service of Bora Phylarius. Unfortunately, my principal is off-world at the moment and cannot be reached by real-time dataweave services. “If you are calling about a non-urgent matter, a message may be forwarded using non-real-time services. Current estimated time until receipt,
“Finally, let us turn to the biggest megaships of them all, the fleet carriers. Including them in this work is a choice which I expect to be somewhat controversial – many would argue that a fleet carrier is a formation, not a vessel – but with respect to those readers who may
(Alternate words: hammer, hardware, hatred.) It was in the fourteenth year of the reign of the Third Citrine Triarchs that the new star appeared, a blue pinpoint in the Fourth House, above the beak of the Ram. No ancient writings spoke of this. None predicted its appearance. As is customary,
You Can’t Go Home Again: A consequence of lighthugger travel and the ensuing time dilation for ephemerals; or people from ephemeral societies, rather, since it’s the high cultural delta of the society you left that causes the problem. Also, more rarely, what happens to people left off-world at
Streaming Stars: Averted. However incomprehensible the speeds lighthuggers move at, they’re not nearly fast enough – and can’t be, courtesy of the luminal limit – to create noticeable motion parallax. Some blue- and red-shifting and relativistic distortion, yes, once they’re cruising along at the full 0.9c; but no