Rationalizing a Firefly - Serenity type setting

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

There's no physics that says it can't work, though, either.

Thus ''looks like."




One thing to say in favor of your model/approach is this:

The setting already has gravitic tech. That's used instead of spin or acceleration simulated gravity vessels and space stations, or so it seems. And IIRC, the actual drive system of the Firefly-class vessel works through gravity manipulation. It also seems that the terraforming uses gravtics. And wasn't there an episode in which some sort of invisible gravity "clamp" grounded the Serenity?


If one's going to use gravitic miracle tech, I'd mine that vein for various applications, rather than toss in a lot of other stuff.

• Grav ripple comms
  
• Grav on vessels for in system travel/slower STL
  
• contragrav air cars
  
• grav assisted terraforming
  
• your fast grav STL

I suppose they cannot micronize this tech, as we don't see it used in things like hand weapons or personal protection.