Artificial gravity

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Technical

  • Artificial graviton generation used to provide for gravity fields, inertial dampers within starships
  • Starfleet artificial gravity provided by networked gravity generators, commonly known as gravity plating or gravity net (TNG Novel: The Buried Age; DS9: "Explorers", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River"; VOY: "Alice")
    • Superconducting stators embedded into duranium plating (TNG Technical Manual; TNG Novel: The Buried Age; VOY: "Alice")
    • Gravity strength can be adjusted by accelerating or braking stators (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
    • Designed to fail safe, continuing to spin via inertia and generate gravity for up to four hours (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
  • On Starfleet vessels, during warp drive operation gravity system is slaved to warp subsystem to better provide operation of inertial dampers (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)
    • System transition removes overrides of internal gravity field setting, reverting to default configuration (TNG Novel: A Time to Die)

Related Devices

  • Grav weights (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Exercise accessory enhancing strength of artificial gravity field, providing greater resistance (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)