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It's interesting to see this topic brought up without a reference to Haldeman's seminal Forever War. I can't recall whether he specifically outlines the means o
by dcole2929 8y ago
It's interesting to see this topic brought up without a reference to Haldeman's seminal Forever War. I can't recall whether he specifically outlines the means of interstellar travel in his universe as Ramjets but the story heavily relies on this concept.
- ggambetta 8y agoIIRC they use "collapsars", which are wormhole-like things that are discovered, not made (or maybe left there by a previous civilization?). They spend weeks and months accelerating to and decelerating from collapsars, but I don't think they mention ramjets as a means to accelerate and decelerate in "normal space".
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y agoI have never read the book, but “collapsar” was a term used before ‘Black Hole’ became popular as it is today.
- KineticLensman 8y agoHaldeman doesn't use Ramjets in 'Forever War'[0], since the soldiers have access to Collapsars (black holes?) for instantaneous point-to-point jumps. He doesn't describe the drive technology that gets them from between planets and the collapsars, except to say that the ships were 'converted cattlewagons ... with extra reaction mass' [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
- dcole2929 8y agoYeah I couldn't recall whether he specifically called out the drive technology used to accelerate and decelerate from the collapsars or not. From the description and mechanics it sounded pretty similar.