Lighthuggers were spacecraft that traveled at just below the speed of light, taking months or years to accelerate to their cruising speed.

May 3, 2018 · It can accelerate at seven or eight gees continuously forever with brief minute-long bursts of 50 or more using its inertia-controlled conjoiner drive. It's also armoured with a few hundred …

Subcategory for articles on lighthuggers, the fastest and most advanced human starships in the Revelation Space universe. Originally developed by Conjoiners, lighthuggers can reach speeds …

The details of the vehicle aren't discussed in detail, but it is capable of atmospheric, surface-to-orbit, orbit-to-surface flight, in addition to spaceflight, and has a carrying capacity of 500 people.

The lighthugger in-system craft was a larger type of vacuum-only auxilliary ship, carried aboard certain lighthugger starships, such as the Nostalgia for Infinity.

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Feb 4, 2017 · This is a Lighthugger, the main ships in the Revelation Space book series by Alastair Reynolds. These babies are 2 to 4 kilometers long and conical, with two quantum-mechanics …

Jul 5, 2018 · The lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity accelerating to 99% of the speed of light in Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. Admittedly, I haven't branched very far into hard scifi yet.

As readers of the RS books and stories will know, the main mode of transport for getting between solar systems is via lighthugger – vast, kilometers-long spacecraft which can get very close to the speed of …

Jan 28, 2025 · A Belle Epoque era lighthugger, Phantasm of Transcendence, cruising just under the speed of light, soon to flip for deceleration. A Revelation Space series fan-spaceship.