/sci/ - Science & Math

To make space travel much less time-consuming we could have them use an FTL drive based on the Alcubierre warp metric while ignoring the engineering aspects of it. Because of that, ships will only warp to a location outside of the star system where their intended destination is located due to the massive gravitational effects it generates which would tear apart any nearby celestial bodies so they would have to travel the rest of the way there at sublight speeds which would take months as opposed to years of traveling the whole way at sublight speeds. Space combat will make use of ships that also carry giant mecha around 10 meters tall (that's the smallest estimate for size that I can think of that could still fit the nuclear lightbulb rockets they will use as their main engines and power source) instead of fighters as wing flaps would be useless in a vacuum and would require an excess of vernier thrusters to perform the same types of high speed maneuvers while Active Mass Balance Auto-Control or AMBAC would eliminate all of that by using the precise movements of the mechanical limbs to produce a gyroscopic effect to reorient itself in place of vernier thrusters.