Generation ships and protective fields.

   Generation ships and protective fields. 

The journey to Alpha Centauri requires enormous resources. Even if we want to use primitive technologies. That journey requires a complete change in our culture. If we want to make that journey, we must remember that we will never see those people again. The Crysalis is one of the first imaginations or workshops that shows what that system can look like. Another version can be the WARP, which requires technology that doesn’t even exist. So, those journeys to other stars are not a reality, at least in short periods. Periods in those projects are about 100-500 years. The purpose of those workshops and imaginative projects is also to give innovations and ideas on how to protect large flying structures against swarms of small projectiles. 

And one of the things that can get advances is the airships. Or blimps. That can have military and civil roles. In some models, the blip can raise the aircraft. Up from the ground. And then transport them out of the city area. And there those blimps can launch those aircraft. That is one version of the system that can give a solution for air noise. The unmanned airship can also carry drones to the operational area. When a high-flying airship patrols above the sea, it can drop drones to search and attack targets. The problem is that airships can offer a good target to air defense. But ion systems and protective fields can raise their survivability. But there is more. About that thing later in this text.  

The generation ship to the Proxima Centauri system would be the project that changes the entire human culture. The generationship will be the most enormous system that has ever been created. That kind of system has a large mass. The mass of that kind of artificial world causes the craft to have its own gravity field regardless of whether it rotates around its axle or not. That gravity field is much weaker than Earth's, but it's strong enough. It starts to pull asteroids to that spaceship. And especially in interstellar space, that gravity field has a stronger effect than in our solar system. There are no other mass centers, and that craft can pull lots of asteroids to it. The big asteroid can be destroyed by using laser cannons. But small asteroids will damage the spacecraft's shell. 

There is a possibility that the craft has water or ice armour that is easier to repair than metals. But the problem is that the next time those crafts can get water is in the Proxima Centauri system. And that requires a planet with water or some other ice-like substance. Like hydrocarbons. But there are no known planets between our solar system and Alpha Centauri. And there is no chance to trust luck. There is a small chance that a spacecraft meets a water asteroid during its journey.  But would you send thousands of people on that journey and trust luck? The system can build up water in fuel cells. But the craft must not lose any oxygen. 

The craft also requires a magnetic field that pushes ions away from around it. That magnetic field can trap ion whirls around it. The ion whirl can also destroy the smallest asteroids. The power field, or protective field, is the thing that can solve many problems. That thing can deny the impacts of physical ammunition. Those fields can destroy physical particles before they impact the craft. 

One of the answers to those problems is the active protective field. Those protective fields can destroy or burn incoming small asteroids into ash. And vaporize their structure. Some of the solutions that can help spacecraft survive the extremely long journey are the ion fields that rotate around the craft. That means the craft will spray an ion cloud around it. And then that ion cloud will start to rotate around the craft. Those ions smash asteroids into pieces. Another version could be the skyrmion group. That will spin around the craft. Those high-energy skyrmions can break the asteroids into pieces. 

The active protective field can also protect atmospheric satellites and other targets. Like cities against drone swarms. 

The active protection field can also be a good tool. To protect things. like atmospheric satellites and all high-altitude platforms. The high-flying airship can hover above the battlefield. But the problem is. With its survivability. There is a possibility of putting automatic machine guns or some other types of kinetic systems into those airships. And when the system detects incoming missiles. That defense system can shoot that missile. 

The active protection field is a tool. That can make drone defense more effective. Than it is now. The atmospheric version can have two stages. The system can involve the particle cloud that the microwave puts into a very high temperature. Or the EM weapon can heat the missile shell. Then the system injects ultra-cold particles into the missile’s trajectory. And that breaks the shell. Another version is to use a laser that heats the targeted missiles. And then ultra-cold ions. will shoot against them. 

In the atmosphere, the system can use gas whirls or skyrmions that protect the craft's body. The laser weapons. And other kinds of things can bring fully automated airships, or atmospheric satellites, also over the battlefield. Those systems can hover above the operational areas and follow the operation. The problem has always been that without effective defense, those slow systems are good targets for air defense. The skyrmion field can be the answer to the problem. The high-energy ring lightning could destroy incoming ammunition. 

The whirls and microwave systems can also protect entire cities. The microwave system is a good tool for destroying large drone swarms. The system must use so much energy that it breaks those drones’ structures and burns their computers. The acoustic protective field can be in the locked pressure waves. The acoustic field forms when the system sends acoustic pressure signals around it. Then the outside system, which can be the drone swarm, can send counter noise. The idea is that the system forms a soliton wall around the object. Then the electromagnetic system sends radiation to that acoustic dome. That can turn it very hot. This can destroy incoming ammunition and drones. 

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