Space Engineers: Gravity Boosting Gate.

The PCU obliterator (it takes about 300k+)
If you want to build this thing in survival, I wish you luck. It's better to have this thing as a server-owned thing for players to use on a regular basis to yeet themselves from earthlike to moon or something like that...
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Yes thanks I know about the bloom. I enabled it for a video.

[@thelolrus7491]

Very cool concept but I wish you would have shown some actual applications of the gate, or at least a better test run than you running into the first wall.

[@untodesu]

I will, the thing is that the gate needs to be finished first because one shown in the video is like the first somewhat complete design iteration

[@thelolrus7491]

@@untodesu looks awesome! Cant wait to see future iterations

[@Stoney3K]

I half expected him to get yeeted into the wall and splashed like a bug. Instead: *CLUNK* Oh, ouch.

[@A.Person.Who.Exists]

Imagine a script that links two of these together so they always point toward eachother. One gate would launch the ship and the other one would catch and decellerate it.

[@untodesu]

That would work but considering _the distance_, anything can occur so it's a good way to just half your fuel usage: you accelerate by it but you brake yourself

[@kylehibshman6619]

We need a ship demo for this! Cool build! Looks cool. Does cool thing.

[@untodesu]

I will post a video with yeeting things using it

[@RC-Sev]

There's something undeniably awesome about supermassive stations in space engineers. I never get tired of it lol

[@shahbazfawbush]

Needs a speed mod to get past 110 m/s. Look forward to next video!

[@Artmoby]

I think this is the best thing for a "transport company" In a Space Engineer RP server. Love this build.

[@joshdoz9234]

Arguably the closest we will get to a Mass Relay.....

[@voodoovince8001]

Now make this station mobile and you got yourself a dreadnought capable of boosting fighters, turret missiles or random scrap at a target or an orbital bombarder to pound ground bases into scrap and keep rover bases on their toes.

[@untodesu]

That could work, I guess... but the gate is enormous already so I's use it as a booster for cargo ships so they only decelerate on their own

[@noahbluecoat]

One thing that reminds of this. This thing is like the Jedi's hyper drives but its the giga version of it.

[@untodesu]

Yeah, but this one is static, so ships move through

[@chasemaracle6224]

I actually used a similar and more compact design that is used in conjunction a no cap speed mod to fire a shell that can either be a sabot shell that goes through 10-15 heavy blocks or a HEAT shell that goes through about two or three heavy blocks and then detonated two large warheads. They use space balls to create artifical mass allowing the shells to accelerate much faster and have a better impact.

[@untodesu]

Well that thing is designed to yeet ships and not shells

[@kinngrimm]

NASA wants to speak to you for the job of a project manager to build an interplanetary super highway.

[@neves5083]

Now with a not safe ship :D

[@indy1139]

Ive always wanted to make something like this, and also have another gate with grav gens in the opposite direction to rapidly slow the ship down when you reach your destination

[@untodesu]

This would require pinpoint accuracy, so the best way is to use it for the ship to accelerate but brake by itself, practically halfing the fuel usage

[@DragonGold121.]

You should probably make the safe area have a green line and the danger zone have a red line

[@untodesu]

I can but there's a line already

[@crashoverride8450]

Cool design. But we need MOOOOORE!!!

[@untodesu]

Thanks, I guess :) Well, if Keen ever going to port SE to Linux (which now should be generally possible), I am in with all my hands!

[@S-G-zm3uu]

alright now attatch a smaller version to a space station for use as an orbital bombardment weapon

[@untodesu]

That is a good concept

[@Zorro9129]

Epic, and I like the detail! Has it been finished yet?

[@untodesu]

It's now in kind of a state of limbo: it's pretty much done but the workshop page really lacks some screenshots... I haven't really worked on it since April of 2021... Anyways here's the link steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2468977322

[@Zorro9129]

@@untodesu Thanks!

[@emersonalencarjunior8291]

Kudos for this gravity gate project concept! But please, post us a test with a medium-sized ship (civilian or not) with the speed mod! It is practically begging for it. (no inertial dampeners for increased awesomeness). And please make another one, headed to the planet below, as a massive-debris-hurler-weapon kind of orbital base, too!

[@untodesu]

as soon as SE works decently with proton, I'll make a video

[@ukaszanioowski9722]

in theory, could this be used to launch max mass space balls surrounded in like 3 layers of heavy armor to penetrate through ships?

[@Naofumi-Iwatani]

Possibly? But then it'd have to be able to rotate to face its target.

[@timothygooding9544]

please say you are using a speed mod with this, only getting up to 100m/s would be really anticlimactic for something able to launch ships with 450G artificial masses If anything it would be really cool for infrastructure like this to replace jump drives

[@untodesu]

I of course was designing it to be used with a speed unlocking mod Also I agree, gravity boosting has much more potential than jump drives as it is kind of realistic (if we ever build something that can yeet things into space, the only fuel we use would be spent on deceleration)

[@Stoney3K]

With a speed mod I was thinking more along the lines of Freelancer-style trade lanes. Have a string of these gates all pointing towards each other so ships can enter the lane and travel through it, with the last ring in the lane doing the decelerating.

[@teddycush55]

Can I see this making things go fast,?

[@untodesu]

Whenever I get my grabby little hands on running Windows again, I suppose

[@teddycush55]

@@untodesu Thankyou very much friend

[@PattPlays]

But the game has a speed cap right

[@untodesu]

Well yes but with some mods it can be virtually disabled

[@PattPlays]

@@untodesu ye I've heard abt that