Talk:Technology in Revelation Space
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Cwolfsheep 02:30, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Conjoiner Drive Mechanics?
I thought revelation space strongly implied that the conjoiner drives were a type of bussard ramjet rather than this wormhole to the past explanation. I assume this is stated as fact in one of his other books from the same cannon but I would just like someone who knows to tell me for certain.--Pypex 01:33, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
- Uh, I just realised...if you haven't read Redemption Ark, you probably shouldn't read my response.
- There is a lot of inconsistency with regard to drive mechanics in general in RS. It seems to me that Reynolds came up with the wormhole method as a result of the whole Exordium thing, which (if memory serves) was "revealed" in Redemption Ark. I guess the ramliners were used in the early short stories because that was the best he could come up with (for want of a better term) at the time. It's oddly contradictory though, because the ram scoop method is seemingly written off as infeasible in The Prefect. --Closedmouth 14:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
It's mentioned in one of the stories in Galactic North that there is a "gateway to hell" in each engine. It also mentions ramliners in "Dilation Sleep", which Reynolds said was set in an older version of the universe. I guess the wormhole version is the cannon one then.
[edit] Vain Weapons
I think it's note worthy of the cache weapons that they're said to be vain, it seems an important part of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.108.176 (talk) 10:47, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
