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Types of sublight and FTL drives?
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Zakalwe
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It's impossible to go FTL using gravitons unless you develop a truly strange system.
Gravimetric drives are usually used as a common way of going STL - effectively falling through space - although sometimes the technology involved can be quite advanced. NovaCorp in particular prides itself with high tech gravity manipulation.
Gravimetric drives are usually used as a common way of going STL - effectively falling through space - although sometimes the technology involved can be quite advanced. NovaCorp in particular prides itself with high tech gravity manipulation.
I'd always pictured a gravity-based FTL drive as working sort of like a space fold, only taking relativity into account not to mention the sheer raw power that would be needed to generate a gravity nexus that strong. Look at it this way: instead of folding space, the gravity FTL drive would squeeze it together until the distance between two points was shortened considerably. When the drive is disengaged space/time returns to normal with no ill effects.
Zakalwe
Inactive Member
*shrugs* What you're suggesting there is a warp drive based on space-time manipuation through gravity. The problem with that is that it's vastly inefficient in comparison to the drives currently available, and quite likely to make a black hole and destroy you.
