Science

[lIceColon]

Here's something I made up:

A trade lane is a space railroad that transports ships at otherwise impossible or difficult to achieve speeds by accelerating them within an artificial gravity well, typically used within the same star system due to the relatively short range of its effects. Once it is disrupted (or the ship leaves the trade lane by “dropping out”), the artificial gravity well is reversed and (especially if the ship is in the middle of the trade lane route), the ship undergoes massive deceleration which, if not pre-anticipated and preprogrammed in the inertial dampener, could cause intense G-forces as dampening the G-forces associated with trade lane use requires re-routing most of the ship’s power to the inertial dampeners and for a short time straining it to up to magnitudes above of its typical operational capacity. A ship without capable inertial dampeners will not drop out of trade lanes safely, while there are ships (such as combat ships) with sufficient power on standby devoted to inertial dampening.

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No atmosphere? GTFO.
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