It had been a few days since my apprentices initial failure, the nurous prototypes that were sitting around all in various states of disarray were a testant to how much progress she had made.
Before all of the models that Rhea had made all failed, none of them were even improving. They were all just different variations but now, whatever idea that she had ca up with when I had pressured her was truly growing.
Each and every failure that had been made on the previous prototypes was addressed and fixed and if they weren't she would try any solution that ca to mind. It was different compared to when my apprentice had just been throwing random ideas and hoping one would stick.
Now she was making educated guesses, and with each failure, with each success, more data was gathered which allowed even more accurate guesses to be made.
Looking down at the failures it seed that she was on the verge of success, there was only one more problem that I could identify until it would start to work properly, the materials.
All this ti Rhea was using subpar materials and fixing the mistakes that had co from the design. But now that it had been fixed all that was left was to switch the materials for sothing more durable.
Though even that was a problem, the materials had to be light as the thrust generated by this, when extrapolated to full size, would need to be as light as possible otherwise it would be going even slower than the initial estimate.
"guh…"
A slight groan broke from my thoughts as Rhea, sleeping, turned over on the mattress, the blanket falling off of her.
I walked over to her and picked up the blankets tucking her in. Though when I had tucked Rhea in I was not expecting her to imdiately bunch the blankets and grab them like so hug pillow.
A small smirk played on my lips as I took a photo of Rhea doing that, I would have put a sticker on her but I did not want to wake her.
After I was done with that I exited the room where Rhea was sleeping and went to my own experint room.
I thought back to earlier when I was running experints to find out if it was even possible, to even know if it was possible I had to co up with a solution that would use the idea and even then I would have to experint with that idea.
What I had co up with is that using electricity I would charge a material with an opposite charge which would then be powerful enough to repel an ion. (AN: an ion is an atom with a charge) That ion would then be accelerated with more charges that would then ultimately propel it out of the back.
How much thrust that would give was still unknown but the amount was most likely so tiny that it might do nothing. However with how small this would have to be I could densely back billions, even trillions into one engine allowing a truly ludicrous amount of thrust.
Say that a hundred of them could lift a pound then a billion of them could lift 10 million pounds or over 5000 tons.
With how light I wanted the ship to weigh in the end that would allow us to accelerate to ludicrous amounts of speed.
Though that was assuming a lot, it was still up in the air if it would even work let alone lift that much.
Though to even start innovating this I had started to research how to use charge to accelerate sothing through a tube. That was a lot more challenging than I would have thought.
To even begin with doing that I had had to go to the matter generator and create the anti-matter reactor, which had taken almost half of the day to build. I had to go off of blueprints that I had only seen once and morized.
Even though the blueprint was in my mind it still was a challenge to build, the inherent principles of how it converted energy were understandable and easily built but the actual core, the part that generated energy, that was a challenge.
Multiple tis I had part of my skin flayed as the anti-matter that had not been contained well got out and touched . Luckily there was not much of it otherwise I would have been damaged more.
Eventually I was able to build it but that had already taken up so much ti. The next thing that I had to do was create the tube that I was going to be testing. I didn't know if I wanted sothing that had high, neutral, or low conductivity, so instead of choosing one I made three tubes each with a material that I would place in one of the categories.
With those done I needed sothing that could create a strong negative and positive charge. Those were easy being done within monts.
With all of the components being built I brought them to the room that I was going to experint in.
Assembling them together, the basic idea was that the one with the opposite charge would sit at the end of the tube, where I wanted the projectile to shoot out of and the one with the sa charge would be placed around the whole tube so that it is both attracted and repelled to the end of the tube.
At just the right ti the opposite one would turn into the sa charge which would give it a final boost out of the tube.
With the prototype done I was ready to test it. Placing in a material of the right charge in the right place I started up the process.
BOOOOM
"Shit" I yelled out, the shrapnel narrowly missing as I dodged out of the way.
I went to inspect the ss and saw a giant hole in the wall.
All of my other tubes were destroyed but I would call this a success. When I had analyzed it, it had seed as if the force of the material leaving the tube was so high that it had destroyed both the tube and the surrounding ones with the shrapnel that the tube had sent after exploding.
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