Plausible Gravity Drive

A question for the physicists out there.

I am working on creating a gravity drive that, I hope, while severely
bending the laws of physics, does not completely shatter them. The
purpose is to provide back story material and internal consistency, as
well as to provide me baselines to calculate energy requirements, etc.

Here's the theory of operation:

The drive creates a field of gravity at some point in front of a
spacecraft. The precise distance where the field can form is
determined by the drive mechanism and its susceptibility to tidal
forces (which tend to destabilize the generator; some technobabble
about feedback.)

Momentum is conserved via a gravity "wake", ripples in space-time with
a displacement equal to the forward momentum of the vessel. The energy
required to maintain the gravity field is equal to the gravitational
potential energy from the generator to the center of the field plus
the momentum of the wake/vessel. (For example, the gravitational wake
of a 100,000 kg vessel traveling at 10,000 m/s would be equal to the
gravity caused by a mass of 3kg)

I know a bunch of physical laws are creaking right now, but have any
shattered and thrown fragments all over my idea?

Thanks for your input.


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