Fixing Maneuver Drive Physics...

I've been working on a fix for justifying the volume-based maneuver drives...
It goes something like this:
	Maneuver drives (not grav thrusters) don't actually produce thrust
or force.  What they do is distort the local gravity field...not just play
with it like lower tech grav, but actually forms a gravitational gradient
(volume of warped grav. volume is porportional to the maneuver drive
volume...) around/within the ship.  The 'thruster plates' garbage can be
explained away thru pseudogobbldeygook 8-) .  The Inertial Compensators
take this field (which should be uneven, stronger closer to the drives...)
and even it out so that everything in the ship doesn't fall towards the
front 8-) .

Comments? Suggestions? Let's hear 'em, i'd prefer not to have to junk the
current rules, even if they need revision (yay metlay).

- - -george

george william herbert
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