02-12-2018, 09:57 AM | #21 |
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Re: Grav Pong
Artificial gravity created by the grav plates is a separate system to the acceleration compensation. They are more than likely based on similar principles - both applications of magic gravitics technology.
Artificial gravity appears to be limited to 1g in CT sources, while acceleration compensation has to be capable of coping with the full maneuver capability of the ship. Also note that artificial gravity is not the same as real, so there is the possibility that the grav modules used on grav belts will not work in an artificial gravitic environment... |
02-12-2018, 10:04 AM | #22 | |
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Actual gravity is unlimited in range and omnidirectional but decreases in intensity as it goes. You just can't tell the difference between 4000 miles and 4000 miles and 6 feet. "Artificial gravity" is limited in range and directional but constant in intensity. Grav plates pull down only in one direction only rather than in a sphere but are constant in pull over their range (which stops more or less at the ceiling). As Rupert indicated, an artificial gravity negator is conceptually possible but not directly related to anything that overcomes natural gravity.
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02-13-2018, 05:11 AM | #23 | |
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02-13-2018, 07:39 AM | #24 | |
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02-13-2018, 07:55 PM | #25 | |
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Militaries will have them, pirates will have them, salvage crews will have them (to counter malfunctioning plates in wrecks), ships engineering departments would have them (to work on their own malfunctioning plates) law enforcement will have them. If you can build a device to mimic gravity’s effect on an object you can build a device to interfere or counter with that effect. Hostile environment suits would probably have it as a standard option. |
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02-15-2018, 03:32 AM | #26 | ||
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As for your own engineering needing them - they can just turn the plates off. But if you want grav pong to not be a thing, sure, make full-sphere instant reacting anti-gravity that works on grav plates cheap and freely available. If your players are like mine they'll find a dozen ways to wreck the game world and economy before breakfast, even with perpetual motion devices banned.
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02-15-2018, 04:10 AM | #27 |
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Re: Grav Pong
While this is true, in a setting where any ship you might board has remote control death fields available, you're either not going to engage in boarding actions, or you're going to have way of dealing with those remote control death fields.
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02-16-2018, 04:55 AM | #28 |
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Re: Grav Pong
The one I usually see is 'fry the plates before you stand on them'. It's unsubtle and it's slow, but it's sure.
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