Subspace shock wave
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- Side effect of a sudden severe change in the gravimetric field (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; TNG: "11001001"; DS9: "Sons of Mogh"; "VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- Most often caused by the sudden destruction of either an extremely massive body or a vessel generating a warp field (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; TNG: "11001001"; DS9: "Sons of Mogh"; "VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- Smaller shockwaves have no significant detectable effects on most matter in normal space (SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")
- Starships or other systems utilizing subspace coils can produce secondary effects through interaction with the sudden shift in the local subspace metric (SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")
- Potential side effects:
- Physical jolts transmitted by forces acting on the subspace coils (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; VOY: "The Q and the Grey"; SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")
- Weaker shockwaves can misalign subspace coils (SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")
- Stronger shockwaves can displace a vessel (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- Force of a shockwave on a vessel can be reduced by orienting vessel towards source of wave (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
- Presumably a side effect of coils being oriented for forward direction of travel
- Electromagnetic pulses generated through overload of subspace coils (TNG: "11001001")
- Likely used subspace coils to generate FTL connections, akin to Starfleet computer cores in the 24th century
- Collapse of and/or inability to produce a warp field (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- Physical jolts transmitted by forces acting on the subspace coils (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; VOY: "The Q and the Grey"; SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")
- Both physical and electromagnetic effects can result in damage to a vessel (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- Potential side effects:
- Starships or other systems utilizing subspace coils can produce secondary effects through interaction with the sudden shift in the local subspace metric (SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")
- Properties of the source of the shockwave can be determined through specific properties of the wave metric (SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")
- Markers of being produced by a warp core breach include a magneton pulse (SCE Short Story: "Aftermath")