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[Varanus]

Yes yes, that nice. Oddly enough I saw someone mention this a few months ago. So your post isnt original either.

[wyodinosaur]

So what else is new? They plagiarised Neon (Cyberpunk - Night City) and the Well (Enderal - Undercity) and probably more.

[I Denizen I]

One, its impossible to imagine something out of thin air, everything, literally everything we can imagine is either inspired by something natural on the planet, or manufactured on the planet, or written about by someone else on the planet,

A quick google search says America was funding Gravity research in the 1950's including gravity propulsion.

So I am not sure why, this is a valid complaint about Starfield, when it comes to space and our current understanding of it, there are not many ways of propelling a space ship and they have all been written about, put in TV shows and Movies for a good long while now.

Hell I was using Gravity drives in Space Engineers a long time before this game came along.

I mean a better complaint would have been there is no way testing a grav drive for something as small as a space ship could have ruined the earth and wiped out most of the human race in the process.

Creating a gravity field on the moon (which already has a colossal field of its own) large enough to affect the Earth and overcome the Star's (at the centre of our solar system ) gravity field, or hell put more strain on the earth than a conjunction does (when all them massive bodies line up with each other) well now we talking neutronium levels of density, and that would have collapsed everything in a sizeable radius around it, including a significant portion of the moon itself.

Basically its a stinking pile of crap, quite literally space magic, and nothing at all near the much lauded "NASA Punk" the game was aiming for.

[eMYNOCK]

sad to disappoint you Hondo, but the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, aka Wormhole and conveniently its theoretical Idea to artificially create said Wormholes is older than what you claim it is.

and now make an educated guess what the Grav Drive is based on...

[Mooman]

Cowboy Bebop, Astral gate explosion. There is more taken from there too as the writers have indicated it as one of their 'influences'.

That is what BGS relies on, lore plagiarized from sources older than their current audience. That way it's harder from them to make the connections.

https://youtu.be/UTHAW9IXCR4?si=NPCrZNNI9lliT4k9

[Skumboni]

So, what? Show us something that was not influenced by anything else if you want to make a point.

[Vaporwave Spirit]

Guys dont feed this troll. Hes grasping at straws in a desperate attempt to get more people to hate starfield. Dont even give him your clown awards.

[Sistermatic™]

Broaden your horizons lad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

[Octavus]

Haha.. it's funny. I'm pretty sure the name grav drive or warp drive is used in dozens if not hundres of written sci-fi stories. The first sci-fi about space travel is apparently from the 2nd century about a greek ship ending up on the moon.

[Neo]

Most science fiction borrows ideas and styles from each other. Warp drive, grav drive, no one really cares.

The critics are just nit picking at this point.

[kdodds]

This is just more parroted chatter. Gravity Drives are a staple in most SciFi IPs simply because they're also part of theoretical physics. Almost every possible IP I can think of has some form of gravity driven drive. They may not always be called "gravity drives". Sometimes they're warp drives, or mass relays, or wormhole drives, or hyperspace drives. In other words, it's a ubiquitous commonality across SciFi the same way gas and electric cars are ubiquitous forms of travel in most contemporary settings. It's how we accept FTL travel can be achieved thanks to Einstein and Rosen.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by kdodds:

This is just more parroted chatter. Gravity Drives are a staple in most SciFi IPs simply because they're also part of theoretical physics. Almost every possible IP I can think of has some form of gravity driven drive. They may not always be called "gravity drives". Sometimes they're warp drives, or mass relays, or wormhole drives, or hyperspace drives. In other words, it's a ubiquitous commonality across SciFi the same way gas and electric cars are ubiquitous forms of travel in most contemporary settings. It's how we accept FTL travel can be achieved thanks to Einstein and Rosen.

Alcubierre, don't forget Alcubierre...

[kdodds]

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

Originally posted by kdodds:

This is just more parroted chatter. Gravity Drives are a staple in most SciFi IPs simply because they're also part of theoretical physics. Almost every possible IP I can think of has some form of gravity driven drive. They may not always be called "gravity drives". Sometimes they're warp drives, or mass relays, or wormhole drives, or hyperspace drives. In other words, it's a ubiquitous commonality across SciFi the same way gas and electric cars are ubiquitous forms of travel in most contemporary settings. It's how we accept FTL travel can be achieved thanks to Einstein and Rosen.

Alcubierre, don't forget Alcubierre...

Yeah, a form of "warp drive".

[majority of voters]

• Hyperdrive - Star Wars.
• Jump Drive - The Expanse.
• FTL Drive - A generic term meaning "Faster Than Light" drive.
• Slipstream Drive - Andromeda.
• Star Drive - Used in some space operas.
• Alcubierre Drive - A theoretical term based on real-world physics.
• Subspace Drive - Star Trek.
• Void Drive - Featured somewhere in a sci-fi setting, forget where.
• Quantum Drive - The Orville.
• Space Fold Drive - Macross/Robotech.
• Dimensional Drive - Self-explanatory.
• Transwarp Drive - Star Trek.
• Heisenberg Drive - Used in hard sci-fi and Quantum mechanics.
• Wormhole Drive
• Ionic Drive
• Infinite Improbability Drive - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
• Epstein Drive - The Expanse.
• Spore Drive - Star Trek: Discovery.
• Impulse Drive - Sometimes people confuse it with FTL.
• Phase Drive.
• Singularity Drive.
• Lightfold Drive.

Edit: Forgot Gravitic (Grav) Drive - Warhammer 40,000 Universe.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by majority of voters:

• Hyperdrive - Star Wars.
• Jump Drive - The Expanse.
• FTL Drive - A generic term meaning "Faster Than Light" drive.
• Slipstream Drive - Andromeda.
• Star Drive - Used in some space operas.
• Alcubierre Drive - A theoretical term based on real-world physics.
• Subspace Drive - Star Trek.
• Void Drive - Featured somewhere in a sci-fi setting, forget where.
• Quantum Drive - The Orville.
• Space Fold Drive - Macross/Robotech.
• Dimensional Drive - Self-explanatory.
• Transwarp Drive - Star Trek.
• Heisenberg Drive - Used in hard sci-fi and Quantum mechanics.
• Wormhole Drive
• Ionic Drive
• Infinite Improbability Drive - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
• Epstein Drive - The Expanse.
• Spore Drive - Star Trek: Discovery.
• Impulse Drive - Sometimes people confuse it with FTL.
• Phase Drive.
• Singularity Drive.
• Lightfold Drive.

Edit: Forgot Gravitic (Grav) Drive - Warhammer 40,000 Universe.

Frame Shift Drive - Elite

and all of them are either based on wormholes, dimensional shift or any other kind of theoretical space time manipulation.

i don't envy OP... harvest what you sow etc...