Subsystem: Inertial Dampening System

==Subsystem: Inertial Dampening System==
Power Cost: 3 power per round
The tremendous accelertion and deceleration involved with space travel and starships combat would be enough to cause fatel injury to everyone aboard ship if not for the inertial damopining field (IDF). The IDF is a series o f variable-symmetry force fields which absorbs and counteracts the forces generated by starship travel. Although normally maintained at low level throughout the ship, it can respond to data from flight control to redistrivute itself along vectors directly opposing the force generated (there is a millisecond delay while this occurs, so drastic maneuvers may cause some crewmembers to stumble or fall out of ther chairs). Thus he crew on a ship usually feels a little, if anything, when the ship accelerates, decelerates, or manevers.) 
Starfleet Protocals require a ship to have at least one main IDF generator for every two class sizes; many vessels have more. It should also have at least one backup IDF generator for every two main generators (again, many ships have more).
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