https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbe74S4Noag

Couldn't find an image of sudden stop.

Confederation Navy: Organization I'm going to take a stab at this. Squadrons are administrative formations, smaller vesselled ones tend to be broken up and assigned independent missions and/or attached to larger vesselled units. Task Forces are operational formations, principally built around a Fle...

Spaceships: Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon and Solar Panelling Taking this a step further, the expectation seems to be that he vessel can sustain, even if only temporarily, one gee constant acceleration. That means the power requirement increases by fifty percent, which means a half tonne of s...

Spaceships: Engineering, Sunbathing and It's Not Easy Being Green https://sunbeamwhdh.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/3398563_g.jpg?w=639 If the panels are fitted to a ship without a power plant, then assume the (non–existent) power plant is sized to the ship’s basic systems and a Thrust one manoeuvre ...

I'd allow the lanthanum grid to arrive at the destination faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3QfbtrfBjA

“Stratolaunch” is a 500,000-pound beast with twin fuselages and a wingspan of 385 feet- and it just made another huge step in the space industry!

Glue gun, lethal if it hits both mouth and nose.

Bean bags from shotguns.

Though presumably you could load up a mini net in a shotgun shell.

Maps with a tactile feel, supposedly the next development for smart phones and/or tablets.

While you still have vision, mental visualization and/or carrying out of tasks while you still can compare both.

You throw three plus dice.

Any result with two ones is a failure, any result with two sixes is a success.

Which begs the question, why the provision for one gee thrust?

It's kinda pointless throwing money down a blackhole, unless you know it will get results at the end.

On the other hand, steady investment in more powerful rockets and propulsion, would reduce the size of the rockets in percentage terms.

Why Single Stage to Orbit rockets SUCK. The wacky history and future maybes of SSTOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfc2Jg1gkKA Rockets are HUGE, complicated and expensive. As a matter of fact, the rocket that took humans to the moon, the Saturn 5, was 111 meters or 363 feet tall, and had more sep...

Confederation Navy: First Fleet Squadron

Planetary Assaults & Invasions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwzATXm9Oso We continue our look at Space Warfare by examining the notion of assaulting and invading planets. Often seen in fiction as vulnerable locations at the mercy of space-based weapons and fleets, we will see that they are far mo...

It's a magic bubble.

But to be fair, what happened to all that hydrogen when you used a lanthanum grid?

Unlike organic beings, spaceships don't regenerate naturally, and even technological level ten hulls' self sealing should fail after some point.

You probably have to patch up a critically compromised hull before you attempt an atmospheric landing.

The real difference should be the operator or the readiness status of the bridge.

Between routine operations and looking for an anomaly.

The design sequence should divorce solar panelling size and output from hull volume, and give a set amount per volume; it is of course at the moment very dependent on the output of the installed power plant, which can vary in price and output depending on technological level and customization. Havin...

Spaceships: Hulls, Pop Up Turrets, Double Hulls, and Bunkerage




What you could do during the jump ignition, is a Chinese puzzle, in that as the fuel is expended, the fuel tanks are drawn in, balanced by lounge areas popping out.