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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A Mass Driver is a starship configuration which centers around a main engine, for acceleration, and detachable modules. Use of mass drivers was seen as far back as the [[Mage Wars]] and was a common stepping stone for developing cultures on the road to space travel.<br />
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Mass drivers had one primary advantage over conventional integrated starship designs: that the drive section could be detached and returned to the point of origin, while the rest could remain at its destination.<br />
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The key characteristic of a mass driver is a large engine module that pushes or "drives" the main ship module, which would be otherwise ballistic without the engine. The advent of modern FTL systems and the [[Ion vacuum drive]] effectively doomed the mass driver concept, and betweem the mid [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]] and late [[Ages#The Third Age|Third Age]] mass drivers were virtually non-existant.<br />
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Late in the [[Ages#The Third Age|Third Age]], [[Advanced Dynamics]], a colonization initiative, turned to a re-imagined form of the initial concept, called the ADMD ([[Advanced Dynamics Mass Driver]]), which used modern hardware to produce one of the most successful mass space transportation systems ever devised.<br />
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