Editing Antigravity Systems

Aside from the ease of mobility for work and play it affords, and the pleasing 'natural' feel, artificial gravity has long been known to be practically indispensable for off-world living, due to its necessity for cellular growth and health. 

For the Galaxy-class Starship, hundreds of simple synthetic gravity generators provide the Class-M norm, tied in to the inertial dampers to counteract acceleration effects in an effect much like the tractor beam, each generator creates a gravity field by using a controlled stream of gravitons generated by a superconducting stator rotating at speeds over 125,540 rpm, powered by energy tapped from the electro-plasma system (EPS). The stator, built, built of thoronium arkenide, is in turn suspended within pressurized chrylon gas in the center of a hollow sealed chamber of anicium titanide 454, measuring only 50 cm in diameter and 25 cm tall. This device provides a graviton field of only a few picoseconds, so the decay time demands that generators be located every 30 meters or so. Thus, the ship at large includes two networks of 400 generators each in the primary hull, and two more networks of 200 each in the engineering hull. The generators are tied together by small waveguide conduits to allow 'field bleed' in cases of extreme maneuvering and inertial movement.

Each stator is built in suspended state, and is maintained with only a synchronizing EPS energy pulse every hour or so. In the case of EPS loss, the stator will provide an attraction field for up to 240 minutes, with a dip down to only about 0.8g predicted. Sinesopidal ribs on the inner surface of each generator's sealed cylinder absorb motions with an amplitude up to 6 cm per second. 

The crew are protected from the effects of acceleration by the inertial damper field, which enables the ship to accelerate to high speeds without pulverizing ship's personnel.

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-Organic lifeforms require gravitational and electro-magnetic fields, similar to those found on most M-Class worlds, to ensure proper cellular growth. In the following days of space travel Low-level EM field devices simulated planetary background electrical and magnetic fields were used, and the crews of many 20-30 year flights arrived in a healthy state.
+Aside from the ease of mobility for work and play it affords, and the pleasing 'natural' feel, artificial gravity has long been known to be practically indispensable for off-world living, due to its necessity for cellular growth and health.
-By the 22nd Century, technological advances had allowed the creation of artificial gravity devices small enough to use on most Starships. A network of small artificial gravity devices, working together to provide the proper sense of 'down'. This network is also tied into the inertial dampening system to minimise motion shock during flight. Although the fields between devices do overlap slightly, if they have been arranged and tuned properly, the effect is barely noticable.
+For the Galaxy-class Starship, hundreds of simple synthetic gravity generators provide the Class-M norm, tied in to the inertial dampers to counteract acceleration effects in an effect much like the tractor beam, each generator creates a gravity field by using a controlled stream of gravitons generated by a superconducting stator rotating at speeds over 125,540 rpm, powered by energy tapped from the electro-plasma system (EPS). The stator, built, built of thoronium arkenide, is in turn suspended within pressurized chrylon gas in the center of a hollow sealed chamber of anicium titanide 454, measuring only 50 cm in diameter and 25 cm tall. This device provides a graviton field of only a few picoseconds, so the decay time demands that generators be located every 30 meters or so. Thus, the ship at large includes two networks of 400 generators each in the primary hull, and two more networks of 200 each in the engineering hull. The generators are tied together by small waveguide conduits to allow 'field bleed' in cases of extreme maneuvering and inertial movement.
-The gravitational field itself is created by a controlled stream of gravitons, like the basic physics behind the tractor beam. Power from the Electro-Plasma System (EPS) is channeled into a hollow chamber of anicium titanide 454, a sealed cylindrical chamber measuring 50cm in diameter and 25cm high. Suspended in the center of the chamber, in pressurised chrylon gas, is a superconducting stator of thoronium arkenide. Once at a rotational rate of 125,540 rpm (1.1832 x 10^7 rads/sec), generates a gravitational fieldwith a short lifetime, in the order of a few picoseconds. This decay time necessitates the additional of other devices beyond 30m distance. The field is close enough to being uniform to allow natural walking without a grativity gradient from head to foot, long a problem in centrifugal systems.
+Each stator is built in suspended state, and is maintained with only a synchronizing EPS energy pulse every hour or so. In the case of EPS loss, the stator will provide an attraction field for up to 240 minutes, with a dip down to only about 0.8g predicted. Sinesopidal ribs on the inner surface of each generator's sealed cylinder absorb motions with an amplitude up to 6 cm per second.
-The superconducting stator remains suspended from the time of manufacture, requiring only a synchronising pulse of energy from the EPS sytem approximately once every 60 minutes. In the event of EPS failure, the stator will continue to provide an attractive field for up to 240 minutes, though after the first hour a degradation of field strength to around 0.8g will be detected. Any perceived ship motions that might disturb the stator gyroscopically are dampened by sinesoidal ribs on the inner surface of the anicium titanide chamber, effectively absorbing motions with an acceleration of less than 6cm/sec. All motions with higher acceleration are dealt with by the ships inertial dampening field.
+The crew are protected from the effects of acceleration by the inertial damper field, which enables the ship to accelerate to high speeds without pulverizing ship's personnel.
-Gravity generators are located throughout the habitable volume of most spacecraft. Because of this, inertial potential can vary from one location to the other, especially during harsh manouevers. In order to allow translation of excess inertial potential to other parts of the ship, gravity generators are connected to each other by a network of small waveguide conduits that allow field bleed, hence increasing gravitational stability.
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