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Post by mrfixit on Feb 16, 2010 11:05:53 GMT -6
You are traveling at warp 9 and being pursued by another ship at warp 9.5 . What would happen if you came to a complete stop. Would both ships be destroyed. my friend asked me this question, we spent the next 2 hours discussing warp fields, nav shields, worm holes and ect. This is deeper into the trek tech than i have been before. Help and thanks
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edify
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Post by edify on Feb 16, 2010 16:04:46 GMT -6
Well, I'm no warp expert, but I do know that if a ship traveling at warp 9 comes to a complete stop, the stress on the ship will be too great and it will be torn apart.
However, since the ship traveling at warp 9.5 has a completely separate warp field, the all stop from the ship traveling at warp 9 would probably not affect the ship traveling at warp warp 9.5. The ship would probably just pass through the other ship's wreckage. That's assuming the other ship is directly behind the first ship. There's no guarantee it would be.
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Post by mrfixit on Feb 16, 2010 19:23:46 GMT -6
Well no it won't. All starships are equiped with enertial dampers so that the ship, crew, and things on the ship are not affected by accelaretion, decelaretion, and turns. Starfleet would have design them to handle a full stop. But yes a pursuing ship would be following at a elevation higher or lower than the lead ships course. The lead ship could adjust their course to be in the way then stop. So would both ships be destroyed, or would the trail ship just pass thru. how big of a object can a warp field handle, or the nav shields.
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Luke
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Post by Luke on Feb 17, 2010 12:01:51 GMT -6
I wouldn't think there'd be any stress at all since the ship is warping space and the warp bubble itself is the only thing "moving".
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Post by stark on Feb 20, 2010 8:53:08 GMT -6
What exactly do you mean by "complete stop"? The veliocity of any object can only be measured in relation to another object. If you mean turning off the engines then I guess nothing will happen except that pursuing ship will catch the first.
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Atoz 77
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Post by Atoz 77 on Feb 23, 2010 11:13:36 GMT -6
Here's the way I see it -- Maneuvering at warp speed causes stress on the ship's structure because the warp envelope itself is being stressed. That's why starships seem to "bank" when they turn at warp speed, because the orientation of the warp envelop is changing.
But neutralizing warp entirely wouldn't put so much stress on the ship because (as Luke said), your virtual velocity is only possible in hyperspace anyway. Your virtual momentum is instantly translated into pseudogravity and tachyons (that flash of light as you go to warp), which propagates backwards along your path, and the ship itself comes to a dead stop. This gravity wave would probably not harm a ship following directly behind you, because it would ride it like a cork in a body of water. Any large object, like a planet or a star, would probably feel some ill effects.
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kynan101
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Post by kynan101 on May 14, 2010 12:43:40 GMT -6
i think that nothing would happen to either ship until the 1 got destroyed in the following fight
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