Null fold starships
In the upcoming novel, The Milk Run, we are introduced to the null fold X-drive. This star drive folds the imaginary component of negative energy to produce an order of magnitude increase in speed. Since the speed of the X-drive is proportional to the amount of computing power, there is no actual upper limit. This is the fastest star drive yet in the world of Rome's Revolution.
However, nobody wants to carry around a computer the size of planet. Even the clone ships are basically just flying computers with very little room for human passengers and certainly not built for the long haul:
So what to do? The answer is very simple. Just create an external "tank" of memrons that clamp onto a regular starship and boost up the computing power only while you need the X-drive. Then decouple and leave it orbiting somewhere while you do your business. Once freed of the Detachable Computing Unit (DCU), the starship could maneuver in the atmosphere or in space normally.
Think of this kind of like the space shuttle where the external fuel tank mounts on the top rather than the bottom. I'm not a good enough modeler to draw you a picture of Junior using this configuration so I took a drawing of the space shuttle to illustrate. Imagine the orange tank clamping down on the top of the starship. And further, imagine that the tank is filled with computing units rather than liquid hydrogen and you get the idea:
However, nobody wants to carry around a computer the size of planet. Even the clone ships are basically just flying computers with very little room for human passengers and certainly not built for the long haul:
So what to do? The answer is very simple. Just create an external "tank" of memrons that clamp onto a regular starship and boost up the computing power only while you need the X-drive. Then decouple and leave it orbiting somewhere while you do your business. Once freed of the Detachable Computing Unit (DCU), the starship could maneuver in the atmosphere or in space normally.
Think of this kind of like the space shuttle where the external fuel tank mounts on the top rather than the bottom. I'm not a good enough modeler to draw you a picture of Junior using this configuration so I took a drawing of the space shuttle to illustrate. Imagine the orange tank clamping down on the top of the starship. And further, imagine that the tank is filled with computing units rather than liquid hydrogen and you get the idea:
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