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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Depends on how complete the shutdown is. If just the thrusters are shut down, the ship will merrily coast for some time, with only the tenuous drag of the interstellar medium to contend with. If the whole system is shut down (for some unknown reason), things would be a little different. The space-time driver coils in the impulse engine systems reduce the ship's apparant mass, allowing relatively small engines to push a much bigger ship effeciently. As has been pointed out in other locations at other times, momentum is a product of mass. Shut down the driver coils and the sudden increase in localized mass for the level of kinetic energy present would slow the ship down suddenly and dramatically -- but not to a complete stop, as there IS still kinetic energy present. However, I'm not too sure what effect shutting the driver coils down at warp would have on things... Someone better versed in the interaction of ship's mass to warp fields will have to fill that in... --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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