Pseudo-Gravity Generator

Pseudo-Gravity Generators are a class of machine which create large-scale force fields that accelerate matter through a designated volume. These devices are commonly used to provide the artificial gravity of starships, but are also used in cargo handling facilities, factories, and vehicle suspensions. Although far more energy-intensive than many artificial gravity systems (such as by centrifugal force, or magnetic devices), arcane pseudo-gravity generators have the benefits of accelerating material uniformly within the active space, providing a uniform force in a variety of directions, keeping the field contained to the active space, and negating the need for special hardware such as magnetic attachments.

Operating Principle

Pseudo-gravity devices make use of Resonant Arcane Dynamics to produce an arcane force field in a designated volume. Some smaller devices simply provide a gravity-like attractive or repulsive field (often directed in a cone shape), while those installed on ships and other larger machines use cages made of magically active materials such as Mithral to define a volume in which force can be applied from a variety of directions. Pseudo-gravity cages are usually faceted, as it was until recently believed to be impossible to produce a stable, uniform field from curved cage surfaces. However, it is computationally difficult to achieve such an effect, and it is currently only possible using certain curve types. While early experiments focused on paraboloids, algorithms for producing fields from other shapes are now available and work to further generalize the devices is ongoing.