Maldor Mecetti
High Chancellor
Imperial Hyperspace Flywheel
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To allow a ship to quickly re-enter hyperspace, or perform a hyperspace jump even after a main power interruption.
- Image Source: midjourney.com prompted by me.
- Canon Link: Related Technology: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Capacitor_bank
- Permissions: NA
- Primary Source: NA
- Manufacturer: House Mecetti Nationalized Industries
- Affiliation: Empire of the Lost
- Market Status: Closed Market
- Model: Imperial Hyperspace Flywheel
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Solid State Capacitors and Power Couplings and Power Converters
- Leeches energy from the hyperspace drive during flight
- Isolates energy from all systems other than the hyperdrive
- Returns energy to hyperdrive instantaneously on demand
- Allows a ship to immediately initiate a hyperspace jump upon concluding a hyperspace jump, without needing to charge the hyperdrive up before the next leg of a journey.
- Makes a ship difficult to follow, as it can perform a quick successive jump before its first jump can be fully tracked.
- Allows a ship to initiate a hyperspace jump even if there has been an interruption in ship's power.
- Makes Hyperdrive .5 slower due to power leeching performed during flight, so that for instance a Type 2 Hyperdrive will perform as Type 2.5.
- A jump without ship's power will only last for a couple of minutes. Enough to get a ship 'out of dodge' but not enough to get it to its destination.
The 'Imperial Hyperspace Flywheel' is a new development using established technology, something House Mecetti is well known for. The term 'Flywheel' is merely an allusion to the mechanical device, as no wheel is actually spinning up in this design. Rather, it employs a bank of high-capacity, high-discharge-rate solid-state capacitors which leech a small amount of energy from a ship's hyperdrive during flight. Then, this energy can be dumped back into the hyperdrive to allow the ship to initiate a new jump, even seconds after concluding a previous jump. This can make scouts and intelligence vessels difficult to pursue. Even if their first jump is tracked, they can drop out of hyperspace and initiate a second jump immediately to a new destination. They will surely be gone so quickly that the second jump will not be able to be observed and tracked properly. In addition, a ship equipped with this device can enter hyperspace even in the event of a main power failure, such as the disabling of its power core. The resultant flight is brief, but is perhaps enough to let a ship escape danger and conduct repairs several parsecs away. The Imperial Hyperspace Flywheel can be scaled up and down to fit any ship that has a hyperdrive, though the speed of the ship's hyperdrive will be penalized by .5 as the capacitors leech its energy.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To allow a ship to quickly re-enter hyperspace, or perform a hyperspace jump even after a main power interruption.
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Empire of the Lost
Modular:
No
Material:
Solid State Capacitors and Power Couplings and Power Converters
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