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Femtotech GUT drive - Data Panel
Basic Propulsion: Reaction Specific Impulse: up to 30 million Reaction Mass: Any baryonic matter (most commonly hydrogen) Minimum Technology Required: Picotech and femtotech Matter Manipulation: femtoscale Controller required: dedicated high toposophic hyperturing, with subordinate non-sentient routines First Introduced: Late First Federation? period by third singularity ai Used by: archailects, some advanced transapientech and godtech polities. "Transapient-friendly" and even a few "baseline-friendly" versions are also found (although rare) Used in: seraiph, advanced relativistic probes, advanced relativistic ships Advantages: very safe, can be any size (even nanoscopic), almost total efficiency, can use any baryonic matter, very high isp enables sub-relativistic and relativistic velocity Disadvantages: expensive, rare, depends on godtech or high transapientech, requires high toposophic dedicated hyperturing Construction Costs: This type of drive can only be created by high transapient or godtech civilizations, or by minds of more than second toposophic Running cost: Extremely cheap Normal Acceleration: 5G to >30 G) Normal top/cruising speed 0.9 C to high relativistic velocities Drive Details works by precision application of bosons to individual nucleons. A femtotech GUT reactor is much smaller and more efficient than a standard ultratetch GUT reactor |
The basic lower tech (ultratech) GUT reactors involve superheated, ultradense plasma in which reactions happen statistically and release lots of heat. In contrast, the much more advanced femtotech GUT reactors work by carefully applying the right sorts of bosons to individual nucleons. A femtotech GUT reactor is thus much smaller and much safer, but the ultimate source of the power is essentially the same.
