drawbridgep opened this issue on Jun 25, 2005 ยท 45 posts
drawbridgep posted Sun, 26 June 2005 at 7:38 AM
Thanks tjohn. (Sci-fi crap imminent warning....) The cobalt hyperdrive engines use a very dense anti-matter core which actually constitutes over half the weight of the ship. This means that the centre of gravity is balanced perfectly between the forward and rear landing gear. As for breaking, the reinforced grid work is made of an alloy not found on earth. It was given to the humans as part of a trade agreement from a very advanced culture and allows the ship to be incredibly long and still support it's own weight. It could actually be twice as long between the landing gear without undue stress being caused. AND is so well balanced it could almost get away with just one landing strut. AND (nearly done) the antigrav generators are used in combination with the landing struts to support the craft when it's on the ground. Jeeze guys, have you never heard of science fiction? You should get a life and stay in and watch more Star Trek! Wait, that's not right is it? ;-)