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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
These days, there's less perceived need, unless the explanation ties into other things as well. An example of the latter is the "impeller wedge" used by David Weber as the technology for FTL travel in the Honor Harrington books. Weber is retelling the Napoleonic Wars in space, and his starships are the equivalent of the old three masted ships of the line. He uses his FTL method to let him do things like having ships of the line drawn up stationary relative to each other in a "wall of battle", whaling away with lasers, grasers, and missiles in best Napoleonic War fashion.
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David Weber moved away from the Napoleonic template in his HH series many books ago, and now he is both starting the complete upheaval of the established order in his Universe and introducing both new weapon systems that are making the wall of battle less relevant, and new ftl travel that we have no clue for now what's going to do - the missile pods and Apollo on the good guys side and the new Spider Drive on the *real* bad guys side