Antimatter Pion Drive

An Antimatter Pion Drive, also known as a Beam-core Antimatter Rocket, is a type of Antimatter Rocket occasionally used on some vessels.

• They are a type of Relativistic Drive or Reaction Drive.
• It is a kind of Ship Equipment.

Description (Specifications)

Antimatter Pion Drives (aka "A-Drives") produce beamed particle-thrust directly from the products of a proton-antiproton annihilation reaction. The particle products resultant from a proton-antiproton reaction include:

• Both neutral pion-antipion pair production and oppositely charged pion-antipion pair production.

• Neutral pions and antipions both decay almost instantaneously into gamma photon radiation.
• Charged pions and antipions decay at a much slower rate into like charged muons and antimuons, each accompanied by an associated muon-neutrino.

• Charged muons and antimuons decay into electrons and positrons, respectively, each accompanied by an associated electron-neutrino.

While the neutral pions an antipions (as well as the uncharged gamma photons and various neutrinos) cannot be utilized for propulsion purposes (and actually carry energy away from the reaction), the charged pions, muons, electrons, and positrons can be electromagnetically redirected and beamed directionally for vectored thrust.

STL Drive Specifications

STL Drive Specifications (Starship Propulsion)

Category	Specifications	Remarks
Name	Beamed-core Antimatter Rocket (Antimatter Pion Drive)
TL		TBD	TBD
Drive Type	High-Efficiency/High Impulse STL	TBD
Velocity	TBD	TBD
Duration	TBD	TBD
Hazards	Radiation; antimatter containment	TBD
Physical Constraints	TBD	TBD
Geometry	TBD	TBD
Levels	TBD	TBD
Entry	TBD	TBD
Exit	TBD	TBD
Fuel	Antiprotons	TBD
Resource Requirements	TBD	TBD
Inventor	TBD	TBD
Characteristics	TBD	TBD

History & Background (Dossier)

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Library Data Referral Tree

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:

Starships:

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Speed-of-Travel

• Speed of Travel

• NAFAL (STL) - (Not As Fast As Light) / (Slower Than Light)
• Light Speed (c)
• FTL - (Faster Than Light) - "Superluminal"

• Astronomical Unit (AU)

» Imperial Standard Astronomical Unit

• Light-second (ls)
• Light-minute (lm)
• Light-hour (lh)
• Light-day (ld)
• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• Parsec (pc)

» Solomani Parsec

» Vilani Parsec ("Deshi")

» Imperial Standard Parsec

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Impulse-Drives

• Spacecraft Drives (Interplanetary Drives)

• Reaction Drives:

• Reaction Rockets:

• R-Drive (Rocket Drive)
• O-Drive (Orion Drive)
• P_H-Drive (HEPlaR Drive)

• Impulse Drives:

(Field Propulsion Drives / Propellantless Drives)

• Z-Drive (Lifter / <1.0 D)
• G-Drive (Gravitic Drive / <10.0 D)
• M-Drive (Maneuver Drive/Thruster / <1000.0 D)
• N-Drive (NAFAL Drive / <¹/₈ ly)

• Reactionless Drives:

• T-Drive (Reactionless Motion Thruster):

• Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster (GIT)
• Dean Space-Thruster Drive

• T_N-Drive (Reactionless Field Thruster: Advanced Gravito-Nuclear Impulse Thruster)

• Deep Space Maneuver System - ("Reactionless")

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Interstellar-Drives

• Starship Drives (Interstellar Drives)
  • N-Drive (NAFAL Drive / < ¹/₈ ly)
  • J-Drive (Jump Drive / > 100 D)
  • Alternative FTL Drives

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Loren Wiseman. "Sublight Drives." Challenge 72 (1994): TBD.
• Charles E. Gannon. Hard Times (Game Designers Workshop, 1991), 84.
• Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), 72-73.
• Don Perrin. Starships (Imperium Games, 1996), 71.
• David Golden, Guy Garnett. Fire, Fusion & Steel (Imperium Games, 1997), 65.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 328-331.