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[Condottiere]

1. Decoy.

2. Emergency signal.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Because if the power goes out or the software glitches or the cameras are damaged you can still look out a window and see where you're going.

Except with no power, nothing else works either. Plus, you cannot see far enough ahead to avoid anything when your stopping distance equals your acceleration distance and that is measured in kilometers.

 

[Arkathan]

Except with no power, nothing else works either. Plus, you cannot see far enough ahead to avoid anything when your stopping distance equals your acceleration distance and that is measured in kilometers.

Kind of like an Aircraft Carrier. You hit something or someone goes overboard (and is observed), your rescue boats have a long way to go to get back to the scene of the accident.

 

[Condottiere]

Even if you're accelerating at factor/one.

I'd say automatic procedure would be immediate deceleration, if only on the off chance that you have more space to manoeuvre to respond to unexpected potential collision.

You can have a windscreen, and have it covered by a metal port when actual sight isn't required.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Kind of like an Aircraft Carrier. You hit something or someone goes overboard (and is observed), your rescue boats have a long way to go to get back to the scene of the accident.

Go old school. Put a guy on the hull in a vacc suit calling out fathoms. lolz

 

[Arkathan]

Go old school. Put a guy on the hull in a vacc suit calling out fathoms. lolz

Old school. I used to have a wristwatch that chimed the bells, Navy style, every 15 minutes. Great for hitting logs...
Not because I was gung-ho, but because it was really convenient.

 

[Condottiere]

1. Crow's nest.

2. Keelhauling.

 

[MasterGwydion]

1. Crow's nest.

2. Keelhauling.

Dammit! Now I want to keelhaul someone in a Vacc Suit. I wonder if they would survive a jump strapped to the hull. lolz

 

[Condottiere]

 

[WHULorigan]

And thus the "Head" is at the head of the ship, and not the aft where the wind can blow it into the Captain's Cabin . . .

(Of course, that's a major fail on the part of the Coxs'n ↑ )

 

[Condottiere]

That could be the blowhole.