Wasn't aware we had one.
What If? The Donnager had her parasite ships launched
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Wasn't aware we had one.
Per the official specs, six interior berths with each berth capable of holding one Corvette class frigate or two Morrigan class destroyers. And yes, this is a bit of a bizarro-classifications world where "destroyers" are basically corvettes, frigates are destroyers, and "Corvette" is a specific class of frigate.
Agent23
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Here you go: https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/bolo-general-thread.8626/
Or the writers show they are stinking casuals that had no idea about ship classes aside from appropriating a few ideas from some board games.
*shrugs*
They literally have the best-thought-out, most comprehensively realistic ship concepts in any even *remotely* mainstream science fiction, having funky class names is absolutely forgivable.
Agent23
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That is more a critique of modern mainstream SF than it is an endorsement of their work, IMHO.
Hard SF and military SF are doing a lot better in those departments, it is just that someone managed to borrow a bit from them and put it into a more pedestrian piece of work that somehow became popular.
Although those two were some form of henchmen for GRRM and also have experience in the marketing department IIRC, so figures.
The Expanse is literally the *only* visual science fiction where spacecraft meant to operate under sustained thrust are correctly arranged with "skyscraper style" floors rather than ship-style longitudinal decks, and where high-G maneuvering is portrayed as dangerous and requiring crew to be solidly locked down.
Agent23
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Yes, because the novels did it, and the novels became popular.
That's b/c they didn't go far enough 'forward' to the point of gravity drives and inertial comensators to magically take away the g-forces. I applaud the author for really looking at the consequences of the limitations opposed by the tech.
Agent23
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Showing people in zero G and depicting realistic space combat and travel costs extra money in effects, too.
No, even with magic-tech drives and "inertial compensators", it makes absolutely more sense for large warships to be "tower oriented" versus "boat oriented". Longitudinal orientation *only* makes sense for aerospace hybrid craft versus pure-space craft, so anything that is too big to land should always be tower-oriented.
Why? If you have a set DOWN because of tech...why does adding more floors help?
Agent23
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Being under constant acceleration creates simulated gravity as you move forward.
Hence the whole tower/skyscraper design works.