[Spaceships] How should a large station... duck?

AlexanderHowl · 10-06-2019, 02:54 PM

A SM+34 object would mass around 10 quadrillion tons, as mentioned above, and could not really afford to dodge anything. We assume that it possesses counter rotating sections that allow it to change orientation, but it is simply too massive to maneuver rapidly enough to dodge anything that can maneuver. A dumb relativistic object could be avoided through changing rotation rates to allow slight repositioning, assuming they received a few months warning.

A SM+34 object should really be more than a million square kilometers, as that suggests a mass of 10,000 tons per square meter column. Atmosphere masses 11 tons per square meter at sea level, meaning that the rest of the mass would need to be something else. A kilometer of water masses 1,100 tons per square meter and a kilometer of soil masses around 2,750 tons per square meter. You would either need an excessively thick ecosystem or a larger object to account for the mass.

So, if we examined a SM+34 object, a single habitat section would have sixty trillion cabins, and would require 1 trillion workers. If we assume high automation, we could reduce that to 100 billion workers. We could easily support giving every individual the equivalent of six cabins (one luxury cabin with total life support, one office, and one steerage cargo) and have the equivalent of six cabins worth of other things per person, allowing us to support five trillion people per habitat section.

An SM+34 habitat would probably have six habitats, six open spaces, three steel armor, and fifteen smaller systems (cargo holds, control rooms, fuel tanks, hanger bays, power plants, weapon batteries, etc.). It could support up to 30 trillion humans and could require around 1.5 trillion personnel with high automation. It would have dDR 100,000 with steel armor, meaning that it could ignore most attacks without any worry. Its SM+33 tertiary VRF laser weapons would have an output of 300 PJ and would deal 3d×5,000 (2) damage each hit, allowing it to turn most relativistic projectiles into plasma moving 0.9c in the opposite direction.

10-06-2019, 02:54 PM	#6
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: [Spaceships] How should a large station... duck? A SM+34 object would mass around 10 quadrillion tons, as mentioned above, and could not really afford to dodge anything. We assume that it possesses counter rotating sections that allow it to change orientation, but it is simply too massive to maneuver rapidly enough to dodge anything that can maneuver. A dumb relativistic object could be avoided through changing rotation rates to allow slight repositioning, assuming they received a few months warning. A SM+34 object should really be more than a million square kilometers, as that suggests a mass of 10,000 tons per square meter column. Atmosphere masses 11 tons per square meter at sea level, meaning that the rest of the mass would need to be something else. A kilometer of water masses 1,100 tons per square meter and a kilometer of soil masses around 2,750 tons per square meter. You would either need an excessively thick ecosystem or a larger object to account for the mass. So, if we examined a SM+34 object, a single habitat section would have sixty trillion cabins, and would require 1 trillion workers. If we assume high automation, we could reduce that to 100 billion workers. We could easily support giving every individual the equivalent of six cabins (one luxury cabin with total life support, one office, and one steerage cargo) and have the equivalent of six cabins worth of other things per person, allowing us to support five trillion people per habitat section. An SM+34 habitat would probably have six habitats, six open spaces, three steel armor, and fifteen smaller systems (cargo holds, control rooms, fuel tanks, hanger bays, power plants, weapon batteries, etc.). It could support up to 30 trillion humans and could require around 1.5 trillion personnel with high automation. It would have dDR 100,000 with steel armor, meaning that it could ignore most attacks without any worry. Its SM+33 tertiary VRF laser weapons would have an output of 300 PJ and would deal 3d×5,000 (2) damage each hit, allowing it to turn most relativistic projectiles into plasma moving 0.9c in the opposite direction. Last edited by AlexanderHowl; 10-06-2019 at 03:02 PM.