- "He swears the Betan embassy there is demonstrating an artificial gravity device."
"What! How—?"
"Piping it in from wormhole space for all I know. You bet Beta Colony is sitting on the math of it, till they make their initial killing in the marketplace and recoup their R&D costs." - ―Leo Graf and another engineer discuss the new invention.[src]
Gravitics was the name used in the Vorkosigan Saga for any kind of technology that uses anti-gravity. No detailed explanation exists in the series for how this worked, but it was invented about two hundred years before Miles Vorkosigan[1], and it was "a five-space/three-space interface phenomenon."[2]
Many technologies used gravitics:
- Float vehicles – a general term for vehicles that used gravitics (ubiquitous)
- gravitic imploder lance – was a type of weapon[8][2][9]
- gravitic grenades – were a type of weapon[10]
- gravitic grappler – useful with rappelling equipment[11]
- artificial gravity – a technology that transformed space flight[1]
- grav-crutches – Miles Vorkosigan used these when he broke both his legs[12]
- tractor tow, tractor beam, hand-tractor – for moving things from a distance (ubiquitous)
- grav-bed – a particularly luxurious way to sleep[13]
- lift tube – a particularly modern version of an elevator (ubiquitous)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Falling Free chapter 7
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Komarr chapter 18
- ↑ Captain Vorpatril's Alliance chapter 2
- ↑ Captain Vorpatril's Alliance chapter 12
- ↑ The Vor Game chapters 2-5
- ↑ Brothers in Arms chapter 3
- ↑ Mirror Dance chapters 5,6
- ↑ The Vor Game chapter 15
- ↑ Cetaganda chapter 3
- ↑ Brothers in Arms chapter 13
- ↑ Brothers in Arms chapters 14,15
- ↑ The Warrior's Apprentice chapter 3
- ↑ Komarr chapters 1,2,4,9,14