Thread:Nra 'Vadumee/@comment-2001921-20120913172227

For the Triangulum Galaxy civilisations I'm working on, I feel that FTL and shields are necessary. However, the current FTL methods all cause tactical changes that I'd rather not have, and the shields have no explanation.

I'd like to propose solutions- for FTL, a jump-drive based on travel partially through the unobservable spatial dimensions, which is unworkable within a strong gravity well (such as a solar system), and for shields, a device which siphons off the energy of the attack into those same dimensions (with limits, of course).

Thoughts? 