GRAVITY GENERATION

In today’s spacecraft internal gravity is artificially produced from specialized polarized gravity sources. These generators are so advanced now that their produced gravity is for the crew indistinguishable as the gravity generated on planets.

This gravity is generated by the same technology that drives the ship through space, and relies on the same revolutionary material, driver coil material. This material acts as a transducer, interconverting other sources of energy into gravity and vice versa. In a gravitational generator, superconductor supplies energy to the disc of driver coil material, which collects its energy mostly from the waste heat of the spacecrafts engine and other processes.

The material in the generator needs only a small amount of energy as the field it produces has been tailored to trail across light-years of space but only the local few metres, so precise has the understanding of this material become that fields that exactly mimic a planets pull can be generated, but their effect only be felt within the confines of a ship.

Its polarized nature mean that the pull they generate can be only felt in one direction and that they can be stacked across decks without fear that people will get stuck to the ceiling by generators above (unless of course someone makes a mistake in installation and puts one the wrong way up.).

This technology has become ubiquitous with spacecraft gravity generation. Other methods of artificial gravity, now only encountered in history books, consisted of application of acceleration on the spacecraft, either by continuous thrust, (something that became impractical if only because of the inconstancy of velocity), and centrifugal systems, which spun the spacecraft, (but caused strange gradients to felt across the ship, and also hampered design possibilities).