Hey, @Spartan303 can we shove this discussion into one or possibly more relevant threads.
I am thinking Bolo General discussion and MilSF/Space Opera general thread?
Wasn't aware we had one.
Hey, @Spartan303 can we shove this discussion into one or possibly more relevant threads.
I am thinking Bolo General discussion and MilSF/Space Opera general thread?
We have a bolo thread?
Regarding the actual thread though, what was the maximum parasite capacity of a ship of the Donnager's class?
Here you go: https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/bolo-general-thread.8626/Wasn't aware we had one.
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.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.
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.
That is more a critique of modern mainstream SF than it is an endorsement of their work, IMHO.*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.
Yes, because the novels did it, and the novels became popular.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.
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.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.
Showing people in zero G and depicting realistic space combat and travel costs extra money in effects, too.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.
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.
Why? If you have a set DOWN because of tech...why does adding more floors help?...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.
Being under constant acceleration creates simulated gravity as you move forward.Why? If you have a set DOWN because of tech...why does adding more floors help?