View Single Post
Old 01-28-2019, 08:19 AM   #45
Icelander
 
Icelander's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
Default Re: Alternate-World-Exploring Zeppelin

Quote:
Originally Posted by johndallman View Post
They certainly are. There would have been no motive to make them light in their original uses. You can take most of the high-precision parts, along with the plans, but you're going to need to set up iron and steel production on an industrial scale to get those machine tools back in action.
Then that's yet another good reason why the first generation of the Antarctic Space Nazis mostly exploited the worlds they'd already discovered and for all their willingness were unable to mount proper military scouting expeditions to new worlds until they had a bigger population base and more advanced slave industry.

Quote:
Originally Posted by johndallman View Post
Airships moving at low speed are extremely sensitive to gusts of wind. What happens if one of those causes a zeppelin to hit the side of one of these games?
Well, nothing supernatural. But if the zeppelin has started moving through the gate, it won't be able to move sideways further than the gate allows, so I should imagine anything from an unpleasant jolt to the frame being ripped apart, depending on the power of the gust.
__________________
Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela!
Icelander is offline   Reply With Quote