Re: Honor Harrington Question?

> As we are discussing Honor Harrington I have a question I need
answering
> for my HH FT conversion.....
> 
> The ships have a gravity impellor wedge - is the wedge widest at the
bow or
> stern of the ship. I had thought it was widest at the stern but I have
found
> a passage that sort of contradicts that assumption, something about it
being
> shallower at the stern - so which is it?

Not quite; from what I've decerned from the reading, all of the ships
are 
DOUBLE spindles......

			---
		  ------   ------
 stern	----------		 ----------
	----------		 ----------  bow
		  ------   ------
			---

pretty lousy drawing, but I think you get the picture.	Anyway, the
ships 
have two impeller wedges, one pointing forward, the other backward.  I
guess 
they operate on the push-me, pull-you method.	Anyway, the open end on
the 
bow is larger for some reason; my opinion is that in order to "move" a
ship, 
you squeeze the front or back wedge closer to a point.	the smaller the
wedge 
tip, the more accel you get, but opposite of what you'd think.	(ie
pinch the 
back wedge real tight, and you go forward, not backward....)

Jeff Shoffner