Four Spaceships
Added 2024-03-24 19:17:30 +0000 UTC
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Ironically, I think the Enterprise is going to look more like the Discovery from 2001. Long, narrow spine between the engines and fuel tanks at the rear and the inhabited regions at the front. Although with a large ring habitat for spin gravity instead of a sphere at the front.
Jon F. Zeigler
2024-03-25 20:40:57 +0000 UTCI notice that you don't go into the aesthetics of these ships. I'm curious how you envision these ships, especially Enterprise.
Stephen Rider
2024-03-25 15:31:52 +0000 UTCHeh. Yes, that always bothered me too, especially back when I was writing the world-design sections of GURPS Space. The Human Destiny sourcebook, assuming it ever gets published, is going to be exclusively in metric.
Jon F. Zeigler
2024-03-25 14:42:54 +0000 UTC“You’ll notice I’m already converting certain measurements to the metric system”: not gonna lie, the IMO extremely weird fixation with American units put me off GURPS for years—to the extent that whenever I contemplated using the vehicle or spaceship rules I was so annoyed that I just went back to my trusty (if flawed) Traveller FF&S...
Thanasis Kinias
2024-03-25 13:45:58 +0000 UTC
