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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7412786" data-attributes="member: 6925649">Sure, I would love to. The thing about wormhole maps is that wormholes don't have to connect the closest system, you could put the other end of a wormhole on the other side of a galaxy, or even in another galaxy if you wanted to. If you create a wormhole, the two ends start out close to each other. You create both ends simultaneously, their close proximity to each other causes the ends to connect with each other upon creation. After that, you can do anything with them. With electrical charges you can move the various ends of a wormhole around. You could move one end of a wormhole and leave the other end behind. You can't move either wormhole end faster than the speed of light, and the same rules or relativity apply to the wormhole ends as with anything else you are moving close to the speed of light, but the effects of time dialation do not hold through the wormhole, only from the outside. To give you an example. You could quickly accelerate one end of a wormhole to near the speed of light, and you could move it to a location 100 light years away, and then slow it down. Because one can't exceed the speed of light, time dilation comes into play, it will take longer than 100 years to travel 100 light years, so the end of the wormhole you have moved ends up over 100 years in the future relative to the end of the wormhole that remains behind. Now relative to the wormhole being moved, it could take only 10 years from the point of view of the moving wormhole to travel that 100 light years. 10 years would pass for the moving wormhole and 100 years would pass for the rest of the universe, and through the wormhole, only ten years has passed for the wormhole end that remained being and everything on the other side of that wormhole as seen through the wormhole.One can therefore start at the remain behind wormhole and step through it, and travel 100 light years and more than 100 years into the future, one can also step back through the wormhole and go back to your original location and over 100 years would not have passed. If you are through the wormhole and 100 light years away, you can't travel back to the past outside that wormhole it would take over another 100 years to go back through the outside universe. If you brought that far end of the wormhole as you traveled back to your starting point, over 200 years would pass in the external universe from the point you began that first journey out to the stars. If you put those two wormhole ends together again, when you end up with is a time machine which allows you to jump forward and back in time by increments of over 200 years.Now their are different ways to handle the time paradoxes that result from travel in the past, the approach I am going to take with this setting is the "Many Worlds Hypothesis" A new timeline is created where ever communication with the past in the same area that you are in. Effectively we have a bunch of star systems connected together that are all in a number of different parallel universes with different timelines due to communication within one's own past light cone.Now lets suppose this wormhole network was created by an alien civilization millions of years ago, it is then possible to travel into Earth's own past and then alter it creating a new timeline. Chances are this already happened many times by the time humans in each system have discovered the wormhole in their system.For example in Timeline 1, the first wormhole was discovered in the Sigma Draconis system in the year 4450 AD, by humans who have traveled there in slower than light starships a couple millennia ago, after settling their system, they discovered the wormhole, and found it connects to wormholes in other systems, they discovered a bunch of other systems and then found one that leads to Earth in the 21st century as 2050 AD, they find an Earth where its people are just getting into space, the ruler of the Sigma Draconis system just can't resist, there are 8 billion people living on this Earth and he wants to conquer them and thus be the master of all humanity, he sends his fleet through the wormhole, and he surrounds the Earth and demands that they surrender to him, they refuse and respond with a barrage of nuclear weapons in orbit, a few of the Sigma draconic fleet are destroyed, the rest retreat to a safe distance, a junk belt then surrounds the Earth from all that debris created by detonating nuclear weapons, the EMP radiation shorts out the power distribution networks and fries electrics across the surface. The Draconians do not want to damage their ships by passing through the orbital junk belt, so they settle the rest of the Solar System instead, leaving the Earth humans to their own devices, they make claims on Mars, and the Earth humans cannot stop them. The Draconians terraform Mars, and crown princess Ardala becomes the local rule of that planet by the 25th century.<img src="https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.K-R7MZZQIeFE43dRKPVaQgHaJL&w=163&h=202&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />if you haven't guessed by now, this setting is based on some of the ideas from the 1970s television show Buck Rogers in the 25th century. In that setting there were stargates connecting the various systems, they weren't explained very much, people just used them, they were in space, so you needed a spaceship to use them.In a Traveller version of this, the set up is much the same wormholes are in remote parts of each star system for safety, because of the theoretical possibility of a wormhole exploding and releasing a tremendous amount of energy. There is evidence of wormholes having exploded in the past, as not every star system has all six. Each wormhole connects to one other system. the wormholes are usually bunched together in close proximity to one another, so it doesn't take much time to go from one wormhole to another. It takes about a day to travel through each wormhole, but any sort of ship which can fit inside a wormhole can travel through one, a space fighter could, as could a life boat, a shuttle, or even a man in a spacesuit. The difference between a starship and a small craft is someone academic as their are no independent jump drives. The standard ships exist, they just don't have jump drives or need jump fuel, that space freed up can be used for something else. Maybe I should make the maneuver drives more fuel hungry to compensate, if I did that however the smallcraft would have less fuel capacity. the rule of thumb is to have each maneuver drive consume the same amount of fuel in four weeks of operation as would a jump drive of the same number would in making a single jump equal to its rating. The maneuver drives use the jump fuel as reaction mass, as they aren't reactionless drives, they have separate fusion fuel to power the power plant, but without the reaction mass, the ships can't accelerate, they could still fire laser weapons and do other things that require power however, just not accelerate.</blockquote>

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