Fel wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 6:50 am
Just to clear up some of the speculation about the Ruu:
--They haven't been working on the drives, they've been trying to solve the equations that Cybi and Cyra solved that allows a computer to govern a drive to maintain a translight state in hyperspace. Though, now that they've seen what those equations lead to, they'll devote a lot more resources to it.
The irony here is that the Ruu had no intention of building a translight drive until they saw from the Karinnes that it could be done.
...and knowing what is possible, from the Karrine reports certainly provides no small incentive in that respect.
Of course, everyone else is likely to do the same as well even though they've been told it is "beyond them" in every way at the present time, even if the purpose is to try to determine just how far beyond them it may actually be.
A very common thing in R&D on Earth, very little interest in actual research until somebody has an inkling of what the potential payoff could be, and if the payoff is big enough and the resources are available, the "slow drip" can turn into a deluge, even without espionage being in play.
In the short term, I expect that there is going to be a run on the market for operational translight drives across the Galaxy, even if they cannot be used in hyperspace, knowing what can be done with them "in the future" is going to make establishing, and then maintaining that particular technological skill set something the other empires are going to see as something of a priority I'd suspect.