Assuming you can get them into position.fredgiblet wrote:Orbital bombardment is a good use for them.
And, as Arioch said of my suggestion, Terran spacecraft aren't equipped for throwing rocks.
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Assuming you can get them into position.fredgiblet wrote:Orbital bombardment is a good use for them.
I think these points have been covered before (repeatedly), but to reiterate...Just a Crazy-Man wrote:Even so you can in dark on momentum and get so close there response time cut in half. Why Psi abilities null thanks to preprogram unmanned drone attack craft.
Very cool, but no-one commented on the exposed bridge?RedDwarfIV wrote:Final draft:
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Nono, that's the flag bridge!Whale wrote:RedDwarfIV wrote:Wasn't the front window on America-class just an observation deck too?
In my mind, there's a difference between 'Bridge' and 'CIC'. The 'bridge' is where you can actually look outside through windows. It acts as a secondary command centre for peacetime activity, but is otherwise fairly useless. Being in a bridge can help some with docking maneuvers and other things that require your own binocular vision as opposed to a 2D image from a camera. The Loroi have a better way of doing it though. The bridge may also be known as the 'control deck', 'flight deck', 'CnC' or 'Drive Room'.Whale wrote:Very cool, but no-one commented on the exposed bridge?RedDwarfIV wrote:Final draft:
*pics*
Wasn't the front window on America-class just an observation deck too?
I know. But I had to put one on to stay with the design aesthetic humans in Outsider have. As Arioch said, if this was 100% hard sci-fi then the spacecraft would all look like skyscrapers with engines, and maybe with cylinders for rotating sections. A lot of the design of these spacecraft does come down to looks. But even the Bellarmine was controlled from what was basically a CIC IIRC.Zakharra wrote:Having a bridge on a starship where you can actually see outside is foolish. A properly placed bridge would be deeper in the vessel (and sticking it on the front on something like a battleship or cruisers seems just as foolish too). The flag bridge would be in a different place in the ship as would the CIC, although the CIC might be the main bridge too in many vessels.
RedDwarfIV wrote:I know. But I had to put one on to stay with the design aesthetic humans in Outsider have. As Arioch said, if this was 100% hard sci-fi then the spacecraft would all look like skyscrapers with engines, and maybe with cylinders for rotating sections. A lot of the design of these spacecraft does come down to looks. But even the Bellarmine was controlled from what was basically a CIC IIRC.Zakharra wrote:Having a bridge on a starship where you can actually see outside is foolish. A properly placed bridge would be deeper in the vessel (and sticking it on the front on something like a battleship or cruisers seems just as foolish too). The flag bridge would be in a different place in the ship as would the CIC, although the CIC might be the main bridge too in many vessels.