Docking Clamps vs. Spaces

[Condottiere]

How does that work in the deep wells of hangars, cargo holds, and engineering?

 

[rinku]

Potentially you might need to have a countering field going in an opposing direction to keep the forces balanced, but most ships have fuel and equipment spaces where that could be set up.

 

[rinku]

How does that work in the deep wells of hangars, cargo holds, and engineering?

Each area just needs a floor and a ceiling. Standard rules allow sectional gravity to be varied, so big volumes might need different tuning, but it shouldn't be noticable.

 

[Condottiere]

If gravitational tiling has a field effect, the strength would need to be standard.

You'd have to increase the strength with an increased ceiling, to maintain that.

Since we don't pay directly for the gravitational tiling, but default it to a fifty kilostarbux per tonne default cost, inverting the tiling and gluing them to the ceiling, should create a gravitational field outside the hull.

 

[rinku]

Mmm, but they're talking about some kind of acceleration field that operates between the plates. if you invert them, they probably won't work, though you could possibly reverse the top and bottom plates to turn down into up.

I can accept that maybe the forces are balanced anyway and that's it, but just had an idle thought that there might need to be a counterbalancing field operating in plates positioned above or below the room. The deck height wouldn't need to be the same - just the overall opposing field strengths so there's an equilibrium.

Heck, the countering field could exist totally within the grav plates and only matter if live maintenance was required...