Warp Gates; Using and oversize railgun to fire ships at high speed towards remote locations (stations, moons or planets).

[BadgerBadger]

As an idea to cut down on travel time to some distance location, An idea based on current technologies to to create a giant rail gun that fires the players ship towards the remote location. For the slowing down part (besides impact) you could use the existing drag system to slow players to a manageable speed by the time they reach the destination or use another magnetic rail system at the receiving end to catch them.

 

[Brushes]

It'd be real easy to clutter trash at any point along the trajectory to destroy ships in enroute.

 

[BadgerBadger]

Is that a bad thing? dump a few asteroids in the trajectory and then salvage the remains.

 

[Toka-MK]

Is that a bad thing? dump a few asteroids in the trajectory and then salvage the remains.

Then nobody would use the service if safety is not guaranteed. Imagine if real-life airplanes can be shot down by anybody with a sling shot—nobody would dare to fly on it.

 

[BadgerBadger]

I think some people still would. When faced with the problem of getting a fleet from point A to point B quickly without requiring hours/days of fly time and more fuel then you can carry then you may not have another option, you would most likely just send a scout (or your least liked friend) first to check that it is safe

 

[Mr.Silver]

I'm sure warp gates and everything will exist highly in the future since its gonna be a mmo tag