On 10/15/09 4:14 PM, Jon Lang wrote: [snip]
Good question. How about this: instead of a hard-wired gravity-well disruption effect, the drive has two power requirements: one is used to maintain the integrity of the warp bubble, and is directly proportional to the tidal forces acting on said bubble. The other produces the drive's thrust, and is proportional to the thrust provided. The former aspect would mean that maintaining a warp bubble in a gravity well would have prohibitively high power requirements, while ships in interplanetary and interstellar space could maintain it virtually for free.
That would be slick, because then you can have military ships, scout ships and smuggler ships that can start using the drive early, maybe even while still in atmosphere, as long as they are equipped with really big engines.
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