Dancing with the stars
Do you know that odd feeling in a large crowd, that energy in a dance, how you can understand mimes without words? psychological effects they would be ruled out, but upon further research, it seems that there is something else going on. It has long been theorized that reality consists of more than the 3+1 dimensions we normally experience, some theories even going up to 11. However, what nobody expected was that conventional matter has a presence or an effect on what exists there.
When we got hold of some odd dancing patterns from watchers it became clear that suitable movement from enough 3D entities can partially unfold those higher dimensions in our time space. The reason it hasn't been discovered so far is that at human scale, the movements would be so complex and require such accuracy that no human could do them on purpose. The movement of fingers or a stick may be enough, in the right environment, to create a visible effect possibly leading to the birth of some wizardry tales; but the sheer impossibility of replicating it makes it unviable.
However, we have spaceships.
Large, heavy and able to make patters tens or hundreds of kilometers big, those can produce significant effects, much more reliably. A few hundred fighters could enter a movement pattern and, in their midst, release dimensions with varying effects depending on their movement, similar to dancing. Most commonly, it would be a distortion in space of some kind (with, for example, polka being noted as amplifying gravity waves). However, a partial unfolding of spatial and maybe even temporal dimensions can also cause localized changes in physics, causing such things as spontaneous fireballs and other energetic or anti-energetic effects
As close as it resembles magic, it does still have limits. It requires large dancing patterns of spacecrafts, the effects are localized within the pattern or for a short distance beyond it and the effects cease when the pattern is disrupted. Exception being with objects and phenomena created by the effects of the dance, without being the effect themselves ( example: the dance creates an oscillating gravity field that causes a wave. The oscillation ceases as the dance does, but the gravity wave keeps existing)
Still, we can dance the universe into submission.
Now something for later:
Modular Battleship Voltron
Testudo was our first step in hull mobility. But why stop there? if we can have floating armour, why not weapons? power? engines?
With this design, we decided to abandon the concept of the single hulland embrace quantum locking components.
At the core of the battleship, there is a destroyer sized armoured core which, on its own, has basic independent capabilities: a grav drive, power, life support. However, instead of having weapons, it carries a much extended version of the Testudo control system and the power generators and computers to match. This means that around this core we can attach modules to build an actual, functioning battleship, ranging from corvette to frigate sized. The main difficulty if this design is being able to link all the modules so that they can work together, which is generally achieved by microwave arrays to transmit power, although docking ports are also present in modules to connect more directly and sturdily to each other for interlinked operations ( for example, charging a WMG). In battle, those modules can be spread or retracted at will, protecting the most important modules or opening to avoid damage from big weapons. In case a bore big enough to take all the ship at once doesn't exist, they can split up across multiple small ones, to be recovered by the core on the other side.
Battleship is, in this case, a misnomer. The core is destroyed sized and the modules are even smaller. However, the core alone is able to support a total mass cmparable to a battleship. With extensions and upgrades, there is no reason it couldn't be scaled further. Since the core has base independent functionality on its own, it is the only "must have" piece, with other modules beng built as needed or possible.
In addition to the Voltron core, some modules are provided, in order of importance for the initial roster:
-a Frigate size large mount
-a corvette size power module
-a corvette size drive module
-a corvette size medium mount
-a corvette size shield module (boreshield)
-a corvette sized triple small mount
-a corvette size armour module (taking lessons from Epee and Anvil)
Basically: a destroyer sized core, to which we can add components up to battleship size. Ship not being a single hull, but rather a collection of quantum locked hulls slaved to the core.
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