starship
So, letâs now turn to the topic of sensors, and what exactly is in that CilmĂnĂĄr Spaceworks AE-35 âstandard navigational sensor suiteâ built into the majority of current-era starships. There are two primary groups of sensors incorporated into such a suite, referred to as ânavigationalâ and âtacticalâ â even on
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Sapient Ship: Well, while the sophont ship AIs are not actually bound to their ships (theyâre regular infomorphs hired for the position, so the captain of CS Repropriator one day may be the admiral on board CS Sovereignty Emergent some years later, and the retiree drinking whisky in the
'fresher
The primary hygiene component of a standard shipboard âfresher is a cylindrical translucent compartment, resembling a drug capsule set on its end, with a watertight sealing door. At top and bottom, gratings conceal powerful counter-rotating fan/turbine units. In dynamic mode, these fan/turbines are engaged to blow (at the
starship
The current standard for docking adapters in Imperial space, suitable for both docking and berthing, is defined by IOSS 52114, the Imperial Universal Starship Interface (IUSI). The standard defines androgynous docking adapters in three standard sizes (IUSI-C/crawlspace, IUSI-P/gangway, and IUSI-F/freight container), in both standard (containing a transfer
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Point Defenseless: Utterly averted. The automated point-defense systems â usually plasma lasers or other Energy Weapons, for their speed and reaction time, gridded across the hull â will rip to pieces just about anything that gets within their range in an colorful orgy of photonic destruction, unless itâs extremely fast, capable
military
So, while it now seems to have disappeared from the Internet, my article on Non-Standard Starship Scuffles appears to have come in for some little criticism: First, for having FTL in it; and Second, for assuming that space battles will take place in open space, the commenter apparently not seeing
starship
The good thing about starship disasters is that they so rarely turn into catastrophes. Which is to say, sure, you can kill yourself, and you get your crew and your passengers killed, and if you try hard enough, you can go hurtling out of the system into the deep black
starship
Yes, that means itâs bad sketch time again here at the Eldraeverse⌠so here, have an interface vehicle. LOWARI-CLASS PINNACE/SHUTTLE Operated by: Various starports and near-orbit stations; capital ships. Type: Pinnace / shuttle (belly-lander) Construction: Llyn Standard Manufacturing, ICC & various licensees. Atmosphere-capable: Yes. Gravity well-capable: Yes. Personnel: 3
reaction drive
Well, folks, itâs terrible sketch day again here at the Eldraeverse⌠So, this is my approximate representation of what exactly one of those âtrimodal NTRsâ I keep talking about as the engine of choice for shuttles, lighters, and suchlike planetarily-landing craft looks like in cross-section. It is anything but
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Ominous Floating Spaceship: Itâs certainly possible (see, for example, all the examples of how itâs done under Floating Continent). Itâs almost never done, however, because (a) putting all the equipment to make it hover, and the power budget to power said equipment into a combat spacecraft makes
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Old-School Dogfighting: No. Just no, except for specialized orbit-to-atmosphere interceptor craft that would more properly be described as âfighter-interceptor aircraft with limited suborbital capabilityâ. Ainât no air in space. Ainât no space fighters, either â hanging the mass of a meatbody and its life support, including acceleration limits, off