What colour is the wedge?

• are very bright sources in gravitic sensors (which propagate FTL);
• cannot be seen through from the outside;
• their distortion can be compensated by the ship inside;
• Ghost Rider RDs are pretty stealthy

cthia wrote:Remember, wedges are as hard to miss as a spot light in a dark room. They have to be easily seen. I've always envisioned a bright neon red, or a brilliant white of almost pure light. White hot. Or red hot.

ThinksMarkedly wrote:

cthia wrote:Remember, wedges are as hard to miss as a spot light in a dark room. They have to be easily seen. I've always envisioned a bright neon red, or a brilliant white of almost pure light. White hot. Or red hot.

Gravitically they are a very bright source. We know that they can be detected from light-minutes away by even poor planets, like the Verge or how the Star Kingdom was in Travis' time.

But do we know that they emit in the EM spectrum? More importantly, in the visible light one?

ThinksMarkedly wrote:

cthia wrote:Remember, wedges are as hard to miss as a spot light in a dark room. They have to be easily seen. I've always envisioned a bright neon red, or a brilliant white of almost pure light. White hot. Or red hot.

Gravitically they are a very bright source. We know that they can be detected from light-minutes away by even poor planets, like the Verge or how the Star Kingdom was in Travis' time.

But do we know that they emit in the EM spectrum? More importantly, in the visible light one?

Somtaaw wrote:Warships due to the dual-layered wedges always remain huge sheets that block all light. So even a 0° deflection completely bow on approach, you'd see the narrowing aspects of the wedge blocking/absorbing all nearby light and the ship itself riding between them.

Daryl wrote:Never thought seriously about it, but assumed it would be a shimmering mother of pearl becauseof the light distortion.

ThinksMarkedly wrote:

cthia wrote:Remember, wedges are as hard to miss as a spot light in a dark room. They have to be easily seen. I've always envisioned a bright neon red, or a brilliant white of almost pure light. White hot. Or red hot.

Gravitically they are a very bright source. We know that they can be detected from light-minutes away by even poor planets, like the Verge or how the Star Kingdom was in Travis' time.

But do we know that they emit in the EM spectrum? More importantly, in the visible light one?

The hyper translation had been all Citizen Commodore Yang had promised. He'd never imagined anything like it, and he knew he'd stood there, gawking through the observation blister's magnifying grav lens, as ship after ship followed Farnese across the hyper-space wall into the Cerberus System. The sleek battlecruisers had been magnificent enough, with the two hundred and fifty-kilometer disks of their Warshawski sails bleeding blue lightning, but the transports had been even more awesome. They outmassed the battlecruisers by over five-to-one, and despite their weaker drives, the actual area of their sails was much greater. They had flashed into existence like huge, azure soap bubbles, blazing against the blackness like brief-lived blue suns, and the sight had driven home the reality of their sheer size. There were many larger ships in space, yet for the first time in his memory, Thornegrave had been pushed into standing back and appreciating the sheer scale of the human race's dreams. By many standards, the Longstops were little more than moderately oversized cargo barges, and he knew it, but they didn't feel that way as they glowed and flashed in the long night.

But King Roger raced along between the inclined "roof" and "floor" of her impeller wedge, and the effect of a meter-deep band in which local gravity went from zero to over ninety-seven thousand MPS2 grabbed photons like a lake of glue and bent the strongest energy weapon like flimsy wire. Stars seen through a stress band like that red-shifted radically and displaced their images by a considerable margin in direct vision displays, though knowing exactly how powerful the gravity field was made it fairly simple for the computers to compensate and put them back where they belonged.