Wasn't one of the starting assumptions that handwavium doesn't do dimensional wonkiness? I may be wrong on that... but regardless, yeah, I think it's probably too early for something quite like that. A possible alternative, at least for the atmosphere-tossing thing, could be a strange variation on the speed drive - it forms a drive field around a volume that does not include the drive unit itself, then projects whatever is there out to $RANGE, where it decelerates back to rest relative to the nearest significant object. Range here would probably be on the LEO-to-Moon order at most and you'd have to feed it a huge amount of power in a burst when the field is created dependent on size and mass, but as a way to get the mail through in orbit or launch escape pods it could have potential. It doesn't work as a weapon, because if the course intersects anyhting significant enough to not just bounce like a micrometeorite the field is disrupted as if it had reached the end of its run.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows