Fiction talk:United Lanat Empire/Technology

You requested my help with technology yesterday, particulrly weapons and travel technology. Luckily, I had some inspiration earlier today, playing pool (cue sports type), and it involves the efficient intergalactic travel the ULE possess to invade civilisations as strong as the United Republic of Cyrannus in another galaxy. Basically, instead of using wormholes (which everyone are using), perhaps more unique ideas would be refreshing?

Basically, its a technology that works on a similar principle to a warp drive. The drive collapses spacetime in front and stretches it behind, spacetime is thought to be capable of infinite velocity, while matter within barely moves at all locally within the bubble. However, my inspiration for a new type of warp drive was inspired by be playing with a pair of cues, acting as a rail and on a slight upward incline. A billiard ball at the bottom of the cues would roll upwards towards me as I moved the my end of the cues apart (while keeping the back end held together). This creates a rolling motion as the two surfaces in front stretches apart.

Now, as a summary, lets replace the ball with a spacetime bubble, and assume it is capable of rolling. The ULE ship is enclosed in one of these bubbles; they release a pair of warp drives to stretch spacetime apart on either side of the warp bubble, translating the bubble with respect to the stretching spacetime forwards, and being spacetime, it is not limited by the speed of light. It's basically a new variant of the warp drive, but rolls space instead of contracting it. The only advantages of course, is that it's more refreshing and possibly is more energy efficient for ULE warships not having to power their own drives but using probes to do it for them. Whether this is realistic or not is another matter since I'm applying classical motion to spacetime geometry but it does sound as believable as a classic warp drive. -- Wormulon  Talk to me  20:38, June 25, 2012 (UTC)