GN-S Drive

The Gundam Nucleus-Sterling (GN-S) Drive is a more technologically adnanced and more powerful version of a true GN Drive. Currently, only one example exists, installed on the GN-001S Gundam Sterling Exia. It was designed primarily by Sterling Aarden, Gundam Meister of the Sterling Exia, taking its nane from that of its creator. It was created between 2312-2314 A.D.

Description & Characteristics
A GN Drive is a semi-perpetual generator, scaled for installation in a mobile suit, which harnesses the byproducts of baryonic decay as an energy source. Like every other power source, a GN Drive has a limited moment-by-moment output; however due to its very nature a GN Drive will continue to supply power for a theoretically infinite period of time, so long as the GN drive is not pushed to breaking limits. Within the context of mobile suit combat, it affords a unit the benefit of an inexhaustible power supply. The non-existent heat signature of its internal processes, combined with the GN Particle emissions, give any unit with a GN Drive a potent mix of stealth and ECM (Electronic Counter-Measures) characteristics; neither the GN Drive nor any thruster emissions can be seen by infrared sensors and the GN Particles scatter radar and disrupt long range communications.

The GN-S Drive has the same basic design as other true GN-Drives, except for one single component; the Topological Defect Blanket, or TD Blanket. While standard GN Drives contain a TD Blanket created using the gravity well of Jupiter, the TD Blanket used in the GN-S Drive was created using a body with a far stronger gravity well; The Sun. With a gravitational field strength approximately 11 times stronger than that of Jupiter, it allowed Sterling and the CB engineers to orbit at a reasonable distance, and still create a TD Blanket that was twice as efficient as one made at Jupiter. Thus, the GN-S Drive is capable of a particle generation rate of 200%, compared to a standard GN Drive's 100%.