Oolite Bulletins

Why asteroids don't have such effect ? Another question - why hermits don't have such effect ? It is a bit strange, when the ship inside hermit, it does not impact on torus drive. But when it leaves hermit, the torus drive is locked.
As I understand, asteroids and hermits have much bigger mass than any ship, however they look like have no mass at all or have "diffferent kind of mass".

Different kind of mass - mass lock isn't caused by gravitational mass, but only by the mass of spooky matter inside the torus drive.

Wildeblood wrote:

Different kind of mass - mass lock isn't caused by gravitational mass, but only by the mass of spooky matter inside the torus drive.

More or less ... A spaceship's reactionless drive puts a big dent in local spacetime, which will cause a masslock. An object like a moon or a planet is big enough to also bend spacetime to an extent sufficient to cause a masslock, but your average asteroid isn't.

Usually the torus drive is locked on leaving a hermit because there's another ship around, such as an asteroid miner. But I've occasionally left a hermit and have immediately been able to use the drive because there was no other ship.