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- ALIEN CRAFT ENGINES
-
- THE IMPULSE PROPULSION ENGINE
-
- We didn't have much data available, (during April, 1990) about the
- "Warp Drive Operation" of the basic Rigelian Starships but The Air
- Force knows they work on the principle of PLASMA-ENERGIZED CONTAINED
- ANTIMATTER. We get the secondary impulse engine system which serves
- for use at sublight speeds. This fusion reaction is located aft of
- the main saucer command section and can propel the craft at speeds
- up to that of 75% of the speed of light. The impulse drive system
- works by channeling hot plasma energy exhaust away from the vessel.
- This plasma exhaust is not the by-product of simple plasma matter
- generated in a laboratory invironment, but high-energy plasma
- produced in a fusion-reactor containment system. Huge amounts of
- the plasma are first accelerated to high velocities along a ring
- of magnetic coils, and then injected into the space-time driver
- coils, the central component of the impulse engine system. These
- coils produce a limited distortion of the local space-time
- continuum, (not unlike that of a local stasis field) and further
- accelerate the energy and speed of the impulse engine plasmes to
- near relativistic speeds of their escape.
-
- THE SPEED GEAR DRIVE PROPULSION ENGINE
-
- The main propulsion system of the most common "Mother Ships" is
- the FIF-2M, Multi-Field Speed Gear Drive. Under Normal operation,
- the FIF-2M Speed Gear Drive System can propel the cruiser at a
- speed of eight (8) Speed Gear, that is 8 X 8 X 8 X 8 X 8 X the
- Earthian Speed of Light, with emegency speeds of Speed Gear
- nine (9) and beyond. At the heart of this massive drive system
- is the MAGNIUM Crystal assembly, which controls the
- matter/antimatter colisions.
-
- They call "MAGNIUM"........MMGNIUM....or...
-
- Magnium is the only material yet discovered that can withstand
- exposure to antimatter particles for limited periods of time.
- Because of its unique crystaline structure, Magnium can hold
- antimatter suspended in the empty spaces between its atoms with
- only negligible annihilation of either Magnium or antimatter
- atoms.
-
- If a crystal is defective, its structure will permit too many
- antimatter atoms to touch the normal atoms, thus degrading the
- structure of the crystal itself at a measurable rate. This is
- known as Magnium decrystalization.
-
- The Magnium crystal is housed in an armored cradle of MEGAPLASTIUM,
- (or, in alien language, MMGPLTUM" or , the
- hardest substance known to the civilized races. During normal
- operations, matter and antimatter are introduced into the Speed Gear
- engine core through separate plasma injectors. The Magnium crystal
- assembly is placed directly in the path of the two matter streams,
- which would otherwise collide with an explosive release of energy.
- Instead, particles of antimatter slip through the face of the Magnium
- crystal housed in the assembly block, the antimatter atoms splitting
- apart in reaction to the Magnium atoms, then recombining in a
- high-energy combination.
-
- These newly combined atoms receive additional energy charges as they
- pass from one crystal to the next in the assembly. Naturally, a few
- atoms of Magnium and antimatter will collide on the crystal's surface,
- but a surrounding magnetic coil contains the energy and radiation
- from these collisions.
-
- The streams of Magnium, energized antimatter coming from the Magnium
- crystal assembly, now split into separate plasma streams that are
- magnetically channeled along power transfer nacelles, the modified
- antimatter streams, which results in mutual annihilation and the
- release of enormous energy. A by-product of the destruction of
- Magnium, energized atoms of antimatter is the release of unique
- electromagnetic properties that produce the Speed Gear Field
- surrounding the Mother Ship.
-
- All Speed Gear Drives Fall Into Three Types:
-
- 1. Standard Speed Gear Drive units create a single Speed Gear Field
- that surrounds the ship as it moves through space, allowing it to
- move at speeds in excess of the Earthian Speed of Light.
-
- 2. Trans-Speed Gear Drive systems create a similar field, but
- improve on the original design by projecting portions of the Speed
- Gear field ahead of the ship. This creates a natural multiplier
- phenomenon, increasing speeds with only minimal increases on energy
- costs.
-
- 3. Multi-Speed Gear Drive system. The so-called Mother Ships
- combines both the above systems to create a Multi-Speed Gear Field
- engine design. Though the Mother Ship is not a true Trans-Gear Drive
- vessel because of its size, its Speed Gear system does have
- advantages over alternate Speed Gear Drives.
-
- The Mother Ship Speed Gear Drive functions through a pair of separate
- Speed Gear Drive units along each outboard engine housing. Each of
- these four (4) units projects its own Speed Gear Field ahead of the
- vessel as it moves through space. These fields overlap, which
- results in high Speed Gear speeds for a vessel the size of the Mother
- Ship, as well as, for most instantaneous shifts from sublight speeds
- to Speed Gear speed.
-
- It also makes possible near-instantaneous jumps to higher Speed Gear
- levels without the need for magnetic containment build-up time. In
- older generation Speed Gear Systems, the matter-antimatter intermix
- temperatures within the Speed Gear Engine units had to be carefully
- recalibrated to accept higher pressures before the vessel could
- move from one Speed Gear level to the next. The time needed to
- increase the strength of the surrounding magnetic containment
- fields could require, from several earth seconds, up to several
- earth minutes.
-
- END