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Pressors

From Sojourner Saga
Typical pressorcraft used on planetary surfaces.

Pressors are a broad category of field technology that presses directly on physical matter from hyperspace, enabling uniform and perfectly efficient elastic transmission of momentum. Pressors have been used for a wide variety of purposes through history, starting from their inception during the Third Exodus. Pressorcraft are vehicles capable of propelling themselves through planetary atmospheres and oceans efficiently, as well as vacuum over the surfaces of airless worlds. There are almost innumerable forms of pressorcraft, ranging from unimobiles for individual transportation to enormous skyliners capable of transporting tens of thousands of people at a time across a planetary surface or through an aerie. Pressortools are any variety of implement that utilizing this effect to transmit force to manipulate mechanic systems. Typical pressortools include grips, cutters, and joiners.

Pressor deck hallway on a megahabitation, with orthogonally oriented pseudo-gravity pressorfields.

Pressorfields and pressor decks are environmental systems that maintain specified levels of simulated gravity for humans and other inhabitants of space structures. Aeries often maintain pressorfield environments as a way of enabling inhabitants to naturally maintain muscle tone. Pressorfields are also standard emergency equipment on spacecraft to counteract abrupt changes in momentum that would otherwise injure passengers.