Not seeing it in many illustration but there may be an indent that the wing section goes flush and way above the lower deck as well as the extended landing struts.

For some inspiration, try looking at Iron Sky if only for the spaceships.

Being streamlined doesn't mean you have to land just have the capability of atmospheric flight. It still can pursue other craft planetside and has VTOL to hover in place as long as the fuel holds up. Both the ship's boat and G/carrier are flight capable and can launch and dock with the corvette in f...

So this means ground vehicles, both soft and armored fighting vehicles, will be grav equivalents and energy equivalent weapons? Panzers and Shermans mounting laser cannons and autocannons? Space capable fighters launched from orbiting carriers for air superiority and ground support followed by troop...

I've had that daydream many times over. Earth discovers commercial fusion plus possibly commercial scale solar. Coal becomes obsolete as a fuel. Carbon scrubber facilities harvest... carbon all over the planet. It either goes to non energy applications or refill old mines essentially put the genie b...

"Carbon and "cheap plentiful fusion power" is going to make coal utterly obsolete" 'Coal' could be a very rare commodity especially a natural coal. Unless worlds have the vast biome and conditions to create it, it won't be a resource. Look at Mars. Same for oil and fossil gas. Alternative energy sou...

After decades, centuries or, for the OTU, thousands of years of space and star travel liquification events should be down to a science and technology especially with gravitic manipulation should make ships nearly immune to the effect unless there were a Series of Unfortunate Events to precipitate su...

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Starship building and deck plans as well as world building are fun minigames Traveller provides.

The problem with baffling is the cargo is not really a liquid and baffles would make loading and unloading far more difficult. Hauling this type of product in space will be less an issue because gravity is controlled and the pressure issue that would be caused by the weight of the product pressing d...

The environmental influences of a naval vessel and a space or starship are a bit different. Naval ships are subject to gravity as well as constant three dimensional rocking that would cause the material within to 'slosh' while the ship twists and rolls. Normally ships in space are much more stable o...

This is why you use a fence who uses contacts that market the goods out to regions less concerned with higher authority. Lots of people and places are more than happy to get wanted products without questions. Seriously, do not make deals with the Imperial merchants at the starports. We see it on mod...

"Advances in naval automation allow fewer meat-sacks, and advances in manufacturing automation make equipment relatively less expensive than meat-sacks. That's Baumol's cost disease in action, again. It turns up all over, doesn't it?" The Ultimate Computer. Also notice in Star Wars, where automation...

When you start losing crew to damage, including gunners, then your guns start being useless. Same thing for pilots and engineers. There's a reason for redundancy today and tomorrow. I'm amazed that the logic presented here hasn't translated to modern naval warfare featuring all ships up to carriers ...

I'd like to see what warships give up, tonnage wise. We would have to assume EVERY warship will need to pack a 9G engine plus the additional power source and fuel or be useless in conflict. What do they throw away since they already have no surplus space?

Could higher G maneuver engines be a displacement issue in ships with jump engines that, along with fuel, already take up a lot of tonnage?

Recent Traveller Aslan books have mentioned there are aslan in other empire who, over generations, have assimilated to the cultures they share whether superficially or to the point other aslan societies almost consider them not aslan. This gives you plenty of options on how to play your particular a...

Terrans see the similarity of parallel physicality to lions which Aslans bristle at. At the same time, humans made comparisons of culture common to Aslan with probably stylized references to ancient feudal Japan with great liberties as it was the closest (and still off) fit to put into human perspec...

Would need a Computer/35 or at least a Computer/20 to swap out programs.

It really depends on what 'exhaust' is in Traveller ship terms. Obviously reaction drive is using powerful exhaust as a motive system. No matter the illustrations we see over the last 40 years, the regular descriptions of reactionless drives indicate there is no wave or particle energy to trace. Bet...