11-04-2014, 09:11 PM | #21 |
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Re: (IW) Details of Lucifer-5
Are astronium and petrinium what we call uranium and plutonium in OTL/Homeline's world line?
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11-05-2014, 05:41 AM | #22 | |
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Re: (IW) Details of Lucifer-5
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11-05-2014, 05:43 AM | #23 |
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Re: (IW) Details of Lucifer-5
By the by, the Pyramid article on the Dungeons of Mars would be useful. After all, stealing ancient secrets from lost tombs is the kind of pulp adventure you'd want on Lucifer-5.
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11-05-2014, 07:23 AM | #24 | |
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Re: (IW) Details of Lucifer-5
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Uranium was known to mundane science well before 1908. Even its' radioactive properties were known by 1895 or so.
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11-11-2014, 08:21 AM | #25 |
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Re: (IW) Details of Lucifer-5
Sorry to be so late getting back to this but life happens.
This is my first attempt at a basic transport rocketship for Lucifer-5. It's SM-8 and that's mostly because of trying to account for armor and crew cabins. It's made out of steel, steel and more steel and is dDR9. That's enough to stop the effects of colliding with a grain of dust (with "grain" meaning 1/7000th of a lb) at an average turnover velocity on the Mars run. The ship also probably tries to avoid most dust by flying above or below the plane of the Ecliptic. Because there is almost no automation possible at this TL I'm setting minimum normal crew at 6. That's one watchstander for the bridge and the engine room with 3 shifts. 4 cabins are allotted for the crew at double occupancy with 1 fir a single bed Infirrnary and another for a small Astronomy lab that will be largely concerned with the difficult subject of navigation at this TL. The extra beds can go for a medic and a cargo master or purser or steward or some such person. There are 6 cabins allotted for passengers. Most trips will be under a week with 2 days or less being common. The drive is Hot Reactionless because the IW book describes there things as "torch ships" which means to me both "accelerates at a constant 1G or higher" and "fire comes out the back end". If somebody really doesn't like reactionless drives the only option would be Total Conversion. Constant 1G takes more than 500 miles per second of Delta-V per day. TL6^ Rocket Ship Front 1.Steel armor 2.Steel armor 3.Steel armor 4. Control Room 5. Habitat 6 rooms 6. Habitat 6 rooms (Core) Infirmary Center 1.Steel armor 2.Steel armor 4.Steel armor 5. Cargo 50 tons 6. Cargo 50 tons (Core) Engine Room Rear 1.Steel armor 2.Steel armor 3.Steel armor 4. TL^ Exotic Power plant, 3PPs 5. TL10 Hot Reactionless thruster, 1G 6. TL10 Hot Reactionless thruster, 1G ST/HP:70 dDR 9 2Gs max 12 canons 100 tons cargo.
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