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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The slowing-down effect might be some inherent property of subspace. A completely depowered ship can slow down, so apparently it isn't something the ship does actively by using its engines. Ships seem to be able to slow down much, much faster than they are able to speed up. Perhaps both the impulse and the warp engines must constantly fight a horrendous subspace drag effect. Or then the drag intensity of the effect can be varied. There could be a "subspace anchor" the crew can and will drop when the ship loses power. Or the warp coils or impulse driver coils could act as subspace anchors when not powered up. The drag force energies involved must be bigger than the kinetic energy of a real-world object at near-lightspeed, since they can bring a ship to halt so rapidly from high impulse or even from warp. So the forces acting on the ship would be immense. Assuming that the "anchor" is permanently deployed and not something the crew can "raise" and "lower" at will, the impulse engines must be horribly powerful - so powerful that it doesn't matter if the ship masses 100,000 tons or ten million tons. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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