I know I have posted this before but because the winner of the last pop quiz wanted it I shall post it again. Forerunner spacecraft used special crystals embedded in their slipspace drives to travel through slipspace. In order to move through ordinary space, they utilized reaction drives which harnessed virtual particles as a propulsive force; however, they still required the use of onboard reaction mass. The reaction drive of a mere automated cargo transport allowed travel from Edom to Erde-Tyrene, (a distance of 100 million kilometers circa 100,000 BCE), within forty-eight hours; this was considered a mundane trip that did not warrant slipspace manipulation. In addition, the Forerunners created a network of slipspace portals for high-traffic slipspace transit across the galaxy. Aboard starships, limited inertial dampening was achieved through the use of buffer fields, but during extreme acceleration, the occupants armors had to be locked to the deck. Forerunner warships could be enormous in scale; the most recent models of Fortress-class vessel were around a hundred kilometers in length, while the Didacts personal command vessel, Mantles Approach, was 341 kilometers in height and was even then surpassed in size by the largest Forerunner ships. The interiors of all Forerunner ships were not entirely composed of matter; for example, the structure of a planet-breaker was only half matter, with one third being fuel and reaction mass and the rest being comprised of hard light, allowing the captain to configure the ships internal layout and decoration at will. At least some types of Forerunner craft can alter their geometry to better suit their current situation; for example, making the ship more aerodynamic in preparation for surface landing. -[049 Abject Testament]
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:02:46 +0000