Star Force: Origin Series Box Set (9-12) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2016-01-17T05:00:00+00:00

Eleven days later the Cobra arrived in low Mars orbit along with 5 other inter-planetary starships, all flown by remote pilots onboard the personnel transport. All six ships were the same size, each a third larger than a Jaguar, with the difference being that only the personnel transport had the gravity cylinders, while the drone ships had additional zero g cargo bays to hold more than 3x the supplies onboard Terry’s ship, which looked like an elongated blockade runner from Star Wars with the two gravity cylinders stacked end on end in the middle/front of the ship behind a hammerhead zero g front portion.

The aft of the ship contained the cargo containers, ample fuel supply, and engine bank, which held a cluster of Star Force’s most powerful plasma engines, which were needed to get the inter-planetary starship up to sufficient speed to travel from one micro-system to another in a matter of days as opposed to the months it had taken the first American expedition to reach Mars.

The other four Cobra variants, designated as Cobra-B’s, had additional cargo compartments where the gravity cylinders were missing all the way up to the hammerhead forward module, which was covered in thick armor plating to catch or deflect small scale debris impacts resulting from the higher speeds of travel the ship was capable of.

While from a mathematical perspective speed was technically a relative measurement, within the presence of a gravity well all matter tended to move within a certain range, with those traveling faster eventually leaving the orbital tracks and flying off into interstellar space while those moving slower would eventually be swallowed up by the well itself.

Most material in orbit around Sol was traveling in the same speed band, meaning that the faster the starships traveled, the greater the speed of collision with dust, sand, or even pebble-sized debris…which could do serious damage to the hull of a lightly armored ship.

To diminish those odds, the hammerhead ‘plows’ had been created to take the brunt of the impacts, with no critical systems being built directly behind the armor. Instead there were only redundant systems, which the ship could afford to lose if the armor was breached, making the whole forward section of the ship expendable in order to protect the lighter armored sections further aft.

One drawback of the design was the fact that when arriving at a destination the ship had to flip over and face engine-first in order to decelerate. Because of this there was additional armor surrounding the engines, but it was impossible to cover the exhaust vents themselves, though it was theorized that exhaust plume would interfere with debris well ahead of the ship, given that it would expand out for hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometers with sufficient mass to impact and deflect potential debris away from the ship’s flight line.

Given that was a best-case scenario, the Cobra-class ships were equipped with 18 plasma engines, ensuring that even if some became damaged, there would be others left operational to navigate with.

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