Another Bendalloy FTL Theory

[Fallen Rope he/him]

This theory is more of an idea, but I think is an original idea.

What if a atium bendalloy alloy compresses space instead of time. This would allow Scadialans to make ftl devices, and they would work away from the planet, as the atium acts as a power source.

[Kurkistan he/him]

Perhaps.

 

We do have a WoB that uses the word "propelled" when discussing how Allomantic-FTL spaceships would work, which suggests something to do with movement rather than just teleporting the ship about in spacetime willy-nilly.

 

How exactly do you see this space-compression as working? So the space within the bubble is faster to traverse or what?

Edited January 1, 2015 by Kurkistan

[Fallen Rope he/him]

Yes, I now realise it is a bit similar to bendalloy, but you would not have the extra thinking time. It might actual be worse than normal bendalloy. This theory is probably wrong, Ill just have to wait for Mistborn 3.

Edited January 2, 2015 by Fallen Rope

[Kurkistan he/him]

Hold on a moment. All's not necessarily lost.

 

If in fact such an alloy was "like bendalloy, but without the 'time' thing", that might actually prove quite useful for FTL, depending on how it worked.

 

The way my current theories of FTL work requires some rather large oddities in that you need to establish radically different frames of references for cadmium vs. bendalloy time bubbles, but something that "compressed" space somehow without running into frame of reference shenanigans could potentially get rid of that need, and take out the biggest assumption (that you can manipulate where bubbles are "anchored" so easily) of my model.