Approved Tech Nadion Otherspace engine

[Jessica Med-Beq]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To provide a different take on the Otherdrive
• Image Source: N/A
• Canon Link: N/A
• Restricted Missions: N/A
• Primary Source: Iron Crown T-2000 "Outrider" Otherdrive - Hyperwavefront Arrythmia Inductor

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Ringovinda Systems
• Model: Nadion Otherspace engine
• Affiliation: Closed-Market
• Modularity: No
• Production: Semi-unique
• Material: Standard hyperdrive components

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Modified alluvial damper

DETAILED SPECIAL FEATURES
The modified alluvial damper allows the Otherdrive to redirect the ion energy in an irregular fashion while the jump is being initiated, ultimately provoking a disruption in the hyperspace corridor.

Strengths:

• Capable of non-linear flight in Otherspace
• Can allow circumvention of hyperroute surveillance grids

Weaknesses :

• Must be used in conjunction with the Otherpilot navicomputer
• Very slow: it is equivalent to a class 4 hyperdrive at best
• Very dangerous to use in Otherspace (see noted below)
• The whiplash of ions can cause ions to be projected irregularly across the ship, causing some random systems onboard to shut down once the ship jumps to Otherspace

DESCRIPTION
It was found that, during the space trials of the Immobilizer 419, that, even when the existing Otherspace engines were not activated, a failure of the alluvial damper could also provoke a ship to enter Otherspace, causing wild fluctuations in the flow of the ion particles capable of disrupting the hyperspace corridor. While the hyperdrive remained more or less intact beyond the failure of the alluvial damper, other systems onboard may not be so lucky; in fact, while, in general, the reactor and the engines are spared, other systems may short out and take time to get back online due to the random nature of the ion perturbations, during which time the ship is vulnerable. Also, the faulty alluvial damper was examined and a modified alluvial damper was thus designed so that the mount ship can enter Otherspace. The Nadion is, of course, not intended to be used as a primary hyperdrive, and it is preferred to be a secondary hyperdrive. In addition, the paralight system, that is, the interface, is compatible only with the Otherpilot navicomputer since there is an additional data feed that is specific to the needs of Otherspace travel.

Nadion units scale in accordance to the size of the ship since the main modification compared to a normal hyperdrive is the alluvial damper, but due to the danger the modified alluvial damper causes, production of the modified alluvial damper is thus limited. Also, the fact remains that Otherspace travel is often much slower than normal hyperspace flight: even the fastest Nadion Otherspace engine can only fly at the speed of a class-4 hyperdrive.

Additional notes on Otherspace (courtesy of [member="Velok the Younger"]):

• Otherspace does not contain realspace mass shadows. Reversion from Otherspace into hyperspace and then realspace is thus extremely dangerous, comparable to a blind hyperjump -- it is entirely possible to revert to hyperspace on a collision course with a deadly mass shadow, or even inside one.
• While the native Charon are not capable of hyperspace travel (and giving them hyperdrives is not recommended), they have purged entire galaxies of life, moving from system to system. The laws of physics are different in Otherspace, allowing vast distances to be traveled in disproportionately short time, much like in hyperspace.
• Using Otherspace as a means of travel in the main galaxy (by jumping to Otherspace and reverting to hyperspace elsewhere) is conjectured to be roughly comparable to a slow hyperdrive (perhaps class 3-8).
• Such travel is extremely dangerous, both for the risk of running into the Charon or blundering too close to a black hole, and for the risk of reverting to hyperspace in or near a mass shadow. Significant skill in instinctive astrogation is required to even partially mitigate the latter danger.
• Possible benefits to such travel could include circumvention of hyperroute surveillance and early warning systems, as well as temporary neutralization of S-thread tracking beacons.
• Crucially, the Otherdrive cannot be used to jump out of an interdiction field, or jump from deep in a gravity well, as it requires a brief hyperspace jump. It is possible, however, to jump from Otherspace to hyperspace inside a gravity well of whatever kind, either destroying the ship or allowing the Otherdrive to attain a result comparable to a deeply imprecise Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer.

 

[William Bradley]

Hello, I'll be the factory judge reviewing your submission. If you have questions, please feel free to respond to this thread once we are underway.

 

[William Bradley]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Cira"]

 

[Cira]

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"] [member="Felix Hardy"]
Otherdrive technology along with an item that previously required lengthy dev. With no more dev part of the picture, this is akin to rare technology. Please drop this down to semi unique.

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

[member="Cira"] Dropped down to semi-unique...

 

[Cira]

Approved.