To: "'trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com'" 
From: Jason Patten 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

Question;
        Does anyone know how many g's the Inertial damper system can protect
against?
For example
If full Impulse is .75c or 224,844,343.5 m/s Then if your ship can
accelerate to from stop to full impulse in 1sec the dampers must be able to
handle a load of 22,943,300.3g.  If you assume a 5sec time to full impulse
you can reduce that to 4,588,660g.

In fact I think that the failure of the inertial compensators would likely
result in the total destruction of the vessel as I don't think anything in
the ship could be built to handle those kind of g loads without the
compensators and SIF fields.  if anything loose was subjected to that kind
of acceleration it the transfer of the kinetic energy to heat energy when
it impacted the hull/ bulkhead/ whatever would be enormous and vaporize
itself and anything nearby.


I know that the Tech manual says people can get bounced around because of
the "lag" in the compensators when an unexpected movement occurs,
but if they can handle perhaps as high as the MILLIONS of gs of force you'd
think that the few hundred to even a thousand Gs of would be easily
handled.  Of course these figures are dependent on how "fast"
full impulse is and how long it takes the ship to reach it, but should give
a rough estimate.

Warp drive could be a whole other issue depending on exactly how you think
warp drive works.



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