Gravity Drive

The G-Drive, or Gravity Drive, a TL–8+ gravity control based technology used as a Maneuver Drive in Starships. Also known as Grav Drive or Antigrav Drive.

See also:

• M-Drive
• Z-Drive
• NAFAL N-Drive

Description

Gravitic drive is a less efficient version of the M-Drive. Usually powered by an integral FusionPlus, it does not require a separate Power Plant.

The second major breakthrough is artificial gravity. Created by manipulating subatomic forces, artificial gravity is not anti-gravity but is instead a unique force that acts upon the natural gravity field created by all matter. Artificial gravity can be made to either push or pull. Because of its nature, artificial gravity is not a very efficient means of locomotion in deep space where there are no strong gravity wells to push against.

G-Drives are governed by the 10D limit, and are best suited to operation near worlds (or near stars). Beyond the 10D limit, G-Drives operate at 1% efficiency.

Gravcraft use the same technology for their motive thrust.

References and contributors

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Referee's Manual (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 56.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 323-327.