If having downed shields prevents you from entering Quantum Travel will a ship be able to remotely 'hack' another ship's shields to temporarily go down or reboot as to force the ship of a Quantum Leap? Likewise, would it be possible to use something like a probe or other mass (like my ship) to interrupt the course of a ship in Quantum Travel to render similar results?asked by CommodoreFly
TL;DRHacking or electronic warfare that drops a ship's shields would stop it using quantum drive, and mass in a ship's path would pull it out of quantum travel, though whether the first 2.0 version includes this is unconfirmed.
Yes, we've talked about having the ability beyond things like EMP like electronic warfare and hacking other ships, disabling systems or interfering with systems and so if you manage to bring the shields by doing something like that yes it would stop the ship from going to Quantum drive. Also the whole point of having the Quantum drive and Quantum Travel you can't have objects in your path because you're just going in a straight line and going very fast so if you are in the way of a ship going into Quantum Travel or there is something with mass like a probe or whatever in the way of the travel then yes it would pull that person out of Quantum Travel and that is the whole idea. So that will definitely be active in the PU, i'm not sure about the very first version of 2.0 we'll do that I would actually have to check thats a later stage PU but that is the whole idea of the design, so there you go!