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Well, okay I suppose you could do it that way. I was looking at the delivery end as being an orbital facility that just handled fuel. Two reasons come to mind. First, safety if a leak or fault should occur. Second, it changes the targeting for an orbital station in a conflict. Want to reduce the chance that the attacker says we are going to destroy the station (presumably this is a raid not an attempt to hold the system). You have two hours to evacuate.
But there are 10,000 people on this station it will take a minimum of four hours.
You have two hours. I suggest you get moving.
I run them like a truck stop. Truck stops are cool too, stop fuel up, use the can, maybe check out local baked goods in a case, get a coffee, take a break from driving. Often in the night, all lit up, different vehicles coming and going, the sound of the highway, people casual, the fellowship of the road.
"On river of red, a river of white; rivers of motion that run thru the night."
That line always comes to me when I'm making a long night drive. Decades after hearing those lyrics at a bar (1994?), I ended up living across the street from the guy who wrote that line in a song. I still can't believe that that one particular song of his never got recorded by some big name country music performer.
It is a good lyric. It is a weird bond between strangers, one is expected to be a stranger, and to look at the license plates on the cars lined up in front, all from different places.
Ambient music for a space convenience store (which I couldn't really visualize in MTU until now) -- thanks!
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Who?
Hivers?
Hivers?
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When I was young, I used to listen to complete anime sound tracks.
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I tend to try and figure out Solomani Confederation Navy doctrine.
Torpedoing an orbital facility during a raid is easy, and you can calculate time to target from one hundred diameters, depending on acceleration of the torpedoes selected.
Point defence is a worthwhile investment.
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I know one meme is space truckers, but that would assume you have to sit at the controls and take an active part.
an interesting PDF for generating power via that tether that is a fuel scoop dippig into the gas giant:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980203952/downloads/19980203952.pdf
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980203952/downloads/19980203952.pdf
The fuel scoop bit is sci-fi. The power generation/thrust is simple electromechanics -- conductor passing through a magnetic field induces a current; push voltage against that current and it's a motor. Very cool.
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If this is like Apple's electromagnetic induction, it would be localized, but could be regarded as renewable.
You could link it to a manoeuvre drive with limited orbit, which would save money, as well.
You could link it to a manoeuvre drive with limited orbit, which would save money, as well.
I plan to use this for some unhoused dudes sitting on the floor in a corridor of the starport someday. Couldn't use it last campaign because one of my guys was an extremely gung-ho marine who would not have taken kindly to the implications... (Fun fact: one of the singers is Mike Pondsmith, author of Cyberpunk 2020.)
I'm on board with having a tiny "gas giant" on my desk to park my phone next to and recharge it.
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Tethered, so that it can't float away.
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I knew someone who worked with the first tether experiment.
It generated far more current than expected and overheated the cable which snapped at a spot with a small defect.
Lesson 1: This is a great way to generate power in orbit. (Except for all the space junk.)
Lesson 2: Small defects can have large consequences.
I tend to agree that a fleet of shuttles (scoop, fly, unload, repeat) would be the most robust system.
They could be automated if the computers could make the Difficult (10+) Pilot check.
Or they could be flown remotely by operators on the station. (Very low lag time at that distance)
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When I was in high school, I picked up either a collection of Amazing or Astonishing science fiction stories at a yard sale.
One obsession seemed to be about energy transmission, where spaceships were powered through transmitted energy.
For Traveller spacecraft, fusion reactors are surprisingly efficient, so I would think it's more a question of minimizing maintenance and operating costs.
One obsession seemed to be about energy transmission, where spaceships were powered through transmitted energy.
For Traveller spacecraft, fusion reactors are surprisingly efficient, so I would think it's more a question of minimizing maintenance and operating costs.
And I was expecting the title track (see below). The eponymous anthology was a fun read as well -- thanks for the memory!
Oh, the whole album is solid gold for Traveller inspiration. I've long considered putting Dawson's Christian in my campaign in some form.
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