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>The best you can do is drag the warp field behind your ship with normal thrusters. Ok we can build a warp trebuchet.

The static warp field doesn't allow you to go faster than light because it doesn't move relative to the generator. You can drag the field around at sublight speeds but that's about it.

Though IIRC they played around with some different geometries that did move, but the energy required was many times more than the entire universe contains.

Without reading any of the mathematics, I propose the warplev equivalent of maglev trains. We build a long train of these devices that we then turn on and off at the right times in order to propel something. It's genius and I will be making a wikipedia page, .io domain, and putting up an Angelist RUV.

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