Singularity Drive

An Singularity Drive is a high-output / high-efficiency Interstellar STL starship drive.

• It is an STL or NAFAL Starship propulsion drive.

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Description (Specifications)

A Singularity Drive utilizes a ~ 6.06 ktonne artificial singularity (~ 0.9 attometer Schwarzschild radius) generating approximately 160 petawatts of power to accelerate a vessel to ~ 0.1c in about 20 days, presuming 100% efficiency of energy conversion to kinetic energy (or 10 times that amount at only 10% conversion efficiency). Such a singularity typically would have about a 3.5 year operational lifespan before requiring replacement.

Several different mechanisms to convert Hawking radiation into prolusion have been proposed for such a drive, the most effective being placing the singularity at the focal point of a parabolic reflector attached or otherwise secured to the stern of the ship, creating forward thrust, or the use of a rotating Kerr-Newmann singularity to take advantage of the formation of a controlled microquasar.

Another alternate propulsion mechanism based upon the Singularity Drive would be the photonic Halo Drive, utilizing an infalling photon source along a null-geodesic to gain kinetic energy from the singularity and transfer it to the vessel after the interaction.

FTL Drive Specifications

FTL Drive Specifications (Starship Propulsion)

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History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

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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)
• H/P-Drive (HEPlaR Drive)

• Impulse Drives:

(Field Drives / Propellantless Drives)

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

• Reactionless Drives:

• T-Drive (Reactionless Thruster: Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster (GIT) or Dean Space-Thruster Drive)

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Interstellar-Drives (Advanced)

• Starship Drives (Interstellar Drives)

• N-Drive (NAFAL Drive / < ¹/₈ ly)
• Jump Space Drives

• Jump Space
• Jump Drive History

• Jump Governor
• Nexus Linkage Device
• Nth Order Jump Space Drives

• J-Drive - Jump Drive ("0th" Order Jump Space Drive / > 100 D)
• H-Drive - Hop Drive (1st Order Jump Space Drive / > 1000 D)
• S-Drive - Skip Drive (2nd Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000 D)
• L-Drive - Leap Drive (3rd Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000 D)
• B-Drive - Bound Drive (4th Order Jump Space Drive / > 1,000,000 D)
• V-Drive - Vault Drive (5th Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000,000 D)

• 6-Drive - Six Drive (6th Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000,000 D)
• 7-Drive - Seven Drive (7th Order Jump Space Drive / > 1,000,000,000 D)
• 8-Drive - Eight Drive (8th Order Jump Space Drive / > 10,000,000,000 D)
• 9-Drive - Nine Drive (9th Order Jump Space Drive / > 100,000,000,000 D)

• Hieronymous Device ("Jump Potentiator" / "Jump Exponentiator")

• Conjectural Drives

• "Inertialess Drives":

» Inertialess Drive ("I_M -Drive")

» Triplanetary Drive ("I_T -Drive")

• Improbable Drive
• Hieronymous Drive
• Alcubierre Drive ("Albuquerque Drive")
• Reality Drive

• Alternative Interstellar Drive Technologies

• Alternative FTL Drive

» Hyperspace Drive

» Keyhole Drive

» Stutterdrive

» Teleport Drive

» Warp Drive

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• Traveller 5 (T5.09), p.280
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science