Zack
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Negative Energy Recoil Drive:
The Negative Energy Recoil Drive evolved from the Tachyon Recoil Drive. Originally the inertia intensive particles were used for propulsion only but the design was adapted several times. Sensor systems, weapons, computer, and FTL devices all requiring tachyons in various ways were added into the design. The Recoil drive provides the tachyons, the associated negative energy fields, and the control systems for energy flow needed to run these systems.
(Tachyons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon )
Propulsion:
STL propulsion is facilitated by the Negative Energy Recoil Drive's tachyon production systems which produce large amounts of negative energy. The tachyons are channeled out the front of the craft at faster than light speeds. The natural properties of the tachyon give them vast amounts of inertia and because of their negative mass they pull the craft in the direction the tachyons are moving. The large amounts of inertia give the drive fast acceleration and low tachyon emissions making it naturally hard to detect.
In addition to conventional STL propulsion the manipulation of negative energy allows the ship to hide itself in its own bubble of space time. The engines then expand the space behind the bubbles while at the same time shrinking the space in front of the bubbles to move the ship at many times the speed of light. Because of the unique mounting system for the engines they can be almost instantly pointed in a new direction, allowing the ship to not need to be pointed forward in order to move ‘forward'.
(Source: Stop putting in links that stretch the page, Zack. )
Weaponry:
The FTL system is capable of extending itself to generate shearing effects at a distance. By artificially accelerating mass the instant it enters the bubble damaging effects can be generated by the intense heat, shearing, and force created by the FTL bubble boundary pulling on the mass that is inside the bubble and not affecting the mass outside of the bubble.
With a single negative energy recoil drive a sphere shaped shearing field is generated. The Numina has two drive systems allowing it to generate elliptical shapes, with each engine acting as a focus of the elipse. Size and shape of the bubble is extremely important because the larger the bubble the more energy is required to expand it. An elliptical bubble will effect less of an area but will expand further, faster, because of its shape. The bubble's maximum expansion speed is about equal to the FTL speed of the engines minus the space inside of the bubble.
Location: The drive system.
Primary Purpose: Anti-armor
Secondary Purpose: anti-material
Damage: 7
Area of Effect: up to 500km, decreasing with range.
Range: 1au
Rate of Fire: Continuous
Payload: Power Dependent.
Shielding:
Defensive measures are provided by the shearing effect of the FTL bubble, which serves to shear mass heading toward the ship or refract energy waves away from the ship. The drawback of this system is that energy beams entering the bubble are accelerated because the space inside the bubble is moving at a faster rate relative to the outside space. This increases the wavelengths of the energy making it more penetrating. It is not recommended to be inside of the bubble without some form of protection. This effect also provides some protection against matter copying through entanglement based teleportation by refracting the carrier medium of entanglement. The defensive capabilities also provide the ship with supercavitation capabilities within the atmosphere, greatly increasing the maximum possible speed and massively reducing friction while moving, as well as protection against scalar weapons by insulating against outside gravity.
Multiple FTL bubbles nested inside of each other are also effective at dampening the effects of anti-FTL devices by providing increasing degrees of separation from their effects and by creating areas of space in which the FTL systems can operate however in any intradiction field conflict the negative energy recoil drive's power output must remain above the output of the intradiction field to prevent the negative energy FTL fields from being disperesed by the gravity.
(Refraction on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refraction Because the FTL field would be moving at a different rate compared with space outside it would act like an object with a different refractive index.)
Sensors:
Three types of Tachyon fed sensors systems are integrated into the hardware and software of the negative energy recoil drive. Tachyon detectors embedded into the engine to monitor engine performance double as tachyon sonar systems, detecting tachyon bursts coming from outside of the ship and triangulating their location to build a picture of external negative energy content.
Negative energy flow is sensitive to gravity fields. Observation of the exact shape of the ship's own negative energy flow acts to pinpoint gravitational distortions. The result is a fairly complex but very accurate accelerometer.
Specialized sensor systems are also integrated into the power distribution systems of the engines. These sensors monitor power flow and compare it to models of what power flow should be according to bubble size and nearby gravitational fields. Because power output dramatically increases as mass enters the FTL bubble the data can be used to detect objects passing into the FTL bubble as well as the location of where they entered through calculating when each engine starts drawing more power. This can double as a sensor system by expanding a low power FTL bubble to cover a distance of near 2 AU near planets or several light years in deep space. Because of the lower intensity of the bubble it is harmless to objects and the energy saved (when compared to weaponised FTL) can be used to extend the bubble's range.
Computing:
In addition to the conventional computing systems installed in the engine to control functions a second processing system is built into the sensor systems of the engine. By precisely controlling the flow of tachyons with tachyon filtering equipment data can be sent back in time several moments. This creates a Time Loop Logic computer system out of the drive's emissions. By combining this system with the ship's sensor data a real time image of the exterior can be generated, negating the lag time of returning sensor actions. Specifically the computer attempts to predict where an object is and the sensors attempt to confirm this. The correct prediction is then sent backwards in time to the ship.
The process involves manipulating tachyons with considerable inertia. Each manipulation generates considerable heat. Heat output and computer size limits the precognitive abilities of the system, giving it at maximum output only a few seconds of lead time with increasing inaccuracy as time before the event occurs increases.
(Time Loop Logic on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_loop_logic )
Artificial Gravity:
Negative energy from the drive system is channeled over the ‘top' of the craft and then downward, permeating the ship. The resulting flow pushes everything inside the ship downward to create artificial gravity.
(Negative Mass on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_mat ... ative_mass )
Communications:
Communication hardware integrated into the drive system helps control the flow of negative energy to generate various types of subspace fields. These fields act as a carrier for an inset subspace radio. A second, directional, filter is used to guide and control a stream of tachyons. This filter imparts information onto the tachyons so that a receiver can pick up the message at a distance. This communicator works much like a laser communication device. A receiver is built into engine as well to pick up messages sent in the same way.