What about our fen who have built their real-space drives based on David Weber's Honor Harrington novels?
These are reactionless acceleration drives with accelerations in the hundreds of gees, due to advanced gravitics...
The interior of the ship is "inertialess" in that the interior is set at human-comfortable levels of gravity, but the drives produce two gravitic bands along the central vertical plane of the ship that form a wedge shape. Thes are what allow the ship to reach ludicrous fractions of c. Fortunately, the "gravband" tech forms a force field around the ship, with weak points and strong.
The ventral and dorsal ridges of the ship are protected by the (for all intents and purposes) IMPERVIOUS gravbands. The broadsides of the ship are slightly more permeable, allowing for weapons fire from the ship. and there are two points with "normal" vulnerability: the nose and "up the skirt" portions of the grav wedge.
Neither the Pinafore nor the Pearl Forrester use this tech, as it requires more number-crunching to build than a "warp" drive.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
These are reactionless acceleration drives with accelerations in the hundreds of gees, due to advanced gravitics...
The interior of the ship is "inertialess" in that the interior is set at human-comfortable levels of gravity, but the drives produce two gravitic bands along the central vertical plane of the ship that form a wedge shape. Thes are what allow the ship to reach ludicrous fractions of c. Fortunately, the "gravband" tech forms a force field around the ship, with weak points and strong.
The ventral and dorsal ridges of the ship are protected by the (for all intents and purposes) IMPERVIOUS gravbands. The broadsides of the ship are slightly more permeable, allowing for weapons fire from the ship. and there are two points with "normal" vulnerability: the nose and "up the skirt" portions of the grav wedge.
Neither the Pinafore nor the Pearl Forrester use this tech, as it requires more number-crunching to build than a "warp" drive.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll