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Phaeton99 — Project Stingray - Rift Field
Published: 2012-07-12 15:01:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 3419; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 0
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A general diagram of the experimental interstitial-space-burrowing "jump drive" — essentially a directed, artificial wormhole — in action.The ship is also equipped with conventional warp drive (in the wing tips) and impulse for sublight travel.
Stingray is a collaborative development project with fellow DA denizen Lucide0 based upon his original concept and destined for JoAT submission.
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A ship that produces it's own transwarp conduit. No wonder you need so many reactors pumping out power......
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In simplest terms, it is the boring of an artificial wormhole (not to be confused with exploiting the "Quantum Slipstream"). The basic methodology has been successfully applied by such races as the Borg (in the form of established "tunnels" linked to "hubs), but not in a "live" mode, i.e. generated on-demand to the any destination per vessel. Although presenting the potential of incredible reach — even to the extent of intergalactic or further — the technique is extremely dangerous due not only the incredible stresses it places upon a ship, but also due to difficulties inherent to calculating a nominally safe and navigable route through the turbulent depths of subspace. For the greater part, it proves to be a fatally unsuccessful mode of transportation for any who dared attempt it...
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makes sense. So the rift is basically an artificially generated wormhole with a potentially enormous distance, but the ship needs to be properly built to withstand the stresses similar to the problems with quantum slipstream?
Thanks.
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A different set of problems compared to QS travel, to the extent that one cannot simply put a rift boring system on a conventional ship and have it work (which means the typical dramaturgical practice of "instant upgrades" would not be possible) — unles one intends a messy suicide.
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I think I can imagine - I saw the blueprints, the shape of the ship was...unconventional.
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And its refined progeny, more so.
I suppose I simply do not think it reasonable that every fleet ship from now until eternity must be a variation on the same conventional configurations as established by TOS. Tech changes, and the future has a way of being almost unrecognizable.
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warp grills, for a moment I thought it said gills.
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They do have "gills" just not right there.
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The idea is not exactly new — wormhole boring is a rather old concept, after all — so the trick is to make it seem fresh in the execution of it.
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I liked the the whole concept right when I heard it and as it was refined it just got better. but the time away from the stingray has also let me look at it with fresh eyes. and every step has just made the ship that much better. This is one of the main reasons why I have started to view the stingray as ours instead of mine. you may have bin working with my ideas and concepts but you also added your own our shared ideas have broought the stingray farther than I could have ever dreamed.
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Chalk that up to an obsessive tendency to not let claims go unexplained: I had to conceive of how things worked once it was decided what things could do.
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This was briliant. haveing the field engulf the ship made so much more sense tha projecting it and creating a rift to enter. This way seems like it would be easier on the ship since the entire structure is engulfed as apposed the the ship trying to fly into the jump rift wich I always thought had to tax a jumpships hull integrity to the limits. But this way it's like the ship it self is submerged as aposed to diving and the hull geomtry is a way of maintaining structrul integrity and to help it move through the worm hole it creates. basicly more hydrodynamic than aerodynamic. and instead of it just looking diffrent to distribute various forces that press on the ship it now has the shape becouse every curve and angle and evry peace is designed on this thing basicly being fired from a gun through a wormhole like the shape of submarines and sutch.
absalutloy brilant
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Last time you looked at this you were very ill, so i should expect that you only appreciate the nuances now.
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