Troublesome technology

[Loser]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Terrene/Contra-Terrene, a more accurate term for what is often called matter/anti-matter (since both are actually matter, simply in different forms). The reaction between the two forms liberates all the energy both contain, making it by far the most efficient and least polluting energy source available. For this reason, T/CT is used almost exclusively for planetary and large-craft energy needs.

Where did that come from?

That is excellent.

Is that from SE III?

[Fyron]

I think he just made it up.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Terrene/Contra-Terrene, a more accurate term for what is often called matter/anti-matter (since both are actually matter, simply in different forms). The reaction between the two forms liberates all the energy both contain, making it by far the most efficient and least polluting energy source available. For this reason, T/CT is used almost exclusively for planetary and large-craft energy needs.

Where did that come from?

That is excellent.

Is that from SE III?

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Hehe almost made be look smart eh? Well maybe not. OK well I stole it from here:

http://www.ecauldron.com/terranempire/concordt.php

[Jake Monroe]

Originally posted by Artscrafter:

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me... I'm waiting for the Heisenberg (sp) Improbability Drive

I once sort of BS'ed up a name for an even more advanced engine for a mod: the Tesseracted Relativity Engine. (Yeah, I know, the name needs a lot of work.) Basically the idea was that the engine magnified the time distortion effect at relativistic speeds to include the outside perspective. The effect would be that the actual time a voyage took would be somewhere between the time its speed would suggest and the time it seemed to take from the perspective of the crew.

I have no idea how that would look, I just pulled it out of my arse

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I actually have something similiar, but I didn't have to pull it out of my arse. It's a Temporal device that works like the solar sail, gives bonus movement. It's called the Zero Drive and works together with the engines to bend time in a way that allows the ship to, in simplistic terms, move faster. I got it from a story someone I know wrote some time ago.

[Loser]

an e-mail reply from Aaron
Those three types of engines give you additional movement for your ships. You need to make sure that all of the engines on the ship are of the same type to receive the bonus.

The idea behind the engines are from science fiction books and magazines. Contra-Terrene is the use of anti-matter that is brought in contact with normal matter to create a powerful energy release. Jacketed Photon it a method where photon movement is harnessed to propel the ship forward. A Quantum engine uses a quantum singularity (a tiny black hole) to bend gravity and propel the ship forward.

Aaron

[atari_eric]

Originally posted by Loser:

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an e-mail reply from Aaron
A Quantum engine uses a quantum singularity (a tiny black hole) to bend gravity and propel the ship forward.

Aaron

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You mean there's a black hole inside my engine? Get it out, Norton, get it out!