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Name that drive!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Omnivore
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Which name best fits this ftl drive?

  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
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Omnivore

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Ok, I had to invent a new FTL drive for my Dark Stars ATU in order to make things fit the setting better. Only problem is, I'm horrible with names :oo:

So, welcome to the name that drive contest!

The winner will receive an all expense paid, extravagant, and totally heartfelt, thank you! :D

The details of the drive are given here. In short it's a bit of a mix of a Niven's Alderson point drive, a short legged OTU Traveller Jump drive, and a retarded variant of 2300AD's Stutterwarp.

Thanks,
Brian
 
You know very well the Hopps Drive while theoretically possible has never been demonstrated to work. There's never any fuel in the tanks and the crew is chronically inebriated.

:)
 
Okay ..Station keeping device and refueling station ..

you have not stated what fuel your using ..as to station keeping that one is simple and low tech and provides all the power the station needs ..a solar sail built of solar panels ..now we have powered the station and have its station keeping needs met easily ..the station it self can be built from any of thousands of smallish (under 1km ) asteroids floating around the solar system and voila your done and its not so fragile ..current technology allows us to build the solar sail fabric with carbon nono tubes..and the solar cells themselves can be made from self healing polymers ..(station keeping is done by adjusting the angle of the sail ..) ..as to the drive you described quantum is as good as any ...
now it would not be cheap ..and you can put this is a spot where it does not orbit ..or it can mill about merrily at Sun Earth L-4 or Sun Earth L-5 ..or Sun Venus L-4 or Sun Venus L-5 ..and your done
 
morfydd said:
Okay ..Station keeping device and refueling station ..
you have not stated what fuel your using
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There are a variety of fuels in use, the majority of spacecraft use advanced nuclear thermal reactors or some type of magnetoplasmadynamic. Both of those can use a wide variety of fuels for reaction mass though certain types are preferable for Isp or thrust - liquid hydrogen slush is a primary fuel type for Isp reasons, though long term storage is problematic. Argon is another popular reaction mass for the robotic bulk haulers. Liquid oxygen is commonly used to increase thrust with the NTRs. In some areas, methane is provided as a substitute for hydrogen although it is unlikely an area that is built up enough to have transit point stations would make much use of it.

At higher tech levels and for government and corporate spacecraft, deuterium/tritium pellets are used in inertial confinement pulse fusion engines and early fusion torches at the highest tech levels (military) use deuterium/helium-3. The fusion engines are generally only seen in the more civilized portions of the setting. The DTP fuel is particularly troublesome since the pellets require not just refining and purification but manufacture.

Of course, class A and B starports need to carry nuclear fuels as well as deuterium/tritium to refuel the fission and fusion reactors respectively during annual maintenance. But those don't need to be stocked at the transit hubs.

The FTL drives themselves do not directly use fuel, they are charged, normally over a period of hours, by the spacecraft's power plant.

Thanks,
Brian
 
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samuelvss said:
The Infinite Improbability Dual Quantum Reality Denial Device, Mark XIM, with local modifications!
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Hehehehe, sounds like something offered by a diabolical salesman to a group of slightly lower than normal intelligence alien thugs. :rofl:
 
I read the blog.

Which is why I voted for the SNAFU drive. Considering how it works and was discovered I can see it being called that by the spacers if no one else.

Laterness,
Craig.
 
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