Giant VTOL Boosters

These allow our whole city to hover, ascend, and descend –even when our Repulsines aren’t being fully utilized.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Components
  3. Signature
  4. Option
  5. 3D Styrofoam Model
  6. Conceptual View in an Active Giant-VTOL
  7. 2022 Update:  Scale-model in Minecraft

 

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Introduction:

V.T.O.L. stands for Vertical Take-Off and Landing.  With larger aircraft, such as cargo planes, often J.A.T.O. (Jet-Assisted Take-Off) rockets are attached to the exterior of the main body, then ignited to give the heavier aircraft the extra thrust it needs to achieve lift and flight on shorter runways.  

In the case of Inisfree, the VTOL method is vertical cylindrical prisms arranged radially within the city’s lower (subterranean) hemisphere.  Like JATO rockets, and like the rockets used to launch the primitive Outlander Space-shuttles into orbit, these Inisfreean VTOL boosters are giant, towering, turbo accelerators designed to create enough thrust to raise the entire city of Inisfree up off the ground and well beyond orbit.

These Uber VTOLs of ours are more like Repulsines than our Uber Repulsines; they were originally designed on the same principle as regular repulsines; they tap into the forces/effects of nature, not using explosions to push the craft up or help it hover.  We call them VTOLs, instead of Repulsines, to avoid confusion; they are for vertical movement assistance, not usually hovering, and certainly not other/multi-directional movement like our Uber Repulsines are.  Each of our Uber VTOLs is like a vertical stack of regular (one-ring) repulsines, resulting in an incredibly more-powerful/capable range/potential than the regular/original repulsine had.

 

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Components:

Each of our 12 giant VTOL devices/shafts has a few distinct sections;

  1. the shaft (hollow cylindrical prism) frame/skeleton/hull
  2. numerous identical stacked mile-wide/diameter one-ring repulsine-like engines
  3. a black-hole-based singularity device at/near/in the top
  4. an optical-illusion energy-based barrier/camouflage/shield at the bottom; it covers the exit/intake hole

Originally, these were just designed to be Titan-sized JATO rockets/boosters.  The amount of fuel they would have needed was impossible for us to contain in Inisfree’s remaining underground space, though, not to mention impossible to produce or find.  We decided instead to make them like a fusion of repulsine and rail-gun technology, but instead of pushing a projectile out, it pushes Inisfree/itself up.

Each of these giant VTOL devices/shafts has a wall which contains a stack of one-ring mile-wide/diameter repulsines, like a vertical array of TR-3B or TR-6 engines.  The more VTOL we want/need, the more of the one-ring devices in each stack we ‘fire up’ (turn on) or ‘spin up’ (increase the spin of, i.e. moving the fluid inside them faster).  This works in tandem with Inisfree’s giant repulsines; those repulsines provide the shielding and gravity and inertia-cancelling effects, as well as the cancelation of air-friction, plus the creation of our ‘sky-dome’ shield/forcefield, …while these giant VTOL shafts assist in stabilizing any movement of our city straight up or down (and we can use them even when our giant repulsines are completely off, if we want; Inisfree can take off even with its repulsines powered all the way down to 0%).

 

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Signature:​

Though Inisfreeans have the technology to use simpler means of transportation, such as combustion engines, they tend to use warp-drives, black-hole manipulation, and other singularities.  In the case of these city-sized VTOL boosters, the excess energy from nearby stars, such as their coronal mass ejections and larger solar flares, is harnessed and teleported into the tops of these VTOL boosters’ chambers; at the height of their cylindrical prisms, and then allowed to expand rapidly downward and outward, giving Inisfree an easy lift-off from any world.

*Typically, though, these VTOLs just bend Space vertically, climbing up or down that way, instead of the more primitive version of Space-bending (or ‘warp-drive’) technology, which creates a ‘bubble’ or ‘bend’ around a ship, stretching Space so that, when that bubble closes (or is turned off)… the ship is then at the other end of where the bend connected/started.  This results in zero rumbling; no seismic activity, which would be felt reverberating through Inisfree’s lower hemisphere, was it to lift off with the channeled energy from any nearby star.  Vertical Space-bending is always a smooth and silent process.

In short, we have a 12-VTOLs formation/system in this CSBS (City-Sized Battle-Station) design of ours, Inisfree.

 

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Option:​

In another setting/mode, any of these VTOL shafts can be used to ‘vacuum up’ terrain/land/mass below; we can use them to remove material/mass where Inisfree needs to create a bowl-shaped ‘crater’ to land.

There is another form of thrust that these giant VTOL boosters can be set to, and how it works is highly classified even with the hidden Inisfreean realm, but what it looks like can be discussed; when, in this mode, the VTOL boosters turn on, the city of Inisfree simply floats slowly up from its resting place upon the surface of whichever world it is on, and in the wake that hangs below it are what appear to be sheets of very slowly falling rain particles twinkling with sporadic flickers of starlight.  In other words, it looks like an ethereal mist of pixie dust is gracefully, casually descending down from the lowest ports of the sphere which is Inisfree, and hanging in the air as it sparkles and shimmers like those rare fireworks some might see in the Outlands during the 4th of July.  It is this final and classified form of lift-off which the Inisfreeans save for their most treasured and beloved hosts on the worlds which are civilized and free-loving.

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3D Styrofoam Model:

These images show different angles/vantages around Inisfree’s overall formation of its largest chambers/facilities.  You can see a horizontal ring near the top of its airspace, then a slightly wider ring near where its central mountain’s summit would be, followed by a wider thicker ring at its ground-level and indicating generally where its perimeter wall would be.  Below that mid-level thick ring are some diagonal cylinders representing the WarShips‘ Uber Hangars, plus vertical cylinders which represent where Inisfree’s Uber VTOLs are between those hangars.

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Conceptual View in an Active Giant-VTOL:

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2022 Update:  Scale-model in Minecraft

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