NationStates Jolt Archive

The components and blueprints of the warp drive purchased from Huntaer were neatly laid out. They had successfully built and designed an alcubierre warp drive.

Comparison charts of the technology used in building the Heim drive and the Alcubierre warp drive had been laid out.

They had had to use cryogenically cooled antideuterium in a gravitophotonic repulsor containment field to create enough power for the new drive to run.

The first tests of the new drive had been with a probe at the edge of the galaxy. After several failed attempts of sending probes into hyperspace, one had come out intact. They had successfully used a alcubierre warp field in hyperspace to accelerate the probe to staggering speeds. The other probes had simply disappeared.

After several more replicated attempts with probes, they had managed to send probes regularly into and out of space with the combined drive field.

If their calculations were correct, they had surpassed ten times the speed of warp factor 9, or 7,290 c in a single jump. The nearest galaxy would be a six month trip away...

OOC: This would be a variant of the slipstream drive used in Voyager.

The Protoss wish to partake in this research, for we haven't used slipspace, or hyperspace drives in our vehicles for a long time. We wish to contribute.

We will gladly accept partners in this particular endeavor. We are sending over some papers which describe the physics behind the two drives to Toori.

Alcubierre Warp Drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Heim Drive

http://www.hpcc-space.de/publications/documents/aiaa2004-3700-a4.pdf

We are essentially activating a warp bubble inside higher dimensional space or Heim Space. Much of this experimental.

We would like different experimental descriptions of the results as well as technological offshoots.

We are also working on a combined repulsor field and energy field defensive system.

Several scientists sat quietly around a table discussing the various things which they had observed.

No computer they could manufacture could make exact predictions of where the probes would end up if the probes deviated from a straightline course in hyperspace with the massive speeds involved.

They had to make a series of shorter jumps to be able to predict the location of the probes when they reentered normal space.

The problem of mass shadows or crossing the exact point of space of another vessel would cause both ships to explode. This would limit using the drive to deep space, and extrasolar maneuvers.

They had gotten some strange readings from when the probes used their bell quantum tunneling ansibles-- a form of near simultaneous communication to relay their location when they exited hyperspace. Some had appeared in a quasi two dimensional universe with very little in it. Another was moving around inside a bubble universe approximately 300 meters across.

They had also successfully run a warp powered ship through a wormhole considerable increasing transit time between entry points. As long as the warp bubble did not touch the edges of the wormhole it worked very well.

They staged an accident in deep space where a warp powered probe smashed into the internal edges of the tunnel in a stargate causing it to collapse around the warp bubble and explode with fairly devastating effects.

After examining the two drives, the component parts were compared. The main advantage of the the warp drive was the matter antimatter assembly, the ability to generate much higher energy densities than the Heim drive.

The Heim drive engine ran off a deuterium deuterium fusion reaction. The warp drive ran off a deuterium antideuterium mix.

In contrast, the Heim drive had superior containment devices, gravity fields, repulsor fields, and gravity control devices. It could contain fusion reactions in repulsor field bottles.

The combined drive would have a higher energy density, and better containment than both the hyperspace drive and the warp drive.

Material recieved. We wish to test this technology in the Rhen system. We wish you to meet us there to prosede with testing. (ooc: yes, I spelt procede wrong) We may find better advantages when combining our technology together.


Toori ships participating:
-ARTSCS 155072- The Glave (ship class: Toori Dreadnaught heavy attack cruiser/weapons platform)
-PSV K273- The Gantrathor II (ship class: Protoss Carrier)
-ARTSCS 103906- The Jack (ship class: Toori Juggernaught heavy attack friggate)


-Preator Mob'Uur-
Executive Officer
Toori Scientific Reasearch Group

We are glad to meet you in the Rhen system. We will be sending four transports with various probes and other components for the drives (Heavily armored ramships), and three escorts to protect against piracy, a fighter carrier, an observation and instrumentation carrier, and a spinal column gunship. We look forward to working with you closely.

Regards, Bernard Cruonis, Minister of Science

IC Secret: We are also going to send in a cloaked detector probe before we enter the Rhen system to check for trouble.

To: Bernard Cruonis, Minister of Science.
From: John Helmutt, Head Administrator of The Urgustanian Aeronautics & Astronomy Institute (UAAI).

Although we are not ones to be involved in foreign space affairs, We believe that this project may be beneficial to faster travel through the instellar medium. We would like to offer the services of the qualified members of our institute in the use of this new technology. We also will acknowledge your decision to reject this offer if you do not find qualified enough as we understand that such technology is beyond most peoples' capacity. If you choose to acknowledge our decision with 'Yes' then we shall waste no time in sending some of our Dreadnaughts that had seen action to quell revolts within our provinces. We wish you the best during the tests of the warp drive and hope that no casualties occur.

(End Message)

To: Urgustania
From: Bernard Cruonis, Minister of Science

We are willing to accept peaceful observers for the tests. We would ask you to send an observer with a single dreadnaught.

One of our first goals is to send an intergalactic probe to a near galaxy.

The engineering technicians and engineers examined six of the warp engines they had bought and disassembled from Kormanthor-- 3 heavy cargo transport engines, and 3 colonial transport warp engines. They also had the remains of 8 military class warp engines purchased from Huntaer.

They had a variety of assembly equipment in the hangar bay of the carrier and in the holds of the ramships. A variety of heim toruses, lay disassembled. Massive rings laid out in patterns.

Worker bots, technicians, and scientists moved in the hangar checking and testing equipment. Datapads hummed and testing equipment clicked and made various noises.

They had assembled three of the new combined technology engines and were testing the components.

Incoming transmission - origin. . . . . . .unknown - processing. . . . . . . . . . . .source of transmission arriving from outside of the galaxy. . . . . . . . . .decrypting transmission.

To the scientific minds of the Comminality, my name is Dr. Joseph Kleiner of the Copen Galactic Protectorate's Exploration, Research, and Developement branch. I offer greetings from outside of your galaxy, and I believe that I may be of assistance to your developement of your 'hyper warp' drive.

I can provide an extremely powerful energy source in the form of a Reflex Furnace Reactor. The Reflex Furnace Reactor is a generator that runs on what we call Protoculture. Protoculture is plant that grows natively and unrestricted on many of the planets within our galaxy, and has even provided us the means to travel outside of our own galaxy (which we do on a very regular basis).

Should you be willing to accept my offer, I can assure you that you will not be disappointed with the results of this new source of energy. An average Reflex Furnace Reactor has a life span of two hundred years, and has enough power to generate the necessary energy for ten percent of an M-class planet.

Please reply on this frequency if you are willing to obtain help. I have already prepared the necessary equipment, blue prints, and supplies that you will need in advance.

From: Bernard Cruonis, Science Minister of the Commonalitarianism

While such a plant sounds intriguing, we find it to be a potentially source of energy, with a few common weeds, you could destroy a whole world. The potential danger is too much. You of course are free to observe the proceedings.

My apologies. I believe I was not specific enough on how we harvest the Protoculture plants. The plant itself can not provide the energy. In order to obtain the energy, one must process the seeds that it fruits. We can provide the necessary training for such harvesting and processing. Again, I apologize for not being more specific.

Again, the transmission was sent from an unknown location from outside of the galaxy.

Ah, the seeds make the energy culture very interesting. We must give this some more thought.

Regards,

Bernard Cruonis



OOC:
Please check the earlier links. There is a bit of hard science mixed in with this. The Heim drive principles are being checked in the laboratory. Already there are some interesting things here. Heim theory is a branch of physics with some real applications. This is a ridiculous thought experiment.

I really do like the seeds idea though. ;) . This is from Robotech, the Invid. It is the Flower of Life, some kind of interdimensional super energy flower.

Alcubierre Warp Drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Heim Drive

http://www.hpcc-space.de/publication...04-3700-a4.pdf