[Looks like this was meant as a reply to the list, and got just to me by
mistake -- James]
>At very high tech levels you can send entire planets through jump; its
>an engineering problem rather than a theoretical one. Conceivably, you could
>have some spare grid, put it around an interesting asteroid, modify your
>computers and jump with both your ship and the asteroid you had found.
That would take some fuel! Send Earth through hyperspace - use Jupiter as a
fuel tank. But hauling smaller loads around can be done. In the old Supplement
9, Fighting Ships, there is a jump tug which does exactly what you suggest -
puts a mesh around a load, e.g. a cargo pod or a small asteroid, then pulls it
through a jump.
"Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott
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