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Post by srbrant on Jun 25, 2017 7:56:42 GMT
Looking for realistic yet awesome yet unorthodox bridge (Or CIC if you're going to be like that) designs for my story. Something that says "professional" and yet at the same time, "you're in the brain of a hopelessly complex gigantic space machine."
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Post by srbrant on Jun 22, 2017 5:43:28 GMT
It's not the size of the vessel that matters, it's how you use it. is something people with small ships would say Ohohohoho!
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Post by srbrant on Jun 22, 2017 5:42:32 GMT
An escape shuttle attached to the main ship would make for a durable escape craft.
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Post by srbrant on Jun 21, 2017 17:17:52 GMT
Moving back to layouts, I often wondered how a huge (read: more than 500,000 tons) ship would be built. about half as big as this 2552 feet long?! DAMN...
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Post by srbrant on Jun 21, 2017 6:38:32 GMT
THE KILLING STAR.
That is all.
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Post by srbrant on Jun 21, 2017 6:24:47 GMT
Moving back to layouts, I often wondered how a huge (read: more than 500,000 tons) ship would be built.
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Post by srbrant on Jun 21, 2017 6:23:30 GMT
Also, I believe that when you get to a certain tech level, progress will plateau for a while. I agree with this. Though I disagree on the details of the plateau (for example, no FTL in any form ever). I see information technology and engineering exploding to extremes, but the basic physics are very unlikely to ever be broken. New materials like Adamantium, Agricite* and Arachnite (the Triple-A) allow for new engineering marvels, such as Dyson Swarms and massive orbital colonies like Ferrous Reef. There's also "Brain-Paper", which is a tough, thin fabric micro-woven from a silicon composite to mimic Human neurons, giving something like an iPad ("Codex" in the story) the processing power of a supercomputer. Social and medical progress has been made as well. The lifespan of any spacefaring race caps out at the four-digit mark, Humans, Kemono and aliens alike can eat extraterrestrial food with little-to-no harmful effects (excluding gas), cancer is a disease of poverty and bigotry is treated as a mental illness. *Originally from SWAT Kats. In the story, it's a ferro-ceramic material that has a higher melting point than tungsten.
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Post by srbrant on Jun 21, 2017 4:38:12 GMT
I'm going to get dogpiled for that last post, I just know it...
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Post by srbrant on Jun 21, 2017 4:37:25 GMT
Escape pods that are designed for prompt re-entry into a habitable planet's atmosphere seem plausible, if a bit specialized. I can imagine lifeboats with a couple Km/s deltaV and a couple weeks life support making sense for certain damage scenarios (loss of atmosphere/life-support in main pressurized compartment, or maybe radiation shield compromise if their reactors look anything like the CDE ones , especially for, say space stations in a friendly area with other significant assets of some kind nearby. (In respose to bolded text) at that point you might as well install some more life support, propellant, and a secondary rad shield onto the main ship (In Respose to blue text) orbit to surface craft are only useful around titan, mars, and earth (In respose to red text) then the station can send a rescue craft you're way Also, escape pods may be hard to hit when the enemy ship flies by the orange-hot remains of its foe. One idea is that the pod is lined with cryo-capsules. Important if you end up a long way from home. Lie back, close the lid, push the big red button and pray that you aren't thawed out by pirates looking for slaves.
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Post by srbrant on Jun 21, 2017 4:22:03 GMT
This takes place in the year 5525, keep in mind. Though there ARE some ships that use centrifugal gravity to save on costs or if the required technology is unavailable. 5525 is really far. So far that only two main 'verses' really go that far: Asimov's Galactic Saga, where 5000 AD is the first dark ages (and overall has fallen to hard zeerust), and Orion's Arm, where the Inner Sphere era is ongoing, and anything not a damn AI basically exists at the whim of the AI who we can't even comprehend nor harm (generally dislocating and boring to average consumers), where the most recent thing was that a Middle-Sphere world colonized by people of South African stock had fallen to genetic plague (I'm not kidding). Are you sure you want that to be your year? Even besides the dearth in fiction, it's just hard to see oneself in. Though, hell, even anything beyond 2100 or so looks very hazy and becomes more and more generalized, at least if you want to stick somewhat with science and predictions and growth thereof. It takes place 700 years after a devastating interstellar war in which countless technologies were lost. Also, no mention of Warhammer 40,000 or Dune, which takes place 19,000 years in the future? Also, I believe that when you get to a certain tech level, progress will plateau for a while. Makes it easy to keep things under control, techwise and storywise. Plus it gives things a "timeless" feel of sorts. For practical and cultural reasons, there's sort of a kind of schizo-tech thing going on in Kemono, with self-adaptive machining and polymorphic software alongside books and vinyl records. Sometimes you just can't beat tradition.
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Post by srbrant on Jun 20, 2017 15:44:08 GMT
thermodynamics doesn't change the only way to make radiators smaller is to increase the temp and nothing is liquid above about 7k kelvins Sounds like a job for applied phlebetonium!
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Post by srbrant on Jun 20, 2017 15:01:15 GMT
why do you have escape pods? they are useless, you might as well use their mass for Re-mass or life support This is in a setting where remass efficiency has made incredible leaps and bounds, so mass isn't as big an issue (still an issue, though). The escape pods are for the following reasons: - Hopelessly outmanned during a boarding action - The radiators are damaged to the point where heat is projected to rise to extreme levels - Ship has been damaged beyond repair - Life support systems have been damaged beyond repair - Incoming projectile has locked onto the ship and has been calculated to utterly savage the vessel
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Post by srbrant on Jun 20, 2017 14:50:51 GMT
That looks like a lot of mass and volume devoted to crew, rather than the weapons. Also those radiators look really small (compared to the things I'm used to). The reason why the remass tanks are so small in comparison is because in this setting, fuel efficiency has made incredible leaps and bounds. A ship like this could easily have a Delta-V of 54.6. Units please. Is that 54.6 Mm/s (18% c)? Because 54.6 km/s would be easily achievable with MPDs on a ship like that; no need for fusion. I like the clear labeling on the drawing. You're missing one label though - the thing between "life support engines" and "warp core." Ah, sorry. Embarrassed to say that I didn't think of units. ^^; Wonder what can be used to give that fusion more purpose...pulse weapons? It is the "right" time period. Most of the guns are built into the hull rather than the "guts" of the ship. The reason why the radiators are smaller than usual is because of advances in cooling and applied thermodynamics. Yeah, I gotta get to that label. Anything else you like?
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Post by srbrant on Jun 20, 2017 6:05:35 GMT
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Post by srbrant on Jun 20, 2017 6:02:36 GMT
"Reactionless drives."
(Takes pipe out of mouth) Son, let me tell you a story. It's called "The Killing Star."
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