if you lose an engine, your ship wont move after you are warped to...where ever, lol. so even if u made it to the asteroid or even ur home sector, youd be dead in the water and unable to even dock:)

That's tear as in rip not as in cry. heh.

Think of it this way. Lets say, at random short periods of time, the amount of energy that heavy weapons fire has added to the sector builds up. Consequently, in the middle of a heavy dogfight, loaded with explosions and high energy weapons pulses, space gives away. A wormhole, much like the ones linking sectors, suddely blinks into existance, starting very small then growing to full size. An alarm goes off in the ship, a warning to get out of the area. Those who dont make it far enough, or decide to just go right in and take a chance, either...

1, about 2% of the time, end up transported to some place where everyone's an enemy and turrets and ships open fire, destroying the intruders. Perhaps this could be a hidden and otherwise unaccessible sector with strange new ships.

2, 50% of the time, they end up, 3-4 sectors away, but never in another teams home sector.

3, 40% of the time they end up back at home base.

4. The other 8% find themselves, inside something? How bout a hollow asteroid, something that actually has an exit, but is really hard to find? Maybe filled with valuable cargo as a reward for needing to find your way out?

Additional fun could be the random loss of a few items? Maybe your cargo is lost. Maybe a weapon, or an engine dissapears. Maybe the random wormhole takes your ship offline for 5 seconds or so due to radiation?

oh well. just a wierd idea. And yes I know other people have suggested black holes and such earlier, I read through a lot of the archives.

hi CeaddaCompy.


now thats what i want! but it cant happin all the time or ppl will just nuke tell it comes! good idea!