Need Starships w/ rotating sections
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Picture of Zephyr from Battlestar Galactica.
Picture of Leonov from 2010.
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Picture of Leonov from 2010.
Check out this web page for Traveller 2300AD. There's tons of them here, and they're fantastic.
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Are you talking about minis or deck plans or what?
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Mustrum_Ridcully
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Wasn't the Discovery from 2001 also using a rotating section? Oh, no, you can't really see that it did that...
I seem to remember the ship from Sunshine also had a rotating section:
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And the Antares from Defying Gravity also had a few rotating sections.
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I seem to remember the ship from Sunshine also had a rotating section:
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And the Antares from Defying Gravity also had a few rotating sections.
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Most battleships from the Gundam anime series have rotating sections to produce artificial gravity, but for the most part they are completely internal, so they don't have any visible rotation from the outside. The only ones that do have external rotating sections are the Argama and Jupitris from Zeta Gundam, the latter being big enough to be called a mobile space colony.
Edit: Wow, I can't believe I never thought about this until now, but ships with rotating sections (particularly large ones) are a seriously bad idea, especially for combat. Because of angular momentum and rotational inertia, simply having a rotating section will make it much harder to turn a ship for the same reason a spinning bicycle wheel wants to stay upright. A ship with a rotating section might take twice as much energy to turn as the same ship with the section fixed in place. That, and large external rotating sections are pretty vulnerable targets in space battles. This is a pretty big disadvantage to suck up in exchange for a luxury like gravity.
Edit: Wow, I can't believe I never thought about this until now, but ships with rotating sections (particularly large ones) are a seriously bad idea, especially for combat. Because of angular momentum and rotational inertia, simply having a rotating section will make it much harder to turn a ship for the same reason a spinning bicycle wheel wants to stay upright. A ship with a rotating section might take twice as much energy to turn as the same ship with the section fixed in place. That, and large external rotating sections are pretty vulnerable targets in space battles. This is a pretty big disadvantage to suck up in exchange for a luxury like gravity.
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Yeah I realize that rotating sections are a bad idea in combat. I am assuming that they would secure from rotation when they go to battle stations. Actually after I started watching that show Defying Gravity that Ridcully suggested I think that they would go into the more protected center section during maneuvers anyway.
One of the things that I want to show in this game is the changes that occur from one tech level to another. I am trying to have a setting at every major tech level, with some tech levels with multiple settings. The next tech level after the Fusion Age is the Gravitic Age and will have full artificial gravity as well as inertial dampening and gravitic acceleration so it will be a completely different beast.
One of the things that I want to show in this game is the changes that occur from one tech level to another. I am trying to have a setting at every major tech level, with some tech levels with multiple settings. The next tech level after the Fusion Age is the Gravitic Age and will have full artificial gravity as well as inertial dampening and gravitic acceleration so it will be a completely different beast.
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