304 | John W. Warner IV the nucleus in a high spin rate. Who knows what else? Once spun up to 50,000 rpm, it will pull energy out of the vacuum of space-time and produce an estimated 900 million volts, hence the need for this insulated room. As I said, the AEG-built electric motor is an almost exact copy of the original Atlantean unit that had eroded with time, leaving us only a few bits here and there to back-engineer. Soon well have it at peak efficiency. Porsche smiled, slide rule in hand. And an engineer figured it out. Took my men and I six months to re-design it ftom the various antique pieces before the AEG men got their hands on it for final assembly. Every copper and gold wire threaded by hand with myself as witness. Magnets and electric motors I know well from my early days in Vienna.The generator went back to green. Gerlach tried to ignore him. See? Its fine. Once up to optimal speed, additional plasma will be routed by this conduit directly into the hollow propshaft and out the edge vents in each propeller blade, thus providing the electrons needed for antigravitic horizontal thrust, otherwise the propellers would not work with the ships powerful electromagnetic bubble. We call it Magneto-gravities. But we must unlock more power to use this system at peak efficiency. Your Projects Cinnabar and Cbronos, blurted Bernie. How irritatingly knowledgeable you are, Herr Rodgers, sneered Klemperer. Indeed, laughed Gerlach. Enough hokum-pocus. Whats the damn horsepower rating of this rig? asked Bea, uninterested in physics. Unknown. replied Gerlach lovingly, his hand outline glowing blue as he touched the white casing. It reacts to the touch as if it were alive and sentient. If only it could speak… Porsche adjusted his slide-rule and made calculations. By my reckoning…at peak performance…somewhere near 1.269 million brake horsepower. With Porsche, Baumann, and Gerlach left to their various duties, Schafer led his group to a large alcove several hundred meters away from the hangar area. Wide, it had been carved out with precision. A large pile of twisted black and green metal met them. Here is whats left of the Atlantean airship, it was shaped like a pumpkin seed originally, about a hundred meters long by sixty wide. Most of the fuselage is made of an