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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb]Also, collapsing of the mass-reducing fields may be used for slowing down the ship. Such systems would bring the ship to a halt when most or all power fails; reversed impulse thrust would be used for further "stopping power" when in a great hurry.[/qb][/QUOTE]I think you've just explained the otherwise silly notion of starships losing power and suddenly coming to a complete (relative) stop, without any apparent change in momentum (which in zero-gravity should keep the ship moving at speed indefinitely). But if the mass-reducing subspace-based fields (as suggested in "Deja Q" and "Emissary", among others) were to fail, that would definitely bring the ship to a halt faster (I guess, though I'm not a physicist and am probably way off base). However, the question remains, why would the mass-reducing fields be independent of the inertial dampers, which are apparenly almost always online? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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