08-28-2015, 08:46 AM | #71 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
If you're storing the heat in some form of chemical store (such as fuel tanks), you can dump the chemical store. Depending on the nature of your coolant, you might also let it boil away, which will usually only use up some of your coolant.
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08-28-2015, 09:06 AM | #72 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
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Actually, it does. Page 66. Time with radiators open clears accumulated overheat on a 1-for-1 basis. Whether or not you're still running the hot systems.
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08-28-2015, 09:17 AM | #73 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
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That'd require some fairly heavy reconsideration of Spaceships, though, and doesn't seem to be what you're trying to do. If you're deciding that the ships do still emit the amount of heat they should be, into normal space, just somehow doing so without anything recognizable as a radiator...which is what Spaceships defaults to, really...I'd agree that having it act like it can retract its mysteriously non-existent radiator for a low-profile mode makes perfect sense. Optionally, you could make that capability a design option that costs extra, and/or make it a feature only of ships with a Stealth Hull.
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08-28-2015, 10:05 AM | #74 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
You have some sort of superscience technology that can pump out large amounts of heat without any sort of radiator, or at least not a large one. Saying it can actually manage several orders of magnitude more heat than it usually pumps out isn't going to break anything. Failing that, use the same technology to actually build some radiators, and you should be able to dump all that heat rather rapidly. It could have a cool visual effect - the ship momentarily unfurls some hidden radiators, there's a sudden IR spike, and the radiators retract again.
As Anthony notes, actually expelling coolant (or using some way to expel all the heat with a portion of the coolant, either through boiling or through using a heat pump to make what you're expelling super-extra-hot first) is another option. This will give you a limited number of uses of stealth. Quote:
Ah, so it does. |
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08-28-2015, 10:17 AM | #75 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Something like David Brin's refrigeration laser might be tempting - if you know where the enemy is, you can send off your surplus heat in a big coherent beam away from them.
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08-28-2015, 10:47 AM | #76 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Sadly, it violates thermodynamics, and if you're going to violate the second law of thermodynamics you might as well just declare you have a device that turns waste heat into useful power, meaning you don't have any heat you need to get rid of in the first place.
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08-28-2015, 01:07 PM | #77 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull
Sure, but it does it in a relatively subtle way.
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