Pak Protecters in GURPS

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Nope.
Anyway, my memory of the story is that the Kzinti were using a "gravity polarizer" (which they may have stolen from the Kdatlyno). There ship was able to maneuver to rendevous in deep space with the Human STL ship.

In PROTECTOR, it says "the gravity polarizer would not lift him against gravity" and it's stated that the ARMs are unable to turn it off in order to remove the ship from Mars for study. "The gravity polarizer seemed beyond human understanding" so that explains why they are not using it 250 years later when the Kzin find the Angel's Pencil in "The Warriors". This is also in interstellar space and the Kzin are doing hundreds of G's, so this gravity planer seems distinct from the Pak's gravity polarizer.

IIRC, "The Survivor" in Man-Kzin Wars IV reveals that the Kzinti got their tech by serving and then overthrowing the Jotoks; Kdatlynos were a later conquest.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Kzinti STL flight was the gravity polarizer,

What the Kzinti use is also referred to as an induced gravity drive and a gravity planer.