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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Alpha Centauri: [QB] Masao: Warp technology, or merely subspace technology, is indeed used in impulse drives. The TNG Technical Manual says: <HR> [i] During the early definition phase of the Ambassador class, it was determined that the combined vehicle mass could reach at least 3.71 million metric tons. The propulsive force availabole from the highest specific-impulse (I<SUB>sp</SUB>) fusion engines available or projected fell far too short of being able to to achieve the 10 km/sec<SUP>2</SUP> acceleration required. This neccessitated the inclusion of a compact space-time driver coil, similar to those standard in warp engine nacelles, that would perform a low-level continuum distortion without driving the vehicle across the warp threshold. The driver coil was already into computer simulation[/i] (...) [i]and it was determined that a fusion-driven engine could move a larger mass than would normally be possible by reaction thrust alone, even with exhaust products accelerated to near lightspeed. [/i] <HR> [/QB][/QUOTE]
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