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==Well Drive== | ==Well Drive== | ||
Located in engineering on [[Fleet | 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 five "speeds": | Has five "speeds": | ||
Revision as of 01:34, 6 June 2020
For all the bits and pieces that go on ships.
- Short-lapse EVA softsuits: attached to a ship by an umbilical. Long hair must be braided and wound around the head to fit, and species with long ears like Aera may need to tuck back their ears.[1]
Well Drive
Located in engineering on Fleet ships: an "enormous central chamber with its pulsing Well capsule."[2]
Has five "speeds":
- 1
- 2
- 3 (The Lip of the Well); most civilian ships stop here.
- 4 Courier ships occasionally go this speed.
- 5 (The Well's Deep) This speed is only typical of Fleet vessels pushing things.
- ↑ "In the Line of Duty"
- ↑ Who is Willing, chapter 3