I was just wondering about whether, in the fusion plants we know to be the main power plants or the jump drives, gravity control was a technology involved in those systems?

Obviously, for thruster plates, aka main drive, that's a 100% certainty.

But are there places in the fusion process where gravity control could be used to make the process safer, higher output, better returns on fuel conversion, etc?

And for the jump drive, has anything ever been said to suggest or deny the use of a gravitic control within the jump drives?

This question came up in a round about way: Someone in an old white dwarf was talking about implied skills (Your Engineer-4 lacking mechanical can't change a car tire, but can slap together a smashed up ship with riggers tape...) and I could probably imagine where Engineer could count as at least a level of Electronics or Mechanical. I then naturally wondered about gravitics... as because Engineer skill can fix main drives, and they include gravitics, maybe there's a minimum gravitics level assumed. (In MT, that would be 'acts as').

Thoughts? I know it piles a fair bit onto the Engineer skill, but at the same time, there's already a lot on that skill by virtue of it not being cascaded into Main Drive Engineer, Jump Drive Engineer, Power Plant Engineer, and Ship Systems Engineer (the rest).

Would it be fairly reasonable to assume if you have a high level of Engineer, you must at least have the equivalent of Electronics, Mechanical and/or Gravitics?

TomB