http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXIkL_m4Dfs&feature=relmfu
First off, have a look at the sequence between 1:50 and 2:03. That's how inertial dampeners should work. Just look at all the damage they cause when they "hit". I know that car has an engine of some sort and not dampeners but the expelled energy should be similar.

Also, all those black and while troops throughout the trailer - Dust mercs?

When inertia is being dampened, what makes you think there's a lot of inertia in the falling object?

well there are nuclear explsions and such but they have strict formulas and are not what I'm talking about here

All nuclear energy does, is release energy bound in matter.

When using the term Dark energy and matter, it is just referring to the energy and matter we can't detect directly, but must be there for the equations we have to make sense. It is a placeholder till we can dig into that aspect of the universe, the idea is that dark energy is to light energy, what antimatter is to matter, except that instead of a massive energy release upon contact, dark and light energy might just do the opposite, and cancel each other out entirely.


Lawrence Krauss have the following interesting formula for the universe:

(Light energy + energy bound in light matter) - (dark energy + energy bound in dark matter) = 0.

In other words, the universe did come from nothing.

Interesting. Much obliged.
However, that nuclear part was just a side note which I was ignoring for the sake of that arguement. While interesting I still think it's irrelevant to the discussion of inertial dampeners.