THE LEWIS AND CLARK

[inferis]

[You have woken up aboard the Lewis and Clark. It's a nice, clean, light vessel and everything seems to be in working order...at the moment. Explore!]

[[OOC: AROUND THE SHIP | THE CONTROL ROOM | THE DOORS | STASIS | DAY ONE OOC POST | PLOT CHAT | PLOT HUB]]

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[vampirize]

But what sort of energy? Nuclear?

[He strokes his chin as he thinks.]

And why would you create black holes in the first place? How would you escape their pull?

[encryptedlock]

That's what we used, yeah. The idea of creating a bunch of mini black holes is that they'd actually tear a rift in our dimension big enough for the ship to enter Slipspace, which is what we call the one adjacent to ours. A week or so in Slipspace is a couple of lightyears in regular space, so once we get approximately where we're going, we activate the black holes and jump back.

As for how the ship isn't destroyed, that's contained by the core. Shaw-Fujikawa drives, we call them. Most expensive piece of equipment known to man.

[vampirize]

Well, I certainly wouldn't expect something like that to cost a few bucks.

But there isn't any negative effect for doing something like that? You'd think everything that could possibly go wrong would.

[encryptedlock]

Not really. I mean, once in a while a drive is mounted improperly, but if all the safety procedures are followed it's really reliable.

[He crosses his arms as he looks at the schematics.]

Of course, we use a bunch of tiny black holes and not one big one. But if I remember right, the TARDIS has a black hole in it, too. Maybe the Doctor knows?

/sidles on in here, y/n?

[toobravehearted]

[He's been listening to this with interest. Clearing his throat at this point he steps forward.]

You're correct, York. Albeit, the Eye of Harmony in the TARDIS is usually linked to the one on Gallifrey. Containment is key.

[He's going to slip right in there and start pressing buttons. Whaaat? It's a control room, buttons are meant to be flipped and pressed.]

If you could harness the power of a star at perpetual collapse the power provided would be endless. To do that, you need an anchor; a containment field strong enough. To answer your first question, [he looks at the gentleman York is talking with, ] very carefully.

y :)

[encryptedlock]

[York nods over at the Doctor.]

Yeah. The ones we make in a Slipspace drive aren't stable, so they only last a few microseconds - just enough to make the jump. I don't know what kind of technology this one has, but--if we're only in 2047, well, it's not the same technology as I know.