Gyges Military Jump-Shuttle (PX-27 Class)

Designed to outrun the apocalypse, the Gyges shuttle can carry six to twelve passengers and two

pilots to the far ends of the universe. Due to the constraints of using a gravity sump in a gravity well, the Gyges’s ion drive is only able to accelerate at 15g near a planet, but that acceleration doubles at 3,000 km, 7,000 km, and 11,000 km from an object with the mass of Earth. At full acceleration, it takes a Gyges shuttle fifteen minutes to exit the gravity well and engage its Icarus engine, allowing it to translate at accelerations of up to 1 AU/s^2 in-system (8.5 seconds from Earth to Neptune) and maximum speeds of 16c in dark space without the use of jump points or fold corridors (about three months from Earth to Proxima b).Notable Gyges Military Jump Shuttles (PX-27 class):


 * Betsy II