A Taste Of Despair (The Humal Sequence) - Plot & Excerpts
Their single man crews had just enough time to react and thrust their vessels clear of the customs vessels path. There was no time for any thought of firing on the ship. Getting out of its way was the only concern. The Ulysses was not a big vessel, but it was big in comparison to the tiny PDC’s. An impact with the customs vessel would certainly be fatal for any of the little craft. Having scattered the tiny craft, the Ulysses then plunged back down towards the station’s hull and sped off along it, just meters from the surface. It was a maneuver that would have been impossible in a ship equipped with a normal reaction-mass drive. The Gravity Drive, by contrast, allowed a vessel to push and pull against any gravity source nearby. The more sources of gravity there were, such as a planetary system, the more vectors that were available to the ship to use for movement. Add in a limited ability to ‘sail’ at an angle to gravitational forces, and the ship became almost as maneuverable as if it was an atmospheric craft.
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