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12-29-2016, 03:03 PM | #12 |
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I have the FASA Star Trek RPG and the supplement on building spaceships deals also with shuttles. The engines on the shuttles, according to FASA, are miniature versions of the engines on the starships. Thus, the shuttles can warp and fly normally in space just as a starship can. How does a starship maneuver? Whatever it is, the shuttle uses the same procedure, space atmosphere or whatever. The shuttles lift off from a landing pad using the same procedure regardless if the landing pad is on the ground or in a docking bay.
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My recollection about that episode is that the concerns were with lowering mass and having enough energy. I don't remember anything about reaction mass.
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12-29-2016, 03:57 PM | #16 |
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I assume ST impulse engines work like fusion powered rockets in the same way nuclear submarine turbines work like tea kettles.
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12-29-2016, 03:58 PM | #17 |
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The presence of fuel doesn't seem to imply reaction mass, necessarily.
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Everything 3rd edition and Ultra tech now sounds very dated. Some retro feeling is unavoidable, and I'd be fine just adjusting numbers to suit whatever the present becomes, but using all sorts of made up units like Power Points in Spaceships avoids that particular problem all together. Of course it leads to other issues like writers having to unconsciously or consciously use some kind of relationship to reality and therefore disagreement between products when someone does the math. Spaceships has Solar Plants producing over 100 times the power they could, and some others at least 10 times.
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Fusion power is where your energy comes from but not necessarily where your exhaust mass does. The default Gurps fusion drive uses nuclear fusion for power but stored hydrogen for reaction mass. Or it could use water, ammonia, etc. for differing thrusts and delta velocities.
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One could, grasping at straws here, conclude that phasers gave the required energy for the start up like how one may need to jump a car battery even though it mainly runs on gas. Or again, sci fi writers not really getting or caring about massive differences in scales. Tiny pew pew vs. monumental energy required for planetary lift off. They wanted intentional helplessness for the story conflict, so just kludged a nice technobabble reason.
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