SharkHunter
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LAC count wise, thanks for the info. I'd totally missed the launch ratio despite reading the whole series a number of times now. Also, propulsion wise, I stand corrected, thought that was just he spider-drives that were doing that, which is what made them such a difficult proposition to track. If RFC says otherwise, however, I'm not gonna argue.
As far as the "instantaneous acceleration to lightspeed", on an atomic level, that's what I thought that the impellers were doing in N-space: grabbing photons/atoms etc., using the gravitic bands of the wedge and throwing them backwards, and deriving their acceleration from that force.
For example, you grab a bit of space dust out there, and the wedge accelerates it to near-C, using however much E required to do so, for the sake of discussion, call it a million to one proposition. The equal and opposite reaction would be a force pushing one million bits of space dust in the other direction.
Now then, obviously a ship is a whole lot more bits of way heavier molecules than "space dust millions", but the math seems more match-able to real world physics.
--------------------- All my posts are YMMV, IMHO, and welcoming polite discussion, extension, and rebuttal. This is the HonorVerse, after all
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