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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Combining the [i]Excelsior[/i] stalling thing with the ENT backstage technobabble, I'd say that ships from the pre-[i]Ambassador[/i] era manipulated their inertia with a combo of the warp engines and the blue glowing "field stabilizer" thingamabob that appears on basically all pre-ENT, ENT and TFS designs (although not on the TOS era ones). Post-[i]Ambassador[/i] designs would move the blue doohickey into the impulse engines themselves, and make it independent of externally created warp fields. This would come at an extra cost: why install dedicated subspace coils for the impulse drive if warp coils already exist for the trick? Thus, only the biggest of the modern ships would rely on this tech, while something like the [i]Defiant[/i] shuttlecraft would still use the cheaper alternative. TOS era ships might have tried another expensive alternate method, which was abandoned by the time of TMP. Whether the different types of starship would have different ramming properties... It probably depends on whether "integrated" and "warp field tapping" inertia manipulation effects collapse differently when the ship flattens itself against the Cube. As for maximum impulse speed and related ramming energy, I don't think either 0.25c or 0.99c would be a relevant figure when a starship rams a Cube from a relative standstill across a range of just a few hundred or at most thousand klicks. Even at ten thousand gees, ten times the supposed [i]Ambassador[/i] performance, it'd take about an hour to accelerate to 0.99c if Einstein was asleep, and the better part of a working day if General Relativity was vigilant. Assuming my math isn't too badly affected by my lack of sleep and concentration. Still, something must be negating the inertia of starships or torpedoes if they can't dent the Cube with kinetic energy alone. We can always argue that shields deflect/absorb/turn-into-sperm-whales-and-petunias kinetic energy better than they do phaser energy or photon torpedo explosive energy, though. Perhaps even the fastest and most massive bullet can't deliver the correct [i]type[/i] of joules to the target, and thus won't make the desired dent. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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