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HB of CJ
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Yep. Maybe "God Particle" creation and modulation? Both graves and repellers, depending upon how the beam is modulated powered and controlled? Klingon disruptors work that way. Push and pull billions of times per second tuned to the enemy. Very nasty. Literally rips anything apart. Tamed down and employeed also known as either a tractor or pressor beam. HB
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Louis R
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It may be your tradition, but it certainly isn't mine
![]() There's a reason why both terms have been in use since long before I could read [I read the stories later, of course], and if you look you'll find at least 3 variations on the 'tradition': only tractors - since gravity can only pull things together, of course; tractors & pressors as distinct, non-interchangable, devices that _only_ move an object, more often than not accelerating it; and devices, generally called tractors, although Smith used the term tractor zone for this as a distinct variant from the other 2, that holds something in a fixed position WRT the ship or whatever. That last, BTW, seems to me to be the least traditional version - IIRC, it appears much later than the others, but that could be due to a combination of selective reading and selective memory.
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