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A launch channel is a launch accelerator channel for smaller craft installed on a larger base or within a capital ship, allowing the ship to launch at rapid speeds over a shorter distance without using its own engines.

Draconia's launch channels are irregular pentagon shaped tubes, with the angular point on the underside of the ship.

A drugged William "Buck" Rogers is wowed by the light show as Ranger 3 launches from Draconia.

Notes

Ideally, a launch channel allows these smaller craft to launch safely from spaceships, without risk of engine backwash running amok through the craft bays from whence they came.
The launch channel doubtless shares inspiration with the launch tubes from the Battlestar Galactica television series.

Gallery

A Hatchet fighter emerges from Draconia's launch channel aperture (BR25: Film, "Awakening").
A pair of Draconia's launch channel apertures (BR25: Film, "Awakening").
The electronic "hooks" rapidly approach Ranger 3 (BR25: Film, "Awakening").
From Ranger 3's cockpit, William "Buck" Rogers is amazed by the sudden acceleration and light show of the launch channel (BR25: Film, "Awakening").
A clear, unobstructed view of Draconia's launch channel (BR25: Film, "Awakening").
Four of Draconia's launch channels in a staggered array (BR25: Film, "Awakening").

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-[[File:BR25 - Buck Rogers Frozen.png|thumb|{{Buck}} frozen in a state of suspended animation in ''[[Ranger 3]]''{{'|s}} cockpit {{BR25|Awakening}}.]]
+[[File:BR25 - Draconia Launch Channel from Ranger 3's Cockpit.png|thumb|{{buck}}'s perspective of ''[[Draconia]]''{{'|s}} launch channel {{BR25|Film|Awakening}}.]]
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+A '''launch channel''' is a launch accelerator channel for smaller craft installed on a larger base or within a capital ship, allowing the ship to launch at rapid speeds over a shorter distance without using its own engines.
-|Kane|{{buck|The man lives}}, I'm not sure why.
-|Ardala|You're not sure why? Is this a puzzle for me to decipher?
-|Kane|The puzzle is for me to decipher. [[Ranger 3|The ship]] is antiquated... unlike anything I've seen in the star system, or outside of history books for that matter.
-|Ardala|Kane, please.
-|Kane|He was frozen by a combination of gasses: oxygen, [[cryogen]], ozone, [[methalon]]. Almost a perfect balance.
-|Ardala|Well, these are techniques used throughout the galaxy for terminal illness and disease.
-|Kane| Yes, ''today''. However, there is another matter: the man's ship.
-|Ardala|Kane, you have one more minute.
-|Kane|His instrumentation was stopped, frozen solid in the year [[1987]].
-|attribution=[[Kane]] and [[Ardala]] on their visitor, {{BR25|Awakening|prose=y}}
-}}
-'''Suspended animation''' is the overall terminology depicting the process of preserving a living subject using various forms of gasses, as well as other technologies. The term '''cryogenics''', depicting the science of how suspended animation is achieved, is also used as a moniker for this process.
+''[[Draconia]]''{{'|s}} launch channels are irregular pentagon shaped tubes, with the angular point on the underside of the ship.
-Its use on [[Earth]] predates the events of [[1987]] CE's [[World War III]], and two persons from the 20th century are known to have survived into the 25th century due to cryogenics: {{buck}} and [[Hieronymus Fox]] {{BR25|Awakening|Cosmic Whiz Kid}}.
+A drugged {{buck}} is wowed by the light show as ''[[Ranger 3]]'' launches from ''Draconia''.
-For {{buck}}, the cryogenic process is an accidental one, caused by a malfunction of his life support system aboard ''[[Ranger 3]]'' during [[NASA]]'s last deep space probe {{BR25|Awakening}}. In Fox's case, the child prodigy invented and tested a prototype [[cryo tube]] on his person prior to WWIII. Both this chamber and its subject are taken from Earth by unnamed extraterrestrials and, throughout the next five centuries, invariably ends up on [[Genesia]] {{BR25|Cosmic Whiz Kid}}.
+== Notes ==
-== 25th Century ==
+* Ideally, a launch channel allows these smaller craft to launch safely from spaceships, without risk of engine backwash running amok through the craft bays from whence they came.
+* The launch channel doubtless shares inspiration with the [[bsgwiki:launch tube|launch tube]]s from the ''[[bsgwiki:Battlestar Galactica|Battlestar Galactica]]'' television series.
-In the 25th century, the developed worlds of the galaxy, including the [[Draconians]], utilize suspended animation to preserve life for a variety of reasons, such as the preservation of an individual requiring medical attention {{BR25|Awakening}}.
+== Gallery ==
-Following the interception of {{Buck}} aboard ''[[Ranger 3]]'' in [[2491]] CE, [[Kane]] informs Princess [[Ardala]] that Rogers' preservation—and subsequent revival by Draconian life sciences—is nothing short of miraculous. Kane surmises that the perfect balance of the four gasses of oxygen, [[cryogen]], ozone and [[methaon]] were responsible for preserving Rogers over the many centuries {{BR25|Awakening}}.
+<gallery mode="slideshow">
+File:BR25 - Draconia Launch Tube Aperture.png|A [[Hatchet fighter]] emerges from ''[[Draconia]]''{{'|s}} launch channel aperture {{BR25|Film|Awakening}}.
+File:BR25 - Draconia Launch Tube Aperture - Set of 2.png|A pair of ''[[Draconia]]''{{'|s}} launch channel apertures {{BR25|Film|Awakening}}.
+File:BR25 - Draconia Launch Channel from Ranger 3's Cockpit - Early Stage.png|The electronic "hooks" rapidly approach ''[[Ranger 3]]'' {{BR25|Film|Awakening}}.
+File:BR25 - Rogers' Reaction to the Launch Channel Light Show.png|From ''[[Ranger 3]]''{{'|s}} cockpit, {{buck}} is amazed by the sudden acceleration and light show of the launch channel {{BR25|Film|Awakening}}.
+File:BR25 - Draconian Launch Channel.png|A clear, unobstructed view of ''[[Draconia]]''{{'|s}} [[launch channel]] {{BR25|Film|Awakening}}.
+File:BR25 - Draconia's Quartet of Launch Channel Apertures .png|Four of ''[[Draconia]]''{{'|s}} [[launch channel]]s in a staggered array {{BR25|Film|Awakening}}.
+</gallery>
-The technology is in other arenas as well, including [[Velis]]' escape capsule {{BR25|The Golden Man}}.
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