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Re: Chicago-Class Starship
Where are the bussard collectors? Are they just the little red knobules on the sides of the nacelle forward of the grille?
BTW, what time period is this from?
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Re: Chicago-Class Starship
Yes, the little red things on the sides are the Bussard collectors. Time period is early 26th century. It has an advanced drive that when outside of a galaxy it can travel fast enough to reach another galaxy in weeks, rather than eons. The "hollow" ends of the nacelles are part of that drive system, which is why the Bussards are the way they are.
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Re: Chicago-Class Starship
I'd be interested in hearing how that drive works. I know that the Transpace drive used in the Avenger class uses Barbatic radiation to form a warp bubble that causes the starship to slide through subspace into transpace.
Note: In typical warp travel, velocity in c is equal to approximately the cube of the warp factor. In transpace, velocity in c is equal to ten to the warp factor (a logarithmic scale). Does this drive use any new exotic particles or does it work with a new configuration of components?
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Re: Chicago-Class Starship
New configuration of components, using conventional warp drive (within the confines of a galaxy) it can maintain higher-end warp speeds longer than her 24c counterpart. (Thus keeping the galaxy "small" enough for effective story telling) but the drive that can get her between galaxies uses the unstable protomatter with antimatter to generate the power it needs to go fast enough to travel between galaxies. It creates such a turbulant, unstable, warp field that it's very susceptible to large gravity wells meaning it cannot be used inside of galaxies.
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Re: Chicago-Class Starship
That is looking good.
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