Beyond The Event Horizon by Scott McElhaney

Author:Scott McElhaney [McElhaney, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-12-02T18:30:00+00:00

Page 303 of the ISDC Operations Manual

The ISDC does not travel through space by traditional methods of propulsion. The entire ship is orbited by a hollow titanium ring called a GF Ring or Gravitational Field Ring. The ring is attached to the ship by two support posts and it orbits the ship at a distance of almost one kilometer. Using the eight traditional propulsion boosters aboard, the ship can only achieve speeds of 400 kilometers per second. To exceed this speed, the ship makes use of the GF Ring and the gravitational field generators within the ship. The ship uses the gravitation field generators to achieve a severe gravitational well around the ship as it accelerates with the traditional boosters. The boosters can be shut off once the warp surrounding the ship becomes one-tenth of one percent of light speed. At that point, the ship will proceed solely on the gravitational well it created in space. It is comparable to a surfer who has created a large wave then simply rides it in the direction it has been aimed. The gravitational field generators can deepen the well until it has reached 99 percent light speed. Usually the acceleration process takes up to a year, but deceleration can be done in half of the time and with almost no fuel consumption. It’s just a matter of stopping the “wave” at the right time and using the pull of a large planet for braking. These six months become the most trying for the ship’s navigator.

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