Faster than Warp Drive Discussion thread.

[valkyrie013]

Was just surfing the Internet for something and thought about the "faster than Warp" drives that have popped up in Cannon.

Ones that stand out are TransWarp ( Usually Borg) Quantum Slipstream, and Proto-Warp (Prodigy)

Now we can talk about any and all, but this first one, had a thought. Proto Warp, How does that work? Now I know it makes use of dual warp cores and the "Proto" Drive that contains a proto star ( sure.. we'll go with that) but how does it propel the ship? in use the ship morphs to expose a 3rd nacelle and pops off 4000 Ly in a blink.
So the my thougts are..
1. In all the things I can think of, the proto star acts as a capacitor for some very large power output, and the 3rd nacelle is rated to handle that power burst.
2. Is it just a power burst regular warp drive, Or is it a variation of say quantum slipstream where they solved the instability question through shear power, and litterally juice the drive to 11 and punch through going super fast for a short time to balance out any equations.

Now the slipstream option to me sounds better because of.. Matter. When going regular warp speeds, sensors can detect and move objects, or change course to avoid things.. like suns. Now at 4000ly per lets say 5 minute burst, theres no sensor that can tell you whats ahead, and ZERO time to course correct at a Punched up regular warp. Slipstream makes a tunnel is subspace and subspace ( most of it) is empty, so no matter how fast your going your not going to hit anything.
Only thing is that in the show, the ship is at regular warp then pops off atleast once, which lends to the Super warp hypothisis.

anyways. .Thoughts?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Was just surfing the Internet for something and thought about the "faster than Warp" drives that have popped up in Cannon.

Ones that stand out are TransWarp ( Usually Borg) Quantum Slipstream, and Proto-Warp (Prodigy)

TransWarp from my memory has two types.

The Borg TransWarp Conduit & Voth-Style TransWarp.

The Borg's big advantage is that once the TransWarp Conduit is made, it can be artificially kept open and others can use it w/o having to spend extra energy while traversing it.
That offers huge logistical advantages.

Voth-Style TransWarp is closer to the PathWay Drive in that it can transition from Regular Warp to the TransWarp or PathWay Drive like faster state.
It's faster, offers smooth transitioning, even has somewhat similar VFX, not 100% the same, but similar enough.

Now we can talk about any and all, but this first one, had a thought. Proto Warp, How does that work? Now I know it makes use of dual warp cores and the "Proto" Drive that contains a proto star ( sure.. we'll go with that) but how does it propel the ship? in use the ship morphs to expose a 3rd nacelle and pops off 4000 Ly in a blink.
So the my thougts are..
1. In all the things I can think of, the proto star acts as a capacitor for some very large power output, and the 3rd nacelle is rated to handle that power burst.

IMO, you're on the right track, the Proto-Star inside the Proto-Core acts as a Super Capacitor + Battery + Generator that stores a lot of energy for "High Burst" use when you need a crazy amount of Energy to convert into Power for the short period of time.

2. Is it just a power burst regular warp drive, Or is it a variation of say quantum slipstream where they solved the instability question through shear power, and litterally juice the drive to 11 and punch through going super fast for a short time to balance out any equations.

The ProtoStar-Drive = Regular Warp Drive + Deploying Extra Warp Nacelle + Engaging Proto-Core to pump more Electro Plasma into all 3x Warp Nacelles Simultaneously while starting at a speed of Warp 9.97.
Then pushing the limits of all 3x Warp Nacelles for ≤ 1 minute.
The reason for doing that is they're going to be building up a crazy amount of heat in a short amount of time & depleting a lot of fuel from the Proto-Core.
So they need time after using it to cool off the Warp Nacelles, retract the 3rd Warp Nacelle, refill the Proto-Core with more fuel before using it again.

Now the slipstream option to me sounds better because of.. Matter. When going regular warp speeds, sensors can detect and move objects, or change course to avoid things.. like suns. Now at 4000ly per lets say 5 minute burst, theres no sensor that can tell you whats ahead, and ZERO time to course correct at a Punched up regular warp.

They obviously must have some sort of sensors, or else they would crash into things.

Slipstream makes a tunnel is subspace and subspace ( most of it) is empty, so no matter how fast your going your not going to hit anything.
Only thing is that in the show, the ship is at regular warp then pops off atleast once, which lends to the Super warp hypothisis.

anyways. .Thoughts?

Given how vast space is and how fast StarFleet Computers are, I'm sure they can make it work on detecting objects and avoiding crashing into things.