Antigravity Systems

Aside from the ease of mobility for work and play it affords, and the pleasing 'natural' feel, artificial gravity has long been known to be practically indispensable for off-world living, due to its necessity for cellular growth and health.

For the Galaxy-class Starship, hundreds of simple synthetic gravity generators provide the Class-M norm, tied in to the inertial dampers to counteract acceleration effects in an effect much like the tractor beam, each generator creates a gravity field by using a controlled stream of gravitons generated by a superconducting stator rotating at speeds over 125,540 rpm, powered by energy tapped from the electro-plasma system (EPS). The stator, built, built of thoronium arkenide, is in turn suspended within pressurized chrylon gas in the center of a hollow sealed chamber of anicium titanide 454, measuring only 50 cm in diameter and 25 cm tall. This device provides a graviton field of only a few picoseconds, so the decay time demands that generators be located every 30 meters or so. Thus, the ship at large includes two networks of 400 generators each in the primary hull, and two more networks of 200 each in the engineering hull. The generators are tied together by small waveguide conduits to allow 'field bleed' in cases of extreme maneuvering and inertial movement.

Each stator is built in suspended state, and is maintained with only a synchronizing EPS energy pulse every hour or so. In the case of EPS loss, the stator will provide an attraction field for up to 240 minutes, with a dip down to only about 0.8g predicted. Sinesopidal ribs on the inner surface of each generator's sealed cylinder absorb motions with an amplitude up to 6 cm per second.

The crew are protected from the effects of acceleration by the inertial damper field, which enables the ship to accelerate to high speeds without pulverizing ship's personnel.