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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7087808" data-attributes="member: 19675">For the most part, how starships cross interstellar distances is immaterial.&nbsp; After all, most of the fun occurs when they're at one end of the journey or the other.&nbsp; In most fiction, such drives can't even work deep in a gravity well, and space combat velocities are well below c.It might matter if, for example, you were having a scenario where someone was trying to disable the ship's interstellar capabilities.&nbsp; For a pure sci-if ship, they might have to pursuade the chief engineer to tell them where a shutoff switch is, or the best place to temporarily disable the engine.In something sci-fantasy or purely magic, the title &quot;Engineer&quot; may refer to beings who actually operate as the ship's interstellar drive...So make some general notes, but don't worry too much about detailed mechanics unless and until you need to</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7087808, member: 19675"] For the most part, [I]how[/I] starships cross interstellar distances is immaterial. After all, most of the fun occurs when they're at one end of the journey or the other. In most fiction, such drives can't even work deep in a gravity well, and space combat velocities are well below c. It might matter if, for example, you were having a scenario where someone was trying to disable the ship's interstellar capabilities. For a pure sci-if ship, they might have to pursuade the chief engineer to tell them where a shutoff switch is, or the best place to temporarily disable the engine. In something sci-fantasy or purely magic, the title "Engineer" may refer to beings who actually operate as the ship's interstellar drive... So make some general notes, but don't worry too much about detailed mechanics unless and until you need to [/QUOTE]

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