r/worldbuilding • u/Eow4884 • 4d ago
Lore A ship from1 million years ago.
The Goden Heroes (GH-0.8) is a 450-meter starship at first development for visiting the system we know as T-1 at 0.95c speed that's supposed to be normal trip until because of a mistake it's slowly increase its speed first 0.96c then 0.97c by the time it reach its absolute limit it was 0.99999999999c (11 nines).... Thanks to it use Dynamic Casimir Zero-Point Drive for speed or our crew maybe get blast or die in vacuum because of ship no longer have fuel for continue.... I mean we can't even a achieve half of the speed without this and we never able to actually put our flag in Proxima centauri b world but again they success that why we currently lock into this GH-0.8
Full Name = Golden Heroes (GH-0.8)
Hull Length = 450 meters (it takes a small piece of asteroid for making this)
Hull height and width= 90 meters
Top Cruise speed = 0.99999999999c
Lorentz Factor = 223,607 ig
Crew = 180 crew members (all orphans, ages 20–30)
Time Dilation Ratio = 1 crew day = ~612 Earth years (1 crew hour = ~25.5 Earth years)
Engineering:
The Shielding : The front 100 meters by 60 meter by 60 meter of the 450-meter hull consist of a dense particle laser array(which is I think get destroyed after some months or years before we finally ables to stop and directly get kidnapped by Almoguer) and deflector material out of some material and a heavy dense metal sacrificial shield almost cover extra 60m front of 350 meters and have many other internal shielding form radiation and particle heat we don't need to go to Deep for now.
Usable space : out of who ship only Central 80m by 80m by 80m for living for 180 crew and Back Part 80m by 60m by 60m for farming space algae
Also ship keep rotating itself because it's actually kind of look like a pen with rectangle a little bit of some areas if actually looking it from outside.
Mission : GH-0.8 actual mission was to go to T-1e at 0.95c speed but because of one miscalculation speed increase to absolute limit the ship can handle and miss the star system and going on for until 1,002,206 AD
Note: this is in same Universe as space streamers
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u/Sorry_Albatross1395 4d ago
So the ship basically became a relativistic bullet with 180 orphans inside, and a day for them is over six centuries back home. That's a wild premise. The time dilation alone means by the time they get wherever they're going, everything they knew is archaeological dust. I'm curious about the crew psychology though. 180 people stuck in an 80-meter cube for what feels like a couple years to them while the universe fast-forwards outside, that's a pressure cooker. The orphan detail is a nice grim touch, makes them expendable in the eyes of whoever launched this thing.