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Artificial Gravity Generator
Artificial Gravity Generator
The crew of a starship is free to move about the ship without the problems of weightlessness because of a network of small gravity generators working together to provide the proper sense of "down". The gravity field itself is created by a controlled stream of gravitons, using the same physics principle as the ships tractor beam. Power is channeled into a hollow cylinder of anicium titanide 54, where a superconducting rotor of thoronium arkenide is suspended in a pressurized chrylon gas. Once set into motion, the rotor generates a graviton field gentle enough to simulate the gravitational pull of a standard Class M planet. Requiring only occasional energy, the rotor can continue to provide an attraction field for up to 4 hours after a power loss.