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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swack-Iron" data-source="post: 1081316" data-attributes="member: 511">Actually, the ship is probably designed with this in mind. The RPG Jovian Chronicles by Dream Pod 9 is filled with ships of a similar technology level. What we might think of as "walls" when looking at the profile of a ship are actually "floors." Spaceships like the Hyperion class are a lot like flying skyscrapers, really.Just here to help! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Excellent!It's just as big a problem for the slasher as the slashee. You're hanging there in zero-g with your sword, you reel your sword-arm back to take a big swing and you start rotating backwards! OK, plan B: you loop your feet under a pipe or something to brace yourself, then swing again, but when you hit (and presumably kill) your target it goes spinning off out of reach, spraying blood absolutely everywhere (a la Star Trek 6)...Most terrestrial martial arts simply don't work in zero-g; they rely too much on momentum, torque, and gravity. Most melee combat is likely result in a tangle of limbs. Trained zero-g combatants probably mostly go for chokes, joint-locks, and debilitating eye-gouges and the like. Flailing arms and legs just don't work too well in space.</blockquote>