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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] In the old days, they evidently had to start at warp one and then climb to their eventual cruising speed. One of the advances of the Excelsior class (or at least the E-B) was the ability to "jump" straight to the desired velocity. Basically, whether the ship is travelling at .99c or is at all stop, the warp coils get energized to at least 1,000 millicochranes and the ship tunnels into subspace and proceeds on its merry way. If the ship was travelling at impulse speeds prior to going to warp, the propulsive end is shut down a la a computer's "sleep" mode, with the reactors ticking over to avoid having to cold start, as well as keeping the other impulse-dependent systems going. Also, it seems that when a ship's engines are first being aligned, it is less stressful to some aspect of the ship's well-being to run up as close to lightspeed as possible before engaging at warp one (cf. ST:TMP). --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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