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See also [[Alliance Technology#EVA and Diving Equipment |EVA and Diving Equipment]].
See also [[Alliance Technology#EVA and Diving Equipment |EVA and Diving Equipment]].


*Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.<ref name="leadership">"[[Leadership Lessons (Fiction) |Leadership Lessons]]"</ref>
*Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.<ref name="leadership">''[[To Discover and Preserve (Fiction) |To Discover and Preserve]]'', "[[Leadership Lessons (Fiction) |Leadership Lessons]]"</ref>


==Commercial Liners==
==Commercial Liners==
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==Well Drive==
==Well Drive==
===History===
See: [[Well Drive]]
The development of the Well repeater and the Well drive made the Alliance's expansion, and its coherence as a political nation, possible, something understood by the early Pelted because research on possible faster-than-light technologies began during the century the Pelted spent in flight from Earth. Initial focus was on communication technologies, since "we're going to need a way to talk to one another once we land." 89 years into the Exodus, the first Well repeaters were finally successfully developed. It wasn't until 12 years later, after the settlement of Selnor, that the Well Drive was tested successfully.
 
The man responsible for the Well Drive (and who was the first to volunteer for that first test flight) was Roneld Don Cattus, a member of what would become the Asanii. Their target was [[Sector Gamma]], where they'd identified a potential new planet for colonization. When the successful test flight deposited them there, Don Cattus claimed [[Asanao]] for his new race.
 
The early Well drive could only take ships to the Lip of the Well. Don Cattus stayed on Asanao to continue work on the technology, which is the one of the only significant technologies to have its home research in Asanii hands. Once the [[Starbase Gamma | Sector Gamma starbase]] was completed, the research center for Well technology moved there, to what is formally known as the Don Cattus Research Center, located in a sphere set aside specifically for it, and which later sprouted the Gamma Shipyard facility, dedicated to the manufacture of Fleet ships, as well as the largest Academe campus.
 
===Technology===
Located in engineering on [[Fleet]] ships: an "enormous central chamber with its pulsing Well capsule."<ref name="wiw-ch03">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', Chapter 3</ref> Has a bleed-off system, and overload of that system causes enough damage to cripple a ship.<ref name="wiw-ch07">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', Chapter 7</ref> Supported by pylons (different numbers depending on ship class) and glow during operation.<ref name="sota-14" />
 
Has five "speeds":
*1
*2 (The Lip of the Well)
*3 (The Lip of the Well); most civilian ships stop here.
*4 Civilian courier ships occasionally go this speed.
*5 (The Well's Deep) This speed is only typical of Fleet vessels pushing things.
*6?
*Deeper?
 
For civilian ship, anything past Well 4 tends to diminishing returns when the increased cost of maintenance, repair and energy usage were factored against the time saved.<ref name="stt-ch01">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chaper 1</ref>  For vital military or political reasons, military vessels can safely drop deeper in the Well but even those hit the limits of technology, especially material strength and propulsion systems, before whatever may be at the theoretical "bottom" of the Well.<ref name="stt-ch01" />
 
There's a way to "bounce" a slow-moving ship out of Well if you know its vector and engine harmonies, but it's a 'bit of a gamble.' <ref name="oto-03" /> Fleet personnel call it a tripwire. This is more of a pirate technique than a Chatcaavan one.
 
It takes about a week to repair a well drive. <ref name="er-02">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) |Earthrise]]'', Part Two</ref>
 
Few ships capable of landing on a planet have Well drives, and those that do are expensive.<ref name="sota-14">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 14</ref>
 
The computer can and usually does superimpose images of stars moving when in Well for crew comfort, even though one doesn't actually pass stars in the Well.<ref name="sota-13">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 13</ref>


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 04:19, 19 June 2022

For all the bits and pieces that go on ships.

Equipment

See also EVA and Diving Equipment.

  • Snowplow generators, which create a field that either pushes debris away from the ship or vaporizes it. Not necessary while in Well.[1]

Commercial Liners

"Unlike a Fleet vessel, with its unmistakable emergency sirens, the passenger liner's sole indication of its status was a demure strip of red and white lights where the floor met the wall and the occasional repetition of a message 'to please stay in your cabins until the crew gives you further instructions.'[2]

  • in-sector hoppers (short haul, for within a sector)

Platy-Driven Navigation

See also Platy Water Environments

Repairs

  • Repairing ships apparently involves "acrid, nose-tickling smelling" chemical fusers and grease. [3]
  • Hull breaches can be temporarily relieved by an emergency energy patch.[4]

Weaponry and Defense

See Ship Weapons.

Well Drive

See: Well Drive

References

  1. ↑ To Discover and Preserve, "Leadership Lessons"
  2. ↑ Only the Open, Chapter 3
  3. ↑ Faith in the Service, Chapter 4
  4. ↑ Sword of the Alliance, Chapter 15
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