Nov 19, 2020 6:02 pm
The hyperdrive:
The hyperdrive is the only known thechnology that allow for faster-than-light travel. Well faster-than-light in our 4-dimensional space.
The way it works is that it transports the ship into a room that was unimaginatively named 'hyperroom'. This hyperroom is a space that is seperated from our normal 4D space-time with a unique set of physics that's quite different from what we know.
You can travel much faster than light in the hyperroom, then jump back into normal space and thus travel several lightyears in a matter of weeks.
Unfortunatly any matter that enters the hyperroom is expelled from it again if there isn't any force counteracting it.
This force is provided my the exotic matter in the hyperdrive. The hyperdrive 'pushes' the ship back into the hyperrroom and as long as it runs the ship can stay there.
But the force with which the hyperroom tries to expel matter grows exponentially with the mass of the ship.
This provides a natural barrier for the size of hyperroom capable ships. With very large hyperdrives a ship can weigh about 100,000 metric tons and still be hyperroom capable but anything heavier than that would result in a ship that is basically just a giant hyperdrive
Another thing that interferes with hyperdrive-capabilities are gravitational fields. Strong gravitational fields like from a planet or a large moon prevent a ship from jumping into and staying in the hyperroom.
Therefore all ships that try to use their hyperdrive have to fly away from any source of strong gravitational fields in order to jump.
Interestingly even if a ship is in the hyperroom any strong gravitational fields can pull it out of it.
Because of this the course of a ship through the hyperroom has to be carefully plotted in order to keep clear of any massive objects, like stars, planets, black holes and the like. This careful avoidance of massive objects leads to a somewhat inaccurate point of arrival at the destination. Even very good pilots usually can only travel to a target with an accuracy of about 1 million kilometers
The hyperdrive is the only known thechnology that allow for faster-than-light travel. Well faster-than-light in our 4-dimensional space.
The way it works is that it transports the ship into a room that was unimaginatively named 'hyperroom'. This hyperroom is a space that is seperated from our normal 4D space-time with a unique set of physics that's quite different from what we know.
You can travel much faster than light in the hyperroom, then jump back into normal space and thus travel several lightyears in a matter of weeks.
Unfortunatly any matter that enters the hyperroom is expelled from it again if there isn't any force counteracting it.
This force is provided my the exotic matter in the hyperdrive. The hyperdrive 'pushes' the ship back into the hyperrroom and as long as it runs the ship can stay there.
But the force with which the hyperroom tries to expel matter grows exponentially with the mass of the ship.
This provides a natural barrier for the size of hyperroom capable ships. With very large hyperdrives a ship can weigh about 100,000 metric tons and still be hyperroom capable but anything heavier than that would result in a ship that is basically just a giant hyperdrive
Another thing that interferes with hyperdrive-capabilities are gravitational fields. Strong gravitational fields like from a planet or a large moon prevent a ship from jumping into and staying in the hyperroom.
Therefore all ships that try to use their hyperdrive have to fly away from any source of strong gravitational fields in order to jump.
Interestingly even if a ship is in the hyperroom any strong gravitational fields can pull it out of it.
Because of this the course of a ship through the hyperroom has to be carefully plotted in order to keep clear of any massive objects, like stars, planets, black holes and the like. This careful avoidance of massive objects leads to a somewhat inaccurate point of arrival at the destination. Even very good pilots usually can only travel to a target with an accuracy of about 1 million kilometers