One thing I really like of Eclipse phase is that pretty much all the non-alien,non-Titan science is "hard-science" -- in the sense that not only it does not run against science as we know it today, but in fact it's quite plausible it will be developed sometime this century. One sore exception is FTL communication through "entangled qbits". The "spooky action at a distance" that's quantum entanglement in no way allows one to trasmit a bit faster than light.
So, in my next game there will be no FTL communication -- except through the use of alien devices such as Pandora Gates. As far as I can tell, this will have only a relatively small impact on the game, and such impact will be essentially only positive (the only negative side effect I can see is the usual problems that come from "diverging from canon"). But maybe I'm missing something -- any caveats I should be aware of?
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Removing "Entangled Qbit" communication
Tue, 2011-11-01 10:15
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babayaga
Removing "Entangled Qbit" communication
root@Removing qbit communications[hr] Removing QE communications makes sense as a game balance, as players can do some incredibly annoying things with them, but I disagree that they are soft scifi. Basically how it works is that at point A two qbits are made, tucked into different reservoirs, and then these reservoirs can travel to points B and C all they want and still be in communication. The key limitation here is that they move away from each other slower than the speed of light, so no information is "transmitted" at FTL any more than the effects of a gravity field are transmitted at FTL.@-rep +1|c-rep +1|g-rep +1|r-rep +1]