[Desdinova]

sci-fi is full of gravity related devices. star wars' yuuzhan vong ships use gravity as propulsion, defense and weapon. star trek used it for gravity aboard ships.

as defense: gravity can be used to distort the path a incoming weapon travels causing it to miss you, regardless of energy or projectile. using a high gravity focus you can actually suck incoming atks into it. using a variation of anti-gravity you can form a shield which will repulse incoming atks. as gravity inside a ship it can be used against boarding parties you can either increase gravity imobilizing them or change the direction of "up" causing them to fall to the ceilling or wall.

as a weapon: see graviton hellbore in seiv for 1 thing. again using a focused gravity source you could create a short range device that crushes enemy ships from the high gravity. also can be used as a tractor/repulsor device which can move objects around or can be used to slow down a target making it easier to hit. can also be used as a sheild depleting device.

propulsion: thruster plates that can absorb graviton particles from one direction and project them out another or by creating a gravity well in the direction you want to travel and your ship constantly falls towards it.

miscellaneous: using a variation of the grav plates for gravity you can create minor inertial dampening devices allowing increased combat maneuverability.

[ January 07, 2003, 19:09: Message edited by: desdinova ]