A replica of a singularity drive at the Imperial Museum of Science on New Rocheron.
Introduction:
The singularity drive was the most advanced creation of the
Illithid-Dilug Intergalactic Empire of New Rocheron, often being called the Empire's magnum opus. It was an incredibly advanced device that allowed a pilot to create and destroy nearly anything, go anywhere in
The Universe nearly instantly, and made them practically immortal. While there used to be thousands of singularity drives, no operational devices are known to have survived to the present day, after they were outlawed in the aftermath the Second Cataclysm.
Functions:
The main function of a singularity drive was to store any matter in a contained singularity and remove it for construction, which gave the device its name. Each singularity was a star that had gone through
Forced Stellar Collapse. High-energy lasers could deconstruct nearly any form of matter and add it to the singularity. An advanced device called a matter decompressor could extract matter from the singularity which was then used to 3D print nearly anything, including living organisms.
The singularity drive could utilize Plane Gliding to transport its pilot anywhere in the universe and other planes in mere seconds. The incredible power generated from the singularity allowed a pilot to plane glide nearly at will. The nature of plane gliding prevented more than two people from travelling at once, leaving the
Drift Drive as the superior choice for mass transport.
Additionally, the singularity could make its pilot practically immortal. It emitted an invisible "bubble" around the pilot that allowed them to breath and prevented any damage due to pressure loss. It also protected from all but the absolute harshest environments in space. Using the device, a pilot could touch the surface of a star or float just above the event horizon of a black hole. The only known objects that could still kill a pilot were the jet cones of magnetars and the edge of the universe.
In the case of pilot injury, the singularity drive could create missing body parts and print them directly onto the body. This technology was utilized to temporarily exchange organic limbs for hardy prosthetic ones, and vice versa.
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