The Ego Bundle tends to get ticked off when Communal isn’t the very best at something. They will bring out concerns such as, why haven’t we hacked into a battlestar to appropriate the battle suite. Then we could think strategically like a, well, like a battlestar.
Logic Sector can usually explain the reality of things to out-of-sorts Ego and other bundles.
Crimson: The original home world of Rufus’ people is Crixxmixon, generally called Crimson. It is located 100 light years from Prime; 1,500 light years from Earth. It was conquered by Cygnus Prime more than 2,000 Eyears <Earth years> ago. The people had a highly developed civilization and were subsequently relocated to another planet, called Dahcrimson. Dahcrimson means ‘those taken of Crimson’ or ‘those made from Crimson’.
Crowd-cloud: A controlled nanite superstructure arranged via electromagnetic fields which provides a 3-dimensional display of data from a holopid or similar device. Sophisticated devices are available that display a cloud of sufficient size to allow viewing by a small audience. That’s commonly called a crowd-cloud.
Cruiser: This is a military ship of the Empire, grossing approximately 10,000 tonnes. It appears to be a smaller version of the dreadnaught class ship. The main weapon is a GRASER <Gravity Scalar Energetic Radiation>. The weapon employs weaponized gravitational waves with a wide range of settings.
Cygnus Prime: The local name is Dahkoreen. Dahkoreen means, those made superior. This is the planet that is head of the Empire.
Dahcrimson: The relocation world of the people of Crimson is Dahcrixxmixon, generally called Dahcrimson. It is located 125 light years from Prime; 1,525 light years from Earth. It means, those of Crimson. We bet Rufus and Steve are going to find out they are long lost cousins at some point.
Dahkoreen: See Cygnus Prime.
Dahnahaash: Pronounced, dah-nah-haash. An advanced race of beings who are ultimately responsible for the Empire as configured with Cygnus Prime as the head race. The motivations of the Dahnahaash are not known. The location of their home world(s) is not known. It is known that 3,000 e-years ago their technology was already well in advance of current human or general Prime technology.
There does appear to be some Dahnahaash level technology in use on Cygnus Prime, such as the portal gate dome covers. There is something very odd about the Dahnahaash. They seem to be only partly here, physically, in this realm. They tend to fade in and fade out. That may not be true of all Dahnahaash. There may be many different Dahnahaash races.
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. An agency of the U.S. government tasked with, among other things, developing advanced technological systems to aid in the defense of the United States of America.
Destroyer: A destroyer is a League warship that, at the time of the Viper Operation, was capable of reaching a maximum velocity of 10-times light speed. A warp bubble is opened using quantum techniques. The process is classified and not necessarily well understood.
Quputer modeling with considerable trial and error, and some educated guessing, pointed to the methodology. A lack of exotic materials moved the design teams away from the better understood methods of warp field engagement such as Alcubierre drives. The quantum method actually requires far less energy than a standard model warp field generator. T
he actual process of travel, while different than the standard model, is, on the macro-scale, similar to that of an Alcubierre process. The ship rides within the bubble, ‘hidden’ from macro-space, allowing faster than light travel. As with the more standard process, the bubble moves along as space-time is forced to expand fore, and contract aft. Essentially, a positive gravity wave is generated behind the ship, and a gravity-well is generated in front of the ship. The ship is hidden within the bubble from the limitations of space-time and can surf along at superluminal speed.
There are numerous theories as to how the gravitational wake is generated apart from the trick of mass. By trick of mass is meant the use of the exotic negative mass material used with conventional material to mimic extreme mass. In the correct configuration the result is a low total mass requirement that replaces the extreme mass needed to warp space-time that we see in normal macro-space.
As compared to the standard warp model, something quite different occurs with the quantum bubble and motion process. A bubble is opened and closed using techniques that are similar to those used for quantum travel gates. League FTL scientists had a good deal of data from the Warped Project. Using quputer modeling to augment trial-and-error, they were able to ‘tune’ a single gate and open a spherical warp-type bubble. Then there was an immediate surprise. When the bubble opened, it began to move on its own. It was actually difficult to contain it.
Some theorize the bubble somehow interacted with quantum ‘froth’ or ‘foam’, and that is what ultimately produces a gravitational wave process. Of course, there are a lot of other theories.
For what it’s worth, the theory that makes the most sense to me is the interaction of the bubble with flexible quantum regions that undergird space-time, regions that are able to compress and rebound. As the theory goes, higher frequency wave vibrational fronts actually compress space. That initiates an opposite rebound effect. The altering compression and rebound propel the bubble and the ship inside the bubble goes along for the ride. We aren’t yet able to readily observe and study that quantum region, only the resulting gravitational waves.
DEW Howitzer: Directed Energy Weapon canon. The design is still top-secret. It is likely a very upscaled model of the Longarm blaster. See: HIRC-DEW
Dirty Feet: One of the two special operations squads most favored by the Shockwave team. They like to work with these guys. Staff Sargent O’Malley and PFC (Private First Class) Rodgers are on this team.
Dreadnaught: This is the primary military ship of the Empire, grossing approximately 20,000 tonnes. The main weapon is a GRASER <Gravity Scalar Energetic Radiation>. The weapon employs weaponized gravitational waves
