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"They had a mothballed Slaughter-Class cruiser from M34 that they were using for spare parts. Thanks to Aldrich's records, we identified that the cruiser had a near-unique engine modification called Scartix Engine Coils, which can provide up to a 25% boost in acceleration. It also had a couple of other archeotech devices, like Gravitic Accelerators for strike craft and a Contra-Grav Manoeuvre Drive, which supplements acceleration and manoeuvring. The drive is especially effective near planets and other massive bodies, so you can use it to fly much closer to a planet, or within the thicker layers of a gas giant." - Thorfinn (c0152)
The Environmental Suit STC is valuable not just because of the new alloy, but also because it offers a new way to create ceramite armour at scale. As in, I could use infantry-grade ceramite, the best type, on a void ship. For the environmental suit, it means its armour is 2% thinner and 7% denser, and that it provides an epic 11% increase in toughness for its weight. The new ceramite will be excellent for improving our MOA infantry shields, but when coupled with the new alloy, it is highly resistant to physical projectiles. It could likely survive multiple kraken rounds fired by a heavy bolter. In practice, the person inside the armour would be injured by shock waves propagating through it before one could fire something strong enough to breach the new armour. The new manufacturing method requires substantial power because it relies on manipulating gravity and works only in zero-gravity or microgravity environments. It works at any scale with any grade of ceramite and is compatible with both the new alloy and standard plasteel for creating armour plates. "E-SIM, this method suggests I could potentially reduce the weight of all our void ships by at least fifteen per cent while maintaining the same level of protection. The lower reaction-mass expenditure alone would pay for the increased energy cost of manufacturing new armour plates in under a year of continuous acceleration at one gravity, and even faster at higher velocities. There has to be a downside to this; it's just too good to be true." E-SIM has not responded to my commentary, which is never a good sign. I continue to review the STC and identify additional improvements. Knowledge of gravity manipulation will likely lead to better artificial gravity for void ships and help integrate and replicate the Gravitic Accelerators Quaani picked up. It might make the production of anti-grav hover tanks possible. We would have to find an inexpensive, high-output power source for a hover tank and be willing to disregard the dubious logic of using complex machines in a highly destructive environment when they aren't necessary. (c0171)
"The most unusual devices we have access to are Scartix Engine Coils and Gravitic Accelerators, but we have yet to replicate them successfully. Neither of those will help with stealth, but they would greatly aid in chasing down scattering Orks." - Eire (c0219)
The (Torchbearer) hangars in the Cathedral and Castellum superstructures have been redone as the usual double-ended hangars, and our looted Gravitic Accelerators have been added to the runways. Strike craft and shuttles can now launch and be retrieved much faster, but more importantly, in whole squadrons one after the other, rather than individual launches of single Strike-Craft. We still can't replicate Gravitic Accelerators. However, our understanding of gravity from the Cargo Container STC means it's more a matter of time. I expect that within the decade, all our hangars will be equipped with them. (c0251)
"Most Imperial vessels, Chaos or otherwise, do not stack their Void Craft as densely as we do. Their hangars are open spaces, spread across multiple decks, not mechanised stacks of Void Craft stored behind bulkheads that then get fed into Gravitic Accelerators and fired out of armoured ports. They still stock a similar number of Void Craft, but use far more space to do so. This is why I am uncertain how far any fires could have spread." During our refit at Scintilla, we finally replicated the Gravitic Accelerators and rebuilt all our hangars to accommodate the new launch system. We also reorganised all our Void Craft so that we would not fall prey to the same attack we just used on the three Chaos fleets. It's how we came up with this specific attack in the first place. - Laisren (c0330)
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