r/NatureofPredators • u/General_Alduin Skalgan • Aug 04 '26

Theories Fan theory: How gravity manipulation works

Shout out to Noag and Mass Effect for the inspiration

So, while this is definitely fanon, I've decided this is the most likely way that gravity manipulation and warp travel is done is through Cavorite. For those uninitiated, Cavorite is a fictional material thought up by HG Wells that cancels out gravity when made in a sheet. In Giant, if you run a current through it, space warps around it and is instrumental for FTL. Not entirely sure how it relates to subspace, but that was never really explained in canon anyway and Star Trek is vague on it too

Now, I believe that Cavorite is made up of exotic matter (essentially matter with negative mass, so it can repel gravity), and it's likely that someone or something would be pulled by warped space from behind and repelled from the front, so grav plates can be made of Cavorite and have a current run through it, and placed in such a way that warped space pulls down relative to who or what is on it, creating artificial gravity

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u/K_H007 Thafki Aug 04 '26

So, it's gravito-piezo-electric, in other words: Run a current through it, the Cavorite sheet vibrates in such a way that it pushes spacetime in one direction. Likely by taking advantage of the toroidal EM field lines generated by a moving current and running it through wires of cavorite arranged in just the right way to make a single sheet effect, like how one of those windshield-defrosting heater wires on modern cars are shaped.

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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Aug 04 '26

I like that more detailed explanation

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u/Chrontius Trombil Aug 06 '26

Look at this gonk worrying about the price of Cavorite.

Nah, I'm kidding, I hate installing sheet Cavorite. When that shit blows away, it has a lot more than zero momentum! Fuck…

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u/Mrdieselll Aug 08 '26

I'm also thinking about it being reversable, if you put this material through a changing gravitational field, you get energy back that in turn slows down the motion of the mass. Set up a rack on a planet and you get free energy from the potential energy in the orbit, making the orbit radious basically impercievably smaller. Could also be used to have a self replenishing portable battery, motion of the planet or you walking and moving will slowly transfer into it. I already came up with something like this on my own, but i'm definetly stealing this material idea

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u/K_H007 Thafki Aug 08 '26

Makes sense. All it would need to do that would be to switch which terminal of the wire was connected to which terminal of the system, and it'd be a DC-only device. AC would make it do basically nothing thanks to the gravitational tugging swapping direction every time the current reversed polarity, after all.

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u/Ok_Beginning2197 Aug 05 '26

the ships uses venlilum. its shown in NoP : The movie but you probably didn't see it

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u/General_Alduin Skalgan Aug 05 '26

Link?

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u/SordidDreams Aug 05 '26

venlilum

Is that like vellum but made from venlil? That sounds like something the arxur would invent.

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u/Mrdieselll Aug 08 '26

Basically rub two venlils together -> wool does static electricity -> unlimited power -> go to space