01-15-2018, 02:21 PM | #1 |
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propulsion system for star wars speeders?
I just realized that I don't know what Spaceships propulsion system would appropriately model the various types of Star Wars speeders - snowspeeders, speeder bikes etc. I remember from somewhere that they use Contragravity Lifters to float but I have no idea what actually propels them. Any thoughts on the closest existing Spaceships system or what a new one would look like?
Continuing along that line, I'm assuming that anything from Star Wars would be using the TL12 version of the drive - what stops do you hit as you work your way down to, hmm, TL8 hovercraft? Thanks! |
01-15-2018, 02:25 PM | #2 |
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Re: propulsion system for star wars speeders?
Star Wars is a bit of a technological puzzle. They have TL10 medical technology and computing (without nanotech) and TL11^ spacecraft. Their android technology is actually quite primitive, probably TL9, as they depend on human labor for tasks that require delicacy.
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01-15-2018, 02:30 PM | #3 |
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Re: propulsion system for star wars speeders?
Luke's speeder and the pod racers are apparently propelled by jet turbines.
If you can tolerate contragravity, you can probably tolerate "angling" the lift to provide motive power along the surface, not just force away from it; you could also call that a reactionless thruster. |
01-15-2018, 02:50 PM | #4 | |
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01-15-2018, 08:28 PM | #5 | |
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I think the forward propulsion engine tends to be "ion" but the Star Wars "ion engine" is mostly a Spaceship cold reactionless drive. That's what the Falcon and all the other spaceships use. The pod racers too. I also set Star Wars at TL11^ but generally not 12.
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01-15-2018, 08:34 PM | #6 | |
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01-15-2018, 09:18 PM | #7 |
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Re: propulsion system for star wars speeders?
Star Wars engines may be reactionless, but they still use fuel for something.
Gravity doesn't work like ours either, based on the destruction of the Invisible Hand and use of iron bombs in space combat. |
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...Trying to fit a Star Wars -shaped peg into a hard science fiction shaped hole is just never going to work. What's the propulsion system of a land speeder? It's whoosh. An X-Wing? A bigger whoosh.
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01-16-2018, 02:49 AM | #9 | |
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I think most of the ones we see look clumsy because they're not intended for fine work. C3P0, for example, is a protocol and translator droid, so he doesn't need very good co-ordination or fast physical reflexes. What Star Wars droids are, by and large, is cheaply made.
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01-16-2018, 02:53 AM | #10 | |
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I do not have an excuse for the lack of 'safe until dropped' fuses of the sort in use since WWII in bombs and earlier in shells.
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