Title: Pirate Mothership views
Name: Nick Jacoubowsky
Country: USA
Software: Carrara Photo-Paint
Submitted: 17th August 2016
Another final image of my mothership. So, what makes it go? Strap yourself in. This is going to be a bumpy explanation. This mothership travels by means of There Drive. TD (also known as Whereness Transposition Flight but rarely referred to that way because the acronym is considered to be in poor taste) functions on the darkest physics principle of Whereness (discovered by Professor Paffleman The Unctuous in the Third Epoch of Special Events). This principle states that a particle’s position in space is a physical property of that particle, and it is a property that can be changed directly from one location to another location instantaneously. Old fashioned Kinetic Transposition (i.e. normal movement) involves shifting a particle through an infinite number points in space which, obviously, takes a lot of time and energy and is really boring. Whereness Transposition simply shifts the particle directly from Here to There, instantaneously bypassing all those boring infinite points in between. TD takes this subatomic principle and applies it to a single large object, such as, for example, a ginormous spaceship belonging to a megalomaniacal, narcissistic, sociopathic villain and his amoral, gullible followers. The top of the ship is the leading edge in interstellar flight (although the word “flight” isn’t quite appropriate “jitters” is better since the ship engaged in TD jumps from point to point to point to point, etc.). TD functions as follows. Hereum (a plasma distillation of Hereness from local space) is accumulated in Accretion Dishes at the top. It is then cascaded over the sides of the ship to the Collector Arcs below. From there, it enters the Transposition Converter where it is converted to Thereum (a plasma distillation for where you want to go). But Thereum can’t be released directly on Hereum infused particles. That would just blow things up. So a sample of Hereum is also cascaded from the Accretion Dishes to the Differential Core at the rear of the ship which also receives the manufactured Thereum. It then uses both elements to produce a Delta Burst that transposes the entire ship at once. But be warned, TD isn’t a “free lunch”. There are a few negative aspects to it, such as Shear Stress. Shear Stress is micro-shear fractures in the body of the ship that is most pronounced in the leading edge of the ship and decreases the further back you go. It can be mostly eliminated with a containment field, but there is still significant shearing in the leading 4-5 feet of ship. This is bad for solid materials but not gelatin. Therefore, the entire top (leading edge) of the ship is covered with a 10 foot thick layer of self-healing gel. This acts as a protective roof for the entire ship below it. And that’s how you go from Here to There in a Pirate Mothership.