I am curious about the Quantum Drive (QD). Is it envisioned to have the QD be 'steerable' in the future (to be able to change your heading while traveling in QD), or is the QD meant to always be straight line travel only.asked by Steve Hunter

No, the quantum drive is always meant to be straight line travel. You are- you are travelling at such great speed that any course deviation would either have to be done either incredibly slowly or you'd basically be turned to jelly from the g-forces that are being exerted. Because point-two the speed of light – that's very fast.And the idea is that it's just a space line shots- you'll need to line up where you go and if any large object gets in your way like a ship or gravity well or anything like that- celestial body- you get pulled out of quantum drive because it's essentially a hand-wavy science fiction phrase- it creates a gravity bubble around you that also helps accelerate you up to a really fast speed and then you do the opposite because- I mean, even just going from two-three-four-five hundred meters per second to point-two the speed of light in whatever it is- a few seconds- is an incredible amount of acceleration so unless you're in your own gravity bubble you'd still be squashed and it only works basically in a straight line.Which is cool because it allows emergent gameplay- see if you know which direction someone's flying you could track their quantum jump and radio ahead, don't forget that's at the speed of light instead of 0.2c though depending how far they're going you'd have to have a distance for someone to have their trajectory and you could deploy say a interdiction device which we think of like a gravity well that will pull you out in the appropriate place and then interdict the person that's flying it. There's a lot of cool stuff and we're playing with all those aspects but it will definitely be straight line.