Campaign:NHNE/General/Anti-Grav

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Anti-Gravity allows the generator to resist the effects of gravity. Thus a vehicle in a perfect Anti-Gravity field will drift off the surface of a body - initially slowly, but apparently gaining speed as it gains altitude because it is moving tangentially to the surface. In practice, a perfect field is impossible to achieve and this allows the effect to be played with to provide vertical and lateral motion with accelerations of up to the local gravity gradient. Other controls, acting upon a local atmosphere (if any) can allow higher g-forces to be applied in turns; and the provision of alternate means of propulsion allow for higher accelerations.

It should be noted that Anti-Gravity devices are much cheaper than M-Drives.