“Phoenix Zero, you are blue-lighted across the board and launch commit. The clock is running. Good luck.”
And then the sky was bright with nuclear fire.
– excerpt from a dream I had last night, concerning the Empire’s space program, and more specifically their first orbital shots. And, yes, they were using Orion drive, even back then.
From: Qory Estenv, Flight Overadministrator To: All Astronauts In response to your request for clarification about the Initiative’s “souvenir policy”, we don’t particularly care if you want to shove a box of postcards, or vanity coins, or model kits of the Phoenix, or whatever else you like in
Hello, and welcome once again to Truly Awful Whiteboard Pictures season, as I present to you the basic workings of a nuclear-pulse Orion drive, Empire-style. Or at least Empire-of-the-Spaceflight-Initiative-Era style. Mostly so that I can refer to it later and y’all’ll know what I’m talking about. Behold
DROPSHIPS: EMPIRE OF THE STAR This supplement to the current edition of Naval Warships presents an update to the infamous Flapjack– and Flapjack II-class cavalry dropships. The Imperial Navy has recently adopted the Waffle-class vehicular dropship – also designated the Flapjack I (Block II) – as a phased replacement for the Flapjacks
gravity tremble: The variations in experienced gravity found aboard starships making use of the thrust gravity provided by nuclear pulse drives, or other discontinuous-thrust drives. Essentially, the gravity tremble refers to that portion of the thrust variation not damped out by the thrust transfer framework, leading to a predictable variation
wolfkazumaru replied to your quote: “Phoenix Zero, you are blue-lighted across the” Using nuclear drives in atmo? Tsk, tsk, that’s dangerous. Ah, you humans and your silly fragile immune systems… Well, considering at the time they were already using nuclear power plants, nuclear furnaces, nuclear-powered vehicles, and nuclear devices