Inertia-suppression Machinery permitted the alteration of a ship's inertial mass and was primarily used to allow high-g acceleration for interstellar travel. It worked by manipulating the fluctuations and turmoil in quantum foam that caused momentum and inertia -- similar to the concept of the Higgs Boson particle. The device had four settings, or "states". State one was an increase in inertia, which had potential applications in stasis and defense technologies -- though humanity was only ever to achieve it on the microscopic scale. State two allowed for suppression of inertia to varying degrees, and was the standard function of the machinery. State three was a total suppression of mass, in that all matter would become photonic and would have to travel the speed-of-light; however, that sta