I have just read news that NASA tests microwave engine that produces fuel out of empty space, and finds that it works. Will the devs be considering this, or any other, future engine type that could be discovered or earned as a major achievement reward to reduce costs of space travel?asked by Noxheart
TL;DRChris Roberts says they find real-world discoveries like the EM Drive cool and will probably borrow such elements into the fiction, possibly with a future engine breakthrough, upgradeable engines and findable alien technology, with nothing firmly promised.
Yeah, I think this is the EM Drive stuff that's just been making the rounds recently, that was invented by a UK scientist / engineer and then everyone said he was crazy, and now they've just sort of confirmed it with some independent tests (or with a similar device with those NASA tests).So I would say that we all kinda read and watch that stuff and think it's cool, and the more sort of things that sound like science fiction and turn out to be true, we probably will sort of borrow elements of it and weave it into our fiction for our sort of stuff. And, you know, potentially longer-term we may decide "oh yeah, well there's a new engine breakthrough" and you can buy that from, you know, whichever the engine manufacturer is, and perhaps it has some fiction. But we'll definitely have some areas where you'll be able to upgrade your engines, and maybe plug in a different device. We've been talking about some alien technology that you'll be able to potentially find out there in the Persistent Universe, and if you can bind that and blend that into your items it may be able to improve them. So that's the answer on that question!