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Approved Tech Apate Drive System (ADS)

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Apate Drive System

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a stealthy new engine for future submissions and role-playing.​
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market​
Model: Apate Drive System (ADS)​
Modularity: None​
Production: Semi-Unique​
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SPECIAL FEATURES:
  • Impulse chemical engines offer stealth options which make ships using them almost impossible to detect by all but the very most sensitive military-grade scanners, and even then required ships using those scanners to be practically on top of them in most cases.
  • Ion engines, while unable to navigate in close range with other ships, sensor arrays, etc. without exponentially greater chance of detection, allowed impressively high speeds and sustained flight with stealth effects which gained likelihood of success at greater distances.
  • Effective cooling system, used with both engines, lowers overall heat signature and prevents overheating even while traveling at high speeds and maximum burn.
STRENGTHS:
  • Incredibly stealthy design provides two distinctive options, and the ion element allows for impressive speeds and maneuverability with strong stealth enhancement against ships and sensors at over 200m from the ship.
  • Close-range impulse option doesn’t burn through fuel at the same rates as previous variants on this system.
WEAKNESSES:
  • Ion engines only have real effectiveness against detection beginning at 200m, while closer the risk of detection climbs exponentially.
  • Chemical engines, if used at maximum burn, yield only thirty minutes or so of effective use before fuel reserves are exhausted, leaving only the ion engines available and severely risking detection at close range.
  • Chemical engines’ use eliminates the availability of the maneuvering jets, which are ion in nature, leaving ships notably less maneuverable. Furthermore, speed is greatly reduced (except at ‘full-burn’).
DESCRIPTION:
Like the revolutionary Caecius Drive System before it, the ADS uses two distinct sublight drives: A low-emission ion drive in a ring-shaped configuration surrounding a chemical thrust drive, baffled for absolute silence. The ion drive is capable of sustaining exceptionally high speeds, but leaves a terrifically minimal ion trace, making it very hard to detect without large powerful military-grade sensors or dedicated advanced sensors, calibrated to pick up on the slightest trace of ion emissions. Using a specially-designed vectral system which does not trap ions in the same way as the Caecius system had, the new design more efficiently scattered ions leaving only a very faint, indistinct pattern able to be detected usually only at close ranges. This allows the user to maintain stealth at ranges of roughly two hundred meters and beyond and yet attain very high speeds, either in short bursts or with prolonged use, with a relatively very low chance of detection. To further aid in this, thrust trace dampers and anti-ion emission tracers were added, as well as a supercooled and carbonite-infused cooling system paired with a high efficiency heat sink, thereby reducing the engines’ heat signature and aiding it to operate.​
For the chemical engines, supercooled, spin-sealed Tibanna-X was the answer. Whereas Tibanna-X was an effective stealth fuel, because it burned quickly, is not radioactive, and was already supercooled, it left behind it only a small trace, which the vectrals quickly dissipated to make it extremely difficult to detect, it had the adverse effect of being used up quickly, leaving only a few hours of use available and requiring pilots to pick and choose when to cautiously use this advantage. Still, the allure of its incredible stealth capability saw it in continual use into the present day. By shortening the engines to impulse rather than continual burn, the same effect could be achieved with even greater stealth and prolonging the fuel reserves, however speed and maneuverability (since the maneuver thrusters were powered by the ion engines, and not the chemical ones) were lowered significantly. An option exists to go to ‘full burn’, however this expends the fuel exponentially, causing it to have roughly thirty minutes of ‘burn time’ before giving out. This option was only ever used by experienced pilots as a very last resort.​
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Runi Verin

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  • Impulse chemical engines offer stealth options which make ships using them almost impossible to detect by all but the very most sensitive military-grade scanners, and even then required ships using those scanners to be practically on top of them in most cases.

With the very high degree of stealth described here, I'm going to have to ask production be dropped to Semi-Unique. Definitely crosses into the restricted level at this point.
 
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