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Confederation Navy: Battlecruiser V. I favour the meson spinal mount for the Confederation Navy starwarships. W. More as a political statement, since the Solomani, supposedly, developed and deployed them before the Vilani. X. However, pragmatism indicates that particle accelerator spinal...

Confederation Navy: Battlecruiser Q. You could also have commonality in parts for battlecruisers concurrent with fast dreadnoughts. R. Battlecruisers could more or less have a similar design, but differ in engineering and hull armour protection. S. Currently, I have the Prometheii at a...

Gravity manipulation, one assumes.

Function follows form. They look like lions. They act like lions.

Most likely, astrogators would be aiming for the one hundred five diameter limit, which gives enough leeway, before hitting the wall.

Oxygen Enemas Could Save Lives Scientists have known for some time that certain animals can breathe using their butts, but now, researchers have determined that certain mammals can too! And in very much other news, researchers in Washington state have developed a new method for turning waste...

Spacecraft: How Star Trek Ruined Shuttlecraft... Today we take a look at the original Designs of shuttlecraft for Star Trek the Original Series; While the Galileo 7 would go on to define shuttlecraft design not only in Trek but Sci-Fi Television as a Whole. Matt Jefferies Original Vision was...

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Spacecraft: Armaments, Spinal Mounts, Mass Drivers, and Launch Tubes G. It occurs to me, that you can't accelerate while firing the mass driver spinal mount. H. At 0.3540681295062251 gee muzzle velocity, the starwarship would collide with the mass driver slug. I. This is, of course, the...

Spacecraft: Armaments, Spinal Mounts, Mass Drivers, and Launch Tubes A. Large mass driver bay is five hundred tonnes, requires thirty five power points, and costs eighty megastarbux. B. Default medium range, ten thousand klix, and six dice damage times a hundred. C. 100'000/35'303.94 equals...

Spacecraft: Armaments, Spinal Mounts, Mass Drivers, and Launch Tubes 1. Factor/one mass driver spinal mount is five kilotonnes, requires two hundred fifty power points, and costs one and a half gigastarbux. 2. Short range, twelve and a half hundred klix, four dice damage times a thousand, and...

Confederation Navy: Battlecruiser L. It sort of evolves into the Arleigh Burke/Ticonderoga similarity. M. You have the (light) cruiser baseline, specific to the Confederation Navy. N. And you try to shove that into a destroyer hull. O. Which should be a lot easier without a spinal mount. P...

The Biggest City Concept Ever (Coruscant Explained) What happens when a city never ends? No farmland. No oceans. Just planet-wide urbanization — endless towers stacked 5,000 levels deep. This video dives into the concept of the ecumenopolis — first theorized in the 1960s by Greek...

If I were to adjust that, I'd place the minimum at one hull point.

Confederation Navy: Battlecruiser G. Why do Confederation Navy light cruisers have no spinal mounts? H. Genesis was from a different edition, and maybe the authors wanted to differentiate them from the Imperium designs. I. My take on it was that there was spinal mount bottleneck. J. And...