![]() ![]() His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks - and all without violating Einstein’s law of relativity. It began back in 2012 when Dr Harold White, a team leader from NASA’s Engineering Directorate, announced that he and his team had begun work on the development of a warp drive. It’s no secret that NASA has been taking a serious look at Faster-Than-Light (FTL) technology in recent years. After all, we started this project wanting to capture the awe and wonder that comes from space exploration.Ĭome hell or high water, that is what we intend to do! Stay tuned for more on this book as it develops… And throughout all that, a sense of high adventure as well. New waves of settlers would overwhelm the old with a sense of future shock…īut I’m venturing into spoiler territory here! Rest assured, when the anthology is complete, there’s going to be plenty of these kinds of technological, social and predictive issues being explored. And by the 22nd/23rd centuries, when the story is taking place, the leaps and bounds taking place in that amount of time would be immense. This would mean that those who came next would be at least a century ahead in terms of development. Whereas the First Wave of colonists would take 100+ plus years to get to a star within our stellar neighborhood, subsequent waves would only need a few years. ![]() It’s all in keeping with the idea of rapidly advancing technology, and how the effects of space travel exacerbate the gap between new and obsolete. ![]() And whereas the First Wave ships would rely on antimatter engines that would spew energy out the back, the new ships would have no thruster nozzles to speak of. Which would mean that the vessels have hulls composed of nanofabricated materials that are completely seamless. As you can see, he too pictured a ship that would have a ring-shaped torus, but is more suited to our near-future aspirations of exploration.įor the sake of Yuva, the Second Wave ships need to be especially exotic. The design was inspired in large part by the IXS Enterprise designs by Mark Rademaker, an artist who sought to visualize what a spaceship that relied on the Alcubierre Drive might look like. This indicates that the vessel comes equipped with an Alcubierre Drive, a proposed FTL system that is currently being investigated by NASA’s Engineering Directorate.īased on the field equations of theoretical physicist Miquel Alcubierre, the drive does not exceeding the speed of light within its local frame of reference, but allows a spacecraft to contract space in front of it and expand space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel. Note the torus ring that encloses the ship. Here, the ship is one of three that would be bringing the Second Wave to Yuva. Whereas the First Wave would be arriving in ships that relied on relativistic engines (slower than the speed of light), subsequent “waves” would be using something a little more advanced. As a result of this tinkering, I began to look at some of our concept art and began to ponder making some changes…īasically, in the anthology me and my writer’s group are crafting, there would be multiple waves of settlers arriving at the planet known as Gliese 581 g (aka. ![]() More news on the collaborative writing front! A few weeks back, I found myself tinkering with some of the ideas for the upcoming anthology known as Yuva – the one that deals with space exploration and colonization in the not-too-distant future. ![]()
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