What is "compensators"

Usage examples of "compensators".

Yet even in a worst-case scenario, with the most modern compensators the Peeps had, there was no longer any way both bogeys could avoid action, given their overtake velocity and the current range.

But they'd made enormous progress in closing the gap in just the nine and a half years since joining the Alliance, and "crude" didn't necessarily mean the same thing as "unsophisticated," as the new generation of inertial compensators amply demonstrated.

We've been refitting the new systems and weapons and compensators on an ad hoc basis since the war started, but over half our wall of battle units are at least two years behind the technology curve.

That's seriously hurting our ability to make full use of the new hardware, especially the compensators, since our squadrons are no longer homogenous.

We on the other hand, have a lot more tractor capability than they do, and the new Mars-class heavy cruisers have more brute impeller strength than their compensators can handle anyway.

The dreadnoughts had all received new compensators, but they were only second-generation upgrades with no more than a six percent efficiency boost over the old style.

Warships had much more powerful internal grav plates than shuttles or other small craft, but without the sump of a grav wave for their compensators to work with, the best they could do was reduce the apparent force of a hundred and fifty gravities by a factor of about thirty.

Even though the gravitational compensators battled to hang on to each living body on the bridge, Chan was ninety pounds after a big meal.

In mere seconds, the compensators would lose their fight and all of them would be sucked out.

The gravity compensators gasped with relief, and turned loose of those who were left alive.

Even with the newest generation of Havenite inertial compensators, that meant she was pulling over ninety percent of theoretical max.

Maximum theoretical acceleration for the class was two hundred and ten gravities, but that was with a zero safety margin on their compensators, and no sane merchant skipper was going to operate his ship at those levels.

Bogey Two, assuming equal generations of compensators, would have a slight acceleration advantage over Hexapuma, but not much of one.

Even assuming post-cease-fire compensators, Bogey One would require an hour and forty minutes and be less than nine and a half light-minutes from the primary before she came to rest relative to it.

Even assuming they did have the later compensators and went to maximum military power with a zero safety margin, if Hexapuma turned on them this instant and went to her own max deceleration, they would meet in seventy-one minutes.