Gravity Generators
Generators are used aboard starships or space stations to simulate natural gravity. Comprised of a network of small generators and graviton stabilizers working together to provide a proper sense of 'down'. The number of networks is dependent upon the size of the ship. Each network can support up to 400 small generators with slightly overlapping fields so there are no ‘’dead’’ spots.
The gravity field itself is created by a controlled stream of gravitons, much like those produced by the tractor beam. These generate the gravity field, each gravity pulse having a lifetime of a few pico seconds (10 to the power of minus 12). The field is gentle enough to allow natural walking without a gravity gradient from head to foot, long a problem in brute-force physical centripetal systems. Each generator would be approximately 30 metres from each other.
There is a link to the inertial damping field system to minimise motion shock during flight, i.e. you won’t suffer astronaut gravitation stress during large accelerations.
In the event of a power failure, the gravity generators will continue to function up to 4 hours because they run off their own independent power sources. During that time they will fall from about 1g to 0.8g. After 4 hours they will rapidly fail.
