VESICA
IGE chief engineer
KV+Y 1/386+1/137
Call a factor. Guard keeps the hatch, cores, and loop in the window and restarts after a dump. Tweaks are yours; crashes are not. Fission only — no fusion magnets against the vesica. Not v > c.
Warp 1 · 3% fold · 0.32 g · 1 site · skip 5.8% if hatch holds ·not v > c. Isolated Li-7 pocket. One site. 3% fold, ~6% skip.
Warp 1
Li-7
1 site · merge 0.00
standby · 6 K
loop 220 K
ready 82% · used 18%
Warp here is a load telegraph: fold absorption and burn g, one site per recipe. Crew never above 1 g. Earth clocks floor at Warp 7. Warp 9 is the D floor. Nothing on this scale is faster than light.
- Warp
- Warp 1
- Crew a
- 0.32 g
- Plate
- 1.2 g
- Peak v
- 0.814 c
- γ
- 1.72
- Earth
- 8.49 yr
- Crew
- 6.90 yr
- Crew + hatch
- hatch off
- Skip
- —
~10⁵ t · pulse ~1 Mt · hatch off: plate g would reach the crew
| Star | ly | Light | Earth | Crew | Hatch crew | Skip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proxima Centauri | 4.25 | 4.25 yr | 8.34 yr | 6.81 yr | — | — |
| Alpha Centauri AB | 4.37 | 4.37 yr | 8.49 yr | 6.90 yr | — | — |
| Barnard's Star | 5.96 | 5.96 yr | 10.4 yr | 7.92 yr | — | — |
| Wolf 359 | 7.86 | 7.86 yr | 12.5 yr | 8.93 yr | — | — |
| Lalande 21185 | 8.30 | 8.30 yr | 13.0 yr | 9.14 yr | — | — |
| Sirius A | 8.60 | 8.60 yr | 13.3 yr | 9.28 yr | — | — |
| Epsilon Eridani | 10.5 | 10.5 yr | 15.4 yr | 10.1 yr | — | — |
| 61 Cygni | 11.4 | 11.4 yr | 16.4 yr | 10.4 yr | — | — |
| Procyon | 11.5 | 11.5 yr | 16.4 yr | 10.4 yr | — | — |
| Tau Ceti | 11.9 | 11.9 yr | 16.9 yr | 10.6 yr | — | — |
| Kapteyn's Star | 12.8 | 12.8 yr | 17.9 yr | 10.9 yr | — | — |
| 40 Eridani A | 16.3 | 16.3 yr | 21.5 yr | 12.0 yr | — | — |
| Vega | 25.0 | 25.0 yr | 30.5 yr | 14.1 yr | — | — |
| TRAPPIST-1 | 40.5 | 40.5 yr | 46.2 yr | 16.5 yr | — | — |
| Galactic center | 26.7 k | 26.7 kyr | 26.7 kyr | 55.1 yr | — | — |
| Andromeda (M31) | 2.54 M | 2.54 Myr | 2.54 Myr | 82.7 yr | — | — |
Each factor snaps burn g and the rod together. Earth / Crew are that burn with the hatch off. Hatch crew lights when the field holds. Warp 7–9 share the 1 g Earth floor; only the skip keeps growing, and the D floor is Warp 9, not Warp 4. Each recipe uses one site. Extra nucleations dump heat into the loop. Dump the coolant or quench and wait on the radiators. D cannot go below 0 — that is the thin-shell floor.