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These tactical observation platforms are covered in multiple sensory modules, priced at something over a million esteyn each. Thatâs not even counting the ones that are too classified to have anything resembling a market price. This I know very well, as theyâre part of the shipâs hardware
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Streaming Stars: Averted. However incomprehensible the speeds lighthuggers move at, theyâre not nearly fast enough â and canât be, courtesy of the luminal limit â to create noticeable motion parallax. Some blue- and red-shifting and relativistic distortion, yes, once theyâre cruising along at the full 0.9c; but no
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The side beams are welded to the tank â and still no leaks, or for that matter explosions â and the chunks of hull plating bonded to the beams. For once, that went smoothly. Iâve even cut four extra short chunks of beam and welded them onto what will be the
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The remass tank is out. With the LOX tank pulled and the rest of the life-support machinery junked, pulling a few bulkhead panels let me into the forâard maintenance compartment, and thanks to a bit of forethought on the parts of the designers, the fill, drain, and press connectors
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About that LOX tank⌠The least well defined part of this candle plan has always been how to stay breathing. Before leaving Gutpunchâs hulk, I can recharge my suit reservoirs with the last of the oxygen and inert-mix1 from the emergency supplies. That would be enough for a local
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Starship Luxurious: Played straight in the Empire, even to a large extent with military vessels. Part of this â see Flaunting Your Fleets â is advertising, much as the brightwork on Age of Sail ships used to be, âlook, we can afford to do this with our naval vesselsâ, but a lot
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MET-187-5+13 et. seq. That will go more easily if I can get in behind it and push it out, but that means exposing the forward maintenance compartment. Which will be a job in itself; a Nelynâs a lot of spacecraft for its size, which has the unfortunate corollary
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MET 187-5+3 Or possibly I donât need a new plan. Since I canât think of a new plan, just a variation on the old plan, it would be very desirable that this is the case. To make it to the stargate, I would need a vector-control core,
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Excessive Steam Syndrome (was:Â Stanley Steamer Space Ship if you wondered about the alphabetization): Even those reactors that use other principles to extract energy still harness the thermal differential they produce, because itâs there and not to be wasted. Meanwhile, spacecraft require their own complex cooling infrastructure, and often
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MET 186-23+4 So Iâve been running some numbers. At a best guess from the nav data available, Gutpunch had 18.5 hours1 to run at standard cruising acceleration, 9.6 standard gravities effective2. That in turn implies that I need something approaching six million m/s of delta
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FROM: CS UNDERBELT (FIELD FLEET RIMWARD) TO: FIELD FLEET RIMWARD COMMAND (CS ARMIGEROUS PROPERTARIAN) *** ROUTINE ***Â FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 *** OVERDUE 1. CS GUTPUNCH ATTACHED TO TASK GROUP R-4-118 HAS MISSED THREE (3) ROUTINE STATUS UPLOADS AND IS NOW CONSIDERED OVERDUE. 2. CS UNDERBELT AND COHORT PROCEEDING FROM CURRENT LOCATION (PARDERIC SYSTEM)
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Space People:Â Well, about three-fifths of everyone, actually. That would be âaboutâ principally because itâs really hard to determine, say, exactly where one draws a line between people who live on large asteroids in âhabitatsâ and people who live on small moons in âdomesâ. And depending on how you