Ship Design Philosophy

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Starships: Engineering and The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities

That Einstein guy was a real bummer for our hopes of a star-hopping, science-fiction-y future. His whole “nothing travels faster than light” rule seems to ensure that exploration of even the local part of our galaxy will be an excruciating slow. But Einstein also gave us a glimmer of hope. He showed us that space and time can be warped - and so the warp drive was conceived. Just recently, a couple of papers contend that these are not pure science fiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bxHetL4s


1. Negative energy density.

2. Negative mass, or exotic matter.

3. Closed timeline curves - broken with a disintegrating jump bubble.

4. Bubbles slide through space.

5. Isolated wave.

6. Possible local black hole?

7. Any enclosed surface can make a warp drive?

8. Or a decaying jump bubble.

 

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Starwarships: Star Wars: Inside the Venator Star Destroyer

The Venator-class Star Destroyer makes its first theatrical appearance in Revenge of the Sith during the opening Battle of Coruscant.

Within the Star Wars setting, these ships are regarded as the most powerful capital ships of the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars, serving double duty as battleships and starfighter carriers

The Venator-class Star Destroyer, also known as a Republic attack cruiser or Jedi Cruiser, was a line of wedge-shaped Star Destroyers in service with the Galactic Republic Navy during the Clone Wars.

The backbone of the Galactic Republic's naval forces, the Venator was a versatile capital ship capable of serving as a troop carrier, a cargo transport, and a warship for ship-to-ship combat.
Often utilized as flagships by the Jedi Generals of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Venator-class was closely associated with the Jedi Order as a result. Venators served in several major engagements of the Clone Wars.

Ultimately, though, the Venator-class was decommissioned and replaced by the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, a larger warship that was modeled on its Republic predecessor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7x51BZl2Q


1. Atmospheric operations.

2. Big ass flight deck hatches.

 

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Inspiration: Fleet Carrier Arrival Animation | Elite Dangerous Beta

I jumped into the signal source created for my fleet carrier's arrival instance and watched it entering the system, it has to be said this was no short of amazing to watch!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9P47BiaEE


In space, everything creaks.

 

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Inspiration: Candace, Baljeet & Buford - In The Empire (From "Phineas and Ferb")

I don't know but I've been told! The Rebels need to be controlled! Candace loves being in the Empire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_HL9PUVQ4


1. Your meals are free!

2. Obviously, the Empire needs a reOrdering.

 

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Starwarship: Star Wars: Inside the Slave 1

Slave I, also spelled Slave One, was a modified Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft used by the infamous Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett before the Clone Wars and later his unaltered cloned son Boba Fett just prior to the Fall of the Republic and during the reign of the Galactic Empire.

The ship in its original form was produced by a subsidiary company of Kuat Drive Yards, based on the planet Kuat.

Furthermore, the ship became well-known to the galaxy's fugitives, who recognized it as the galaxy's deadliest bounty hunter.

During the Galactic Civil War, the adult Boba Fett flew Slave I to meet up with the Imperial fleet.
Darth Vader later tasked Boba and a group of bounty hunters to capture Han Solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx8BJ3zuAKQ


Personally, I think this ship would qualify as a Mary Sue, with too many weapon systems squashed in.

 

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Starwarships: Star Wars: A Detail Look Inside the Millennium Falcon

This video covers an external and internal view of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.

The Millennium Falcon is a fictional starship in the Star Wars franchise. Designed by Joe Johnston for the movie Star Wars (1977).

The Millennium Falcon, original designation YT 492727ZED and formerly known as the Stellar Envoy, was a Corellian YT-1300f light freighter most famously used by the smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca, during the Galactic Civil War.

Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian in the card game 'sabacc' several years before the events of the film A New Hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfnVXWAF6c


1. Considering double cockpits can now fly two hundred tonne ships.

2. Being at the side, might allow them to be detachable.

3. For some reason, I always thought the laser turrets were on the side.

 

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Inspiration: Firefly: The Whole Story Like You've Never Heard it Before!

This is the Definitive History of Firefly. This documentary is one of a kind. The firefly story has never been told from beginning to end. Prepare to learn things you never knew about one of the greatest science fiction franchises of all time! We explain the short life of this amazing scifi epic western.

Firefly was lucky to be born at all but the reason it was canceled and the movie sabotaged was because extreme incompetence and a very stubborn director.

Chapters:
0:00​ Introduction
3:36​ Joss Whedon
6:40​ Buffy The Vampire Slayer
10:20​ Killer Angels
13:40​ Firefly Cast
29:10​ The Theme Song
32:30​ Needed Help
33:52​ Network Trouble
35:45​ The Death Slot
40:00​ Nathan Fillion
43:00​ Sabotage
45:20​ Canceled
47:10​ Fans Fight back
51:15​ Serenity Movie
1:07:30​ What's Next?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d-I3ajXvw


1. Stagecoach - who knew?

2. Simon "Doogie" Tam - typecasting.

3. Were there rumours about Buffy?

4. Everyone's expendable, or the ship.

5. Not sure if the Disney treatment wouldn't kill of the fanbase.

 

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Inspiration: Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Official Trailer | Disney+

Check out the brand-new trailer for Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Bad Batch,” an original animated series launching exclusively on Disney+. “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” makes its debut on Tuesday, May 4, with a special 70-minute premiere, followed by new episodes every Friday starting on May 7.

“Star Wars: The Bad Batch” follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in “The Clone Wars”) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch—a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army—each possess a singular exceptional skill that makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew.

“Star Wars: The Bad Batch” is executive produced by Dave Filoni (“The Mandalorian,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”), Athena Portillo (“Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” “Star Wars Rebels”), Brad Rau (“Star Wars Rebels,” “Star Wars Resistance”) and Jennifer Corbett (“Star Wars Resistance,” “NCIS”) with Carrie Beck (“The Mandalorian,” “Star Wars Rebels”) as co-executive producer and Josh Rimes as producer (“Star Wars Resistance”). Rau is also serving as supervising director with Corbett as head writer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOmYpP4UDU

 

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Starwarships: Fleet Tankers

1. Tankers are a class of starship used by the Cylon Empire for the transport of fuel and the refueling of vessels in interstellar transit. During the Battle of Cimtar, tankers were used in place of Basestars to refuel a massive Raider force, and were equipped with jamming technology.

2. Never quite figured out exactly how Traveller expects their fleet tankers to work.

3. Considering the volume required in relation from tanker to tankee for interstellar travel in Traveller, they'd have to be immense, and the starwarships rather smallish.

4. At best, you'd have to set up staging posts and massive fuel dumps, if the idea is to complete the manoeuvre planned within a timely manner.

5. At around one eighth of volume per jump factor for the tanker, and one tenth of volume as refuelling payload for the tankee, assuming equal tonnage for both.

6. At jump factor four plus four, you'd use up ninety percent of volume.

7. You'd also have to factor in other aspects, such as manoeuvre drives, powerplants, fuel shuttles, onboard defensive systems, and close escorts,

8. Since presumably support ship tonnage is a trade off with combat ship tonnage, you're not likely to have enough tankers to refuel all combatants in the navy simultaneously.

9. For a major task force attempting to cross a large area of space in two jumps, without relying on local fuel sources, you'd have to concentrate quite a substantial percentage of your fleet tankers at one spot, that if the opposing side knew of it, would tend to give the game away.

 

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Starwarships: Fleet Tankers and Black Buck One, the Vulcan Raid on the Falklands - Animated

Operation Black Buck One, 30th April—1st May 1982 - 2 Avro Vulcans and 11 Handley Page Victors take off from Ascension Island to complete, at the time, the longest bombing raid in history on Port Stanley Airfield on the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War.

Source - Vulcan 607 by Rowland White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5yAtuYPHK4

 

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Inspiration: Star Citizen - Hercules Starlifter & Nova Tank - In Game Now... Kinda!

00:00 - Star Citizen New Ships 3.13.1
00:30 - Herclues C2
10:05 - Hercules M2
17:50 - Nova Tank
22:00 - What Do You Think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjhD8S3OvXA


1. Roll on, roll off.

2. Which would make at least dirtside cargo loading and unloading easier and faster.

3. If you make the second deck airtight, opening up the lower cargo deck would, in theory, lessen enclosed volume, and increase ship performance.

4. Or, you could push in a bunch of hydrogen tanks, maybe on wheels, that would increase bunkerage, with appropriate modifications to the ship's plumbing system.

5. Max Headroom.

 

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Starwarships: Starlab: Victory Class Star Destroyer I&II

The VSD, one of the best starships from ye olden days of Star Wars lore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IANW51nKhhQ

 

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Starwarships: Classifications

Capital ship
Based on tonnage and capability, over a hundred kilotonnes, and either a heavily armed and protected ship of the line, or a carrier of combat craft capable of combined massive power projection.

Major combatant
Based on tonnage and capability, minimum twenty five kay tonnes, to possibly above a hundred kilotonnes, either a quite heavily armed and protected vessel, or a carrier of combat craft capable of a hefty collective punch.

Minor combatant
Based on tonnage and capability, below twenty five kilotonnes, but above five kay tonnes, capable of a substantial contribution to combat power, either directly or as a force multiplier.

Intermediate combatant
Normally, a major combatant sized vessel but with combat capability on par with a minor combatant.

Large combatants
Based on tonnage, combat capable ships above five kilotonnes.

Medium combatants
Based on tonnage, combat capable ships above a kilotonne.

Small combatants
Based on tonnage, combat capable ships above a hundred tonnes.

Bombers
Strike craft, principally armed with physical ordnance, usually missiles or torpedoes.

Fighters
Spacecraft, capable of intercepting and destroying other spacecraft, and securing aerospace control.

 

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Starships: Engineering and Smallest Cheapest Possible Jump Drive

1. This came about because I was wondering which produced a cheaper drive, a high technologized size reduced jump drive, or the budgetted variant.

2. You can have both, but not with a thirty percent size reduction and a twenty five percent increased size.

3. It doesn't seem logical.

4. And then I remembered taking out original content and trying to squeeze it into a smaller container.

5. First, you you reduce the size of a technological level twelve ten tonne factor one jump drive to seven tonnes, at a cost of fifteen and three quarters megastarbux.

6. Then you order the budgetted variant of the above, increasing the size of the internal components by a quarter.

7. However, you've already reached a minimum size of seven tonnes with the model that the increased size variant is derived from.

8. Which means that the new model has a performance of 160 parsec tonnes, at a cost of 11.8125 megastarbux.

9. Compare to default technological level nine ten tonne jump drive with a performance of one hundred sixty parsec tonnes, costing eleven and a quarter megastarbux

10. Difference three tonnes and 562'500 starbux.

11. 187'500 starbux per tonne opportunity cost, if you think that extra tonnage can be utilized better, plus technological level twelve maintenance against technological level nine.

 

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Starships: Engineering and Smallest Cheapest Possible Jump Drive

12. Oops, I may have screwed up on cost.

13. It's one hundred twenty five (one hundred fifty minus twenty five) percent times fifteen megastarbux times seven tonnes.

14. 13.125 megastarbux.

15. 1.875 megastarbux for three tonnes.

16. 625'000 starbux per tonne opportunity cost.

 

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Starships: Engineering and Smallest Cheapest Possible Jump Drive

17. No, still making some basic mistakes, probably because it's been a long time since I've screwed around with the jump drive.

18. Three and a half tonne overhead would be 4.375 tonnes at a twenty five percent increase.

19. That leaves 2.625 tonnes left over.

20. 2.625 divided by 4.375 equals 0.6.

21. Sixty percent of two hundred parsec tonnes is one hundred twenty tonnes.

 

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Starwarships: Battlestar Galactica: Colonial Raptor | Extended Breakdown

Hoojiwana is here for a detailed breakdown of Battlestar Galactica's venerable Colonial Raptor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpGfXBHU8n8


1. A little small for a hundred tonne scout.

2. As I recall, you could probably squeeze in a performance of factor three jump drive, and factor three manoeuvre drive.

3. You could default to a three missile launcher turret.

4. Ventral docking sleeve.

5. Dual cockpit; couldn't say with confidence if astrogation is possible.

6. Surveyor.

7. I really have to calculate if ten diameter jumps are viable.

8. I'm pretty sure an internal hangar jump isn't possible.

9. Jammer and early warning.

 

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Starships: Accommodations, Low Berths, and I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.

I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y

Does not scale.

 

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Starwarships: Battlestar Galactica: Adamant Class Analysis

Checking out and analysing the Adamant Class frigate from Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock.

0:00 Intro
0:16 Overview
0:27 Appearance
1:10 Combat loadout
2:04 Role in fleets
3:45 Conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXC4RUx_omE


1. Speaking of hybrid cruiser carriers.

2. Jack of all Trades.

3. Wall of Death - I've stacked four high.

4. My operational style doesn't lend itself to one shot nuclear holocaust; personal experience inclines me towards the attritional brutality of fast dumb blon torpedoes.

5. Actually, succeeded by Artemisii; hard to go wrong with flak screen, heavy artillery and additional squadron, but if the game allowed unlimited number of ships per task force, pretty close to optimum bang for buck.

6. Despite lacking launch tubes, a case could be made for the early carrier method of launch by bunching up the aircraft at one end of the flight deck, and then just having them fly off as soon as the flight deck was clear, which is probably a lot faster than the six to eighteen minutes needed for docking space, and probably closer one every thirty seconds.

 

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Starwarships: Battlestar Galactica: Arachne Class Analysis

Back to Battlestar Galactica, this time for an examination and analysis of the Cylons Arachne Class cruiser.

0:00
0:18 Overview
0:53 Features
2:10 Use in fleets
3:16 Cylon or Colonial?
4:02 Conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odn-yhbx3_Y


1. Not too sure how side mounted hangars work during acceleration.

2. Improved Adamants.

3. Good thing they head straight for the battlestars.