Gravity Manipulation

Localized Gravity Manipulation

Used in deck plates and launching systems by controlling the apparent mass of certain superconductive alloys. Not perfectly controllable. All gravitational containment systems mass differently than would be expected, and when used in a deck plate, it will affect stuff on the bottom of the plate, or the ceiling of the next deck down. Decks are usually thick enough that this isn’t a problem.

Containment Gravity Manipulation

Used in containment systems for volatile substances and singularities captured for power generation. Similar technology to localized manipulation, except carefully calibrated to keep something centered in a container of some sort. Also uses localized gravitational manipulation to dampen the gravitational attraction of singularities contained within its field and compensate for their additional mass. Such mass compensation is effective only when in very close proximity to a high density gravity well, meaning that it can be used to hide the mass of a small singularity, but planets have too much radius to be cloaked in that way.

Wormhole Gravity Manipulation

See also Interstellar Travel

Used in the Wormhole Drive and Hawkingnet communications artificial wormholes are created by a finely tuned gravity field generated by a caster or receiver array. Casters are large v-shaped gravity manipulators built around self-rebuilding trans-uranic superconductors entangled with a nearby remote control interface. They are capable of manipulating gravity at a much larger distance than other gravity manipulation technologies and are used to generate the artificial gravity wells needed to create and target wormholes used for traveling.

Hawkingnet receiver arrays use similar methods to generate tiny wormholes for digital transmissions but are self-contained in a caster-adjacent triangular pyramid shaped box. Because the gravity manipulation for receiver arrays operate in much closer proximity to the wormholes they are generating the use of trans-uranics isn't required, so traditional conductive control linkages can be used. Active scanning arrays function similarly but simply include hardware for on-the-fly destination tuning in place of a series of pre-tuned Hawkingnet Hub destinations.