New technology

[Mickk]

So I am in the process of building a new ship for freelancer one that enhances technology that already exists. I am running into issues of balance and feasibility and would love any helpful thoughts or questions about it. With out boring everyone with every little detail I have come up with I will simply put up what its main design is and then let people add and/or ask things about it. (this includes drawbacks that make it less desirable.) So the main design is that it uses a smaller version of lane technology that makes it portable. In order to understand this correctly you have to understand how tradelanes work. Tradelanes compress the space between two points allowing your ship to cover more ground at a base speed. This ship employs the same technology except that it creates a compressed bubble instead of a tube. The ship is a cargo ship and the idea is that it doesn't need a trade lane to travel at or around a tradelane's speed. Again I am open to any help in completing this task. Here is a prototype model I have made.

http://i.imgur.com/ocMjb9x.png

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The bold/underlined section in the quote shows what I consider to be the major problem with your theory.......
If built into a ship and activated, I'm thinking that you would have one of several things happen;

A) Depending on the 'polarity'/'direction' of the system, any object (hull plates, engines that sort of thing) between the two points would try to move to the 'end' point, effectively destroying the ship
B) Loose objects inside the ship between the two points, assuming the ship holds together, would move from one end to the other at tradelane speeds...... probably ending with the destruction of the ship depends on how big/how much mass was involved.

I can only think of two things right now, but no doubt other people who are more familiar with the 'technology' involved can see other problems.

Of course, a ship with a 'portable tradelane' built into it would have other uses, assuming that a ship could be built to withstand the stresses involved..... think along the lines of a magnetic 'rail gun'.
Such a system would be capable of firing *very* large objects at high speed.
The mass and inertia of of a ship size 'shell' would be extremely destructive, despite it's relatively slow firing velocity......