RE: [Rage at the Eclipse] - The First Phase
01-19-2019, 08:38 PM
Jones booted up the system and the entire ship shook as the engines came to life, feeding the hydrogen-antihydrogen grav drives until they could self sustain themselves and push them up off the ground. Eventually the shaking stopped and the system readouts told Jones what was going on around him... in cheap, line drawn, lime green on black 3D graphics with weapons fire depicted in red. No one was firing at them and the computer calculated a trajectory out of the atmosphere, accounting for the falling debris coming down from whatever was eclipsing the sun.
As he hit the throttle, indeed the very second, the bolts holding in the other seat on the bridge's cockpit broke loose sending the chair flying backwards with a great deal of force, which was unfortunate for whoever happened to have been sitting on it, or standing behind it at the time. The car int he cargo bay lurched upward and would have slammed back into the cargo bay door had it not hit the roof first, sending everyone, and everything, not securely fastened, flying across the bulkheads and landing in many painful piles.
Evidently the anti grav systems took a while to work their way around to inducing artificial gravity on the ship proper which would have prevented such whiplash, it was not quite clear if this meant the inertial dampeners would hold out when they entered and exited warp.
As he hit the throttle, indeed the very second, the bolts holding in the other seat on the bridge's cockpit broke loose sending the chair flying backwards with a great deal of force, which was unfortunate for whoever happened to have been sitting on it, or standing behind it at the time. The car int he cargo bay lurched upward and would have slammed back into the cargo bay door had it not hit the roof first, sending everyone, and everything, not securely fastened, flying across the bulkheads and landing in many painful piles.
Evidently the anti grav systems took a while to work their way around to inducing artificial gravity on the ship proper which would have prevented such whiplash, it was not quite clear if this meant the inertial dampeners would hold out when they entered and exited warp.