Warp drive

[TheConstable6]

Quick clarification needed:

Do warp drives actually move the vessel forward while they are incased in a warp bubble or does it just form/open the bubble?

[Darkthunder]

More likely the former, as you need a stable "Warp Field" to initiate and maintain Warp Speed.

[ACES_HIGH]

that's kinda complicated, yes they create the warp field, but do they move the vessel? yes and no.  The warp field submerges the ship in subspace and warps the space time around the ship.  Essentially the ship is standing still the entire time, and the space time is moving around it, allowing it to move faster than light despite the Theory of Relativity.

[Psyco Diver]

I thought a warp field collapses space in fronr of the ship and expands space behind it essecially making a wave in which a ship inside a warp field rides?

[ACES_HIGH]

that's more or less right, the space-time warping around the ship does that, which allows the ship to move without moving relativistically.

[TheConstable6]

Thanks, guys.