Recent content by High Orbit Drifter

The jump bubble means you could easily do EVA on the hull. I would think the jump drive could be "tuned" so that bubble was centered on the center of the ship, or otherwise crudely shaped into a more cylindrical shape. Most ships have a horizontal aspect and have the drive in the back, so a...

If you like the role playing aspects of a game, or want to try that out, you might want to look into Traveller. If you're more into space combat in and of itself, and don't want to deal with all that rp drama of whether or not you should fire on that enemy cruiser, then you will probably find...

Well, if they can convert Mimas to a battlestation, and its (3.7493±0.0031)×10^19 kg, then it shouldn't be too big a leap to do Ceres (9.393±0.005)×10^20 kg Sure, it IS an order of magnitude bigger, so they won't do Ceres until the last sequel, Star Wars, The Reforcening.

Its not quite planet sized, but close enough for our purposes. You do miss out on some things, like crystals and metals and such that would aggregate in a planetary mantel or on a crust with water present. And you get pollution in the form of rocks and debris having altered orbits, some of which...

GAH! A soulless megacorp empire will take over all of space? The slums of Ceres scenes in Expanse don't go far enough!

Stripped it off and sent it to Mars. That I can see. What I can't see is if they can do that, why don't they have a similar technique for mining Saturn's rings? Instead of guys using grabber claws for chunks of ice, they should have factory ships just scooping those beautiful rings up for...

Since I haven't read the Hub books - good luck. Keep us posted on what you do, I think this is an interesting scenario.

I've been working on a scenario something like this. Response by the authorities: If the alternate colonists are rich, they have connections. The authorities would send in security forces, grab up who they can, stick them in low berths and ship them off to their mining planet. If that is...

Very good work. The stuff you have posted here and on your blog really capture the feeling of the CT designs. I've been trying to get into Blender but that learning curve is pretty steep, even for a modeling program.

Nice work. I assume you make the models yourself. What do you use, Maya, 3ds Max or something else?

Well, my computer doesn't take up cubic dtons of space and run only a program or two at a time, so I'm overwhelmed with this TL16+ tech.

And the Empire's flagship was destroyed by a naive farm kid, a scruffy scoundrel and a ghost. Or was it destroyed by really poor engineering? Hard to decide.

What about Mirror Universe Imperial architects? Would Evil Kirk have Evil Scotty close it just in time? Or would Bearded Spock reverse the polarity and send the Proton Torpedo back at the X-Wing?

Maybe the jump gate is not just a tunnel, but turns on and off at intervals and/or changes its destination. A colony could be sent through to a great world but the gate will close for the next 4.2 years or something, or after it goes through somebody resets the controls so instead of an opening...

Agathics will return your youth, but cancer is a side effect of pretty much anything, including bacon, that we are exposed to in a given environment. The fact we die of old age masks that - if our bodies lived long enough we'd develop cancers from pretty much anything. I've assumed cancer...