IRMM~ Doc: Reactors

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✠ Dark Matter Reactor/Engine

Process of harvesting dark matter is so exotic and problematic because it's not visible and has no weight. It bends light when it passes through it and affects gravity. The only way to harvest it is to travel far away from Sirius or find large enough empty gaps between systems where mass of the matter doesn't equal the space in total, and then artificially increase the gravity in a large area to push dark matter onto itself.

(gravitational lensing of a distant star in a different cluster)

The function of a dark matter reactor relies on simply affecting gravity by forcing matter on dark matter, causing a great amount of push force. If this process is repeated on a harmonic frequency of the ship hull. The Ship using this device can move through space undetected using gravity itself (slingshotting itself) and be virtually impossible to detect to conventional trail analyzers. Piezoelectric properties of certain materials can be employed to generate energy for the entire ship from the gravitational waves of the engines.

(artistic impression of dark matter)

Unfortunatelly, this kind of Reactor/Engine requires trips to no-mans-land away from Sirius in order to "refuel" and the reactor itself may cost more than several Dreadnoughts. Dark matter itself has a value of several billions per milligram in scientific communities. On the other hand, a prototype of it has the ability to sneak anywhere and requires little to no maintenance or refueling until the mission is done, as the ship may appear to be a lifeless pile of garbage.

oorp notice

Dark matter in Munich doesn't make sense as dark matter is speculated to be the empty space and a gravity force that repels matter (as light)

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