Oolite Bulletins

Sorry for the delay. Issues. You know how it is.

Question. In what novel would you find an interplanetary drive that propels a ship by making it simultaneously exist at every point in the universe then semi-randomly "choose" which one to exist at?

Bonus kudos if you can tell us how the novel says that a traveller should prepare for the journey...

This will be the Infinite Improbability Drive from HitchHikers Guide.

According to the Guide...the drive "passes through every conceivable point in every conceivable universe almost simultaneously," meaning the traveller is "never sure where they'll end up or even what species they'll be when they get there" and therefore it's important to dress accordingly.

Call me weird, but I've always thought that improbability drive made a lot of sense. It sounds so believably probable....

Spot on, Smivs, and the extra kudos are even now winging their way across the ether.

Over to you.

Ha, although it fitted I really didn't think that would be the right answer

<Smivs goes off to think of a new question...>

Rxke wrote:

Call me weird, but I've always thought that improbability drive made a lot of sense. It sounds so believably probable....

Heisenberg

Tricky wrote:

Rxke wrote:

Call me weird, but I've always thought that improbability drive made a lot of sense. It sounds so believably probable....

Heisenberg

Starslip Drive.........Infinite Improbability Drive......Probability Weapons
Tech Level: 24.......Tech Level: 25.....................Tech level: 25

Since the highest tech level in Oolite is 15 then there is no chance getting of one

OK, another picture clue.
What type of ship is this, and what TV series is it from?

Smivs wrote:

OK, another picture clue.
What type of ship is this, and what TV series is it from?

Is it an SA-43 "Hammerhead" from "Space: Above and Beyond"?

Crikey, that was quick! Yes it is...over to you

Okay, here's the next one.

The ruler of a planetary system in many respects similar to Reenus launches an invasion of another system for the sole purpose of killing their likely successor.

Name the ruler and their system.

Once again cim you've bamboozled me and I feel I have sunk to the depths of Google and come back with nothing...

cim wrote:

Okay, here's the next one.

The ruler of a planetary system in many respects similar to Reenus launches an invasion of another system for the sole purpose of killing their likely successor.

Name the ruler and their system.

Could it perhaps be the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, whose home system is Kaitain?

Disembodied wrote:

Could it perhaps be the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, whose home system is Kaitain?

It could be, but that's not the one I'm thinking of.

Clues: The story this takes place in is one of a large series of stories by the same author in the same setting, and chronologically is one of the earliest.

Both Reenus and the system I'm looking for are agricultural feudal worlds, but they also share another property which is of distinct military importance to the system's inhabitants.