Talk:Escape pod

The nature of the escape pod in Firstborn irked me from the outset. Now that an article is up, it has to dealt with.

The problem that I haven't addressed yet in the article is its nature of travel. Its interior and functions seem slightly different from Rosenberg's in Queen of Blades, but they can concivably be the same design. However, the question that goes unanswered in Golden's story is how the escape pod is able to travel from the Gray Tiger to Dead Man's Rock without entering warp space.

It seems that the escape pod remains in real-space the whole time, as more than once, Jake looks at the "darkness of space" (or words to that effect). If the pod had FTL abilities, I'm sure Dahl would have used them immediatly rather than flying erratically to avoid detection, only heading straight to DMR after recieving Stewart's message. Fuel is also an issue here, or was according to the narrative.

However, if no warp capability is possessed, how did Dahl and Jake arrive? Unless Nemaka and DMR are in the same star system or the Gray Tiger moved into or near DMR's system before the pair's escape, there's no way a craft could travel light years in a reasonable timeframe.

Anyway, how should this be approached? Should it be assumed that pods can travel through warp space and that Golden forgot to portray warp space in a manner more in-keeping with what we've seen in cinematics? That DMR and Nemaka are in the same system or that the Gray Tiger moved? Or simply regard the issue as a giant plot hole and take the travel from Nemaka to DMR as a matter of Deus Ex Machina?--Hawki 08:49, 5 November 2008 (UTC)