Chapter 225 - 153: Initiating the 2nd Future Line
Have we already returned?
Shen Shi glanced at the time.
They left the main fleet and halted their navigation for over three hours. Even if the main fleet exited the curvature navigation state, the speed was still extremely fast. How long did it take Iwen to start and catch up? Ten minutes?
Ten minutes wasn’t enough for acceleration, right.
"Did you really not jump?" Shen Shi felt his understanding was once again challenged.
"No." Despite using Primordial Energy to suppress emotion in work mode, Shen Shi seemed to hear grievance in the reply, "The captain’s order is absolute, Iwen only used the short-distance curvature bubble fast navigation function."
Short-distance curvature bubble fast navigation...
Another brand new technology.
Although the name alone gives a rough idea of what kind of technology this is.
However, in Shen Shi’s understanding, initiating curvature navigation directly without a period of acceleration is an extremely dangerous behavior, because the faster the speed, the easier it is to interfere with relative curvature parameters. This is why during interstellar travel, it’s often necessary to go through a period of conventional engine acceleration before starting the curvature engine, and even more so during the deceleration, to exit the curvature engine months away at sub-light speed from the destination before starting to decelerate.
The space defense part of the Planet Fortress is based on this point.