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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Prakesh: [QB] The technologies involved in basic warp flight are much more complicated than just firing excited plasma through verterium cortenide coils (or spools) (or something to that effect). A list of things that must have been available to Cochrane (and which he likely did not invent himself): SIF The Phoenix could have had at least a crude SIF system to keep her intact during her flight, although it is is not entirely necessary, since the structure can supprt itself and it was only one flight. IDF The Phoenix definitely needed IDF. Whithout IDF, everyone would've been reduced to mush. Bussard ramscoops While not necessary to warp flight (it is only used for fuel replenishment), the Phoenix was clearly outiftted with two 'Buzzard' scoops. Antimatter $ $ "Friendship One" allegedly confirmed that Auntie Matter was used aboard the early warp ships, although fusion power seems more realistic for this age. Artifical gravity Did the Phoenix have gravity, or was the crew strapped in their chairs? Hard to judge, IIRC. NavDef I guess the P must have had at least some kind of forcefield to survive a FTL particle collision. FTL sensors Did the Phoenix have sensors? If Cochrane didn't invent these things, who did? I'd say the Third World War was instrumental in the development of all these exotic things. Wartime is often a good time for scientific development (see Einstein and his H-bomb idea). Anti-grav tanks? Extreme aircraft with IDF? Forcefields? AM powered facilities? I'd vote yes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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