Vuduri Spaceships and Starships
The Vuduri have a variety of spaceships and starships but all use the same fundamental principles. All use EG lifters to get them off the ground and to the edge of space. All of them use plasma thrusters as their main impulse engine and PPT tunnels for hopping long distances. All use trim-jets to adjust their pitch, roll and yaw. All have small airfoils, insufficient to produce lift but aerodynamically sufficient to produce a control surface within the atmosphere.
For short excursions, the Vuduri use a variety of space-tugs. In Rome's Revolution, we saw several of these in use in the Tabit system. One of them crash-landed on Deucado and evolved into MINIMCOM the starship.
Other ships are small crew ships. They are just for getting people from one place to another. They have cargo ships as well.
The Algol was one of their most sophisticated designs. At its heart, it was a large, very powerful starship for transporting a crew of 80+ to a star system 26 light years from Earth. On the trip out there, the rear of the ship was fit with a set of cylindrical containerized storage units for transporting the tugs, construction materials, scientific equipment and so on.
The cylinders could be detached. One of them was cut in half and used as the staging area between the Algol and Skyler Base on Dara. For the return trip, the storage cylinders were left behind.
All Vuduri spaceships use a landing technique called aero-braking which was covered in an earlier post. The Vuduri determined it was the most efficient way to return to the surface of a planet. So set in their ways, that is why they selected Dara as their stellar observatory; because it had an atmosphere which would allow them to aero-brake. Admittedly, it was also easier to build a base on a world where there was some atmosphere but that was secondary.
Once the Vuduri had come up with what they considered the optimal design elements, they never varied from that. It took MINIMCOM to invent the continuous PPT-tunnel projector which allowed him to travel at nearly 1000c. It took him several years but he eventually shared this design with the Vuduri who started building a fleet of what they called fastships.
Not to be outdone, (with OMCOM's help), MINIMCOM implemented the null-fold drive which boosted his top end by a factor of 15X. In the next book in the series called The Milk Run, OMCOM rolls out an improvement, the null-fold Drive II which can go twice as fast allowing Aason and Junior to move along at 30,000 times the speed of light. That is pretty damned fast!
For short excursions, the Vuduri use a variety of space-tugs. In Rome's Revolution, we saw several of these in use in the Tabit system. One of them crash-landed on Deucado and evolved into MINIMCOM the starship.
Other ships are small crew ships. They are just for getting people from one place to another. They have cargo ships as well.
The Algol was one of their most sophisticated designs. At its heart, it was a large, very powerful starship for transporting a crew of 80+ to a star system 26 light years from Earth. On the trip out there, the rear of the ship was fit with a set of cylindrical containerized storage units for transporting the tugs, construction materials, scientific equipment and so on.
The cylinders could be detached. One of them was cut in half and used as the staging area between the Algol and Skyler Base on Dara. For the return trip, the storage cylinders were left behind.
All Vuduri spaceships use a landing technique called aero-braking which was covered in an earlier post. The Vuduri determined it was the most efficient way to return to the surface of a planet. So set in their ways, that is why they selected Dara as their stellar observatory; because it had an atmosphere which would allow them to aero-brake. Admittedly, it was also easier to build a base on a world where there was some atmosphere but that was secondary.
Once the Vuduri had come up with what they considered the optimal design elements, they never varied from that. It took MINIMCOM to invent the continuous PPT-tunnel projector which allowed him to travel at nearly 1000c. It took him several years but he eventually shared this design with the Vuduri who started building a fleet of what they called fastships.
Not to be outdone, (with OMCOM's help), MINIMCOM implemented the null-fold drive which boosted his top end by a factor of 15X. In the next book in the series called The Milk Run, OMCOM rolls out an improvement, the null-fold Drive II which can go twice as fast allowing Aason and Junior to move along at 30,000 times the speed of light. That is pretty damned fast!
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