EVE Fiction

I was wondering what kind of fuel or engines our ships in eve use to move, and after searching the forums I couldn't find a single post about it so I thought it would be a good idea to put my science fiction experience to the test, and tell people what kind of fuel and engines I think our ships should use.

The engine I was thinking about is called a Ramjet fusion engine. In space there is actually a lot of hydrogen floating around, there is just so much space between the atoms though that we cannot see it. If a ship has some sort of cone on it, it could then scoop up a lot of the hydrogen floating around. The Ramjet engine will fuse these atoms together in a fusion reactor which creates a lot of energy. This can be made more efficient by creating catalysts for the hydrogen too. With this energy we can heat up what ever atoms are left after the fusion into super heated plasma. The engine will just send the plasma to the back of the ship, and it will want to expand naturally just like all gasses do. When the expanding plasma expands out the end of the ship, it will create thrust.

So there you have it, a engine that works in space and has an unlimited amount of fuel just like all eve ships should. The only problem is that a Ramjet engine cannot move faster then the speed of light, but I have an engine for that too.

Nothing can travel faster then the speed of light; there is a loophole around this though. During the big-bang when our universe was first created, it was actually expanding faster then the speed of light. Atoms were not traveling faster then light, but the empty space in-between them was. The nothingness in-between atoms was traveling faster then the speed of light. This is more useful then you think; if you could rapidly compress the space-time in front of you and expand the space-time behind you, you would give off the illusion that you are traveling faster then the speed of light. You would not be moving at all, but in a way you would actually be moving the universe instead. there are some problems with this though:

• The main problem is that you would have to find negative mass, which is different from anti-matter. Negative mass would have negative gravity, so instead of pulling mass together, it pushes it away. This is needed in order to expand space time at the end of your ship. Needless to say Negative mass has never been found before.


• Secondly, you would have to create a black hole at the front of the ship and hold a large ball of negative matter behind the ship. The two huge gravitational distortions could easily rip a ship apart. Also, the energy from the ramjet fusion engine is probably not enough to compress matter into a black hole at the front of the ship and hold enough negative mass at the other end any time a capsuleer wants to warp somewhere.


• Lastly, there is a slight chance that anyone who uses this method might be flung far into the future, given the fact that when you bend space-time you are bending space and time.

I really want to hear what you guys think, and I know this is a long post so my heart goes out to the eve players with long enough attention spans to read most of it

Then there is also the item database with construction components:
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Item_Database:Manufacture_&_Research:Components:Construction_Components

Minmatar use Plasma thrusters, Gallente use Ion engines, Amarr rely on Fusion thrusters and Caldari use a fairly exotic sounding "Magpulse" thrusters. As for what are the main differences between all of these.... I don't know. Maybe someone else does.

Also there's the each races preferred powerplants - Fission, Fusion, Antimatter, Graviton Reactors which probably explains a lot on the fuel they use, and I imagine normal thrusters use pretty much the same rocket fuel our current spaceships use.

I read the links you guys sent me, and maybe I'm just jealous, but it looks like to me CCP just threw a bunch of long words together as an excuse to explain their game mechanics. I would be surprised if anyone actually understands:

"The main device of jump gates is a so-called mass boson sphere, based on one of the fundamental physic fields that mediates mass, and thus interacts strongly with gravitational waves."

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technically all sublight is still done by rockets, they are fancy scifi engines but they are consuming a fuel and spitting the result out the back of the ship so they are still rockets. Event he impulse engines in Star Trek TNG are rockets.

The fuel these "rockets" burn is nearly unlimited in supply. The amount of energy created by these reactions is incredible, ergo you wouldn't need much of it at any time.

As for the top speed, I guess the easiest explanation is to blame it as a side effect of the fictional warp drive. It's a linear relationship, the bigger the mass of the ship (and hence its inertia) the lower the top speed. This isn't too far fetched. Theoretically in aeronautics there are concepts that state aircraft at transonic supersonic speeds will have "infinite drag" (to really simplify the theory).

THEN vs THAN.

Plasma Thrusters = propulsion created through the ionisation of gasses. I assume these ionised gasses are ejected out of the thrusters for propulsion.
Ion Thrusters = propulsion created through accellerating ion particles. This is actually an existing RL engine that will be used on future spaceships and satellites. Wikipedia on Ion Thrusters
Fusion Thrusters = propulsion through the fusion of atoms. This creates a huge amount of energy that can be used for propulsion.
Magpulse Thrusters = the use of magnetic fields to accellerate particles in such a way it can be used as propulsion. Together with Graviton Reactors, I can assume that Magpulse Thrusters are pulsing gravitons, which create temporary gravity fields. Possibly the gravitons are inverted so they create an anti-gravity field that propels the mass of the ship.


This is all assumptions though. :)

Gravitons are a theoretical particle of gravity. Not to be confused with the higgs-boson particle, which is the theoretical particle for mass.
Further, the gravitons, or anti-gravitons, still need to be ejected out of the ship, hence the thrusters :)

Has anyone taken note of how much capacitor charge any ship uses to warp, and if mass or warp speed appears to matter?