We need a GERN thread

[Sumpter250]

What do you think they make those engines out of in the first place?

The main drive engines, roll, pitch, and yaw engines, are basically cylinders of expended uranium. What makes them unique is that they have been "drawn", somewhat like a wire, through an event horizon, to produce very precise molecular alignment. These "mass cylinders" are controlled by a generated field which causes the mass's sub atomic structure to "think" it is moving at "a speed", along the cylindrical axis. To achieve exponential light speeds, a similar field generator produces the same effect in the hull structure, and the crew. The only energy required is for the "communication" of that "thought" to the engines, and the rest of the mass. Once at the desired vector, it all continues until acted upon by an outside force. --Simply put, Inertial drive.
The small size of the load is the result of GERN Flux being 3% more resistant to inertial vectoring. ( within its container, the GERN Flux does get 3% more " agitated " )

Really, do you honestly think intergalactic travel is possible, by "squirting something out the back end of a vessel" ?? !!!

Power:
Beneath the after dish communication antenna mount, is a large spherical chamber which makes up the Focused Translocator Reactor, a "matter-matter annihilation", as opposed to "matter-antimatter", energy source, using two focused, translocators ( "transporters" ) to cause two equal masses to exist in the same space at the same time. It's been irreverently called "The Big Bang Ball ", by some with a less than fully developed imagination. There's currently, ongoing research, to see if an alloy can be made with GERN Flux, to make the energy conversion refractory lining of the sphere 3% more efficient.