Mongoose Traveller Google Appscript Ship Builder
Here’s a concise, blog-friendly write-up of where you are with the Mongoose Traveller 2E macro, how folks can use it today, and what’s still on your to-do list. Feel free…
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Harnessing the Fury: Radiation Belts as the Stellar Hammer of the Future
Deep in the swirling cosmic ballet, our sun constantly hurls charged particles into space as solar wind. Most of these high‐energy electrons and protons are lost to the void—except where…
Read more →the Space Shuttle
Perfect because I’m supposed to make the stats of this for Cepheus Engine.
Read more →Scale and Science – Project Sundial and
Project Sundial is another illustration of the sense of scale of energy that one has to get right with science. That economic size, population and demographic shifts, and energy densities…
Read more →Research – Simplified Rockets
I’m working on developing a Cepheus Engine Ship Generator spreadsheet that will handle all the calculations necessary for ship design and performance assessment. Here are the main challenges I’m tackling:…
Read more →0G manufacturing – the race for the moon
fueled by Hypersonic Arms race – to Counter Hypersonic threats you need Space Superiority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point_colonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_manufacturing The idea that microgravity (or near-zero gravity) environments could play a significant role in…
Read more →Not enough about Jupiter
The Moon and Beyond: Humanity’s Next Steps in the Solar System Watching Anthrofuturism has deepened my understanding of the Moon’s crucial role in humanity’s expansion into space. The Moon is…
Read more →Rethinking Spacecraft Design in Mneme: A Mass-Based Approach
The concept of space travel in many sci-fi systems often hinges on the arbitrary measurement of “displacement tons” (dtons), which originate from an era when ships were designed with Earth’s…
Read more →2 Parsecs from Sol
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/434085/2-parsecs-from-sol An adventure set in Alpha Centauri A, B and Proxima Centauri, Luhman 16 A and B, and Barnard Star.Several Adventures This is a Pay-What-you-Want adventure for Cepheus Engine. note…
Read more →Mneme Space Combat EBook Only
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/493485/mneme-space-combat-ebook-only All the PNG Tokens JPG DECKPLANS and of course the EBOOK, since people asked for a version without the sample watermark. Link to the CE Ship Builder Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17t5xZOQOCtMiLJVO2O3mOsIu5WabLz44XrmsCP7HVac/edit?gid=1964247883#gid=1964247883…
Read more →Mneme Research: What the rotation Speeds actually Look like
SPIN CALC spreadsheet – calcultes degress per frame this uses blender 4.0 with 60fps 1920×1080 camera. Uploaded the new files and the files that contain the render settings if you…
Read more →Companion AI in Scifi
I can imagine settings where digital companies for mental health would be a right. An external memory of who we are – to better process the context of ourselves. as…
Read more →Mechwarrior Anachronisms and considerations
Notes after a lot of MWO with my team. Mechs wouldn’t have exposed cockpits, it would be like a modern-day tank or even better built into the helmets of…
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2022-01-20
Sci-fi
How do maps work in Player Decision making and immersion?
My problem of running a Hard Scifi Game is how to make the solar system relevant without overloading the Players. I don’t want the players have to figure things out…
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2022-01-19
Sci-fi
Slow but Sure: Stellar Classification Table
Ok that was a lot of work. Yeah creating tables for Stellar Classification. Roll the Star up. I made a mistake, I wasn’t supposed to allow for O type since it’s…
Read more →Trade off: Mneme Definitions has to be simple enough for me
Sadly I cannot simplify enough that its accurate to how professional scientists can use it, while being something I can follow. Reminds me of trying to understand Accounting during our…
Read more →Slowly learning – Simple Rockets and how it relates to Traveller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity Q: If the earth requires 11KMs Escape velocity, when I achieve it at 11.1KMs 𝚫V does that mean I have the remaining 0.1KMs to travel? “Once escape velocity is…
Read more →Rockets and pushing my limits
All the tools that go to delta-v to be easier goes to designer notes. Sure write the simple parts down in the mechanics but then in practice, the players being…
Read more →Baseline Performance – the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs.
The Saturn-V is a great sample rocket. Its performance and Stats are readily available and its a great baseline since we want our performance to be compared against this Iconic…
Read more →Efficiency Curve – I have to make a Chart on the Efficiency Curves.
So the Thrust to Weight Ratio determines an Efficiency Curve for the Mass Ratio (Fuel to total Mass of the Ship). The weaker the engine the smaller the total amount…
Read more →Today I learned more about Thrust to Weight Ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-to-weight_ratio I had to Study the Basics of Thrust to Weight. Sorry I’m juggling a lot, but DO KNOW you can correct me because if you decide to Invest…
Read more →Today I learned about some basics the Stats of Rockets
0G Manufacturing is Nano-Technology https://rootsofprogress.org/where-is-my-flying-car 0G manufacturing is ASSEMBLING and FORMING material before Gravity distorts the structure that will be set or cured. Now imagine manufacturing on Orbiting on…
Read more →Reflecting on Venus and Mars Terraforming: Space Elevators are Yggdrasil and Mirror Swarms its Leaves and Biome.
I prefer the Idea of Cloud Habitats and a few hundred Habitats orbiting in its thermosphere with Tethers and Electromagnetic funnels drawing gasses as for reaction mass and fuel in…
Read more →TL9.0 to TL9.2 Modularization Manufacturing
Taylorism and Scientific Manufacturing is in TL5 While FORD and his improvements in the Assembly Line is in TL6 Quality Management: Deming, TPS, Lean is TL7 Early CNC machines are…
Read more →Universal Sandbox Usage Terms are pretty easy to follow
http://universesandbox.com/usage/ If others are considering using Universe Sandbox to detail their Worldbuilding (game material). Hope to make hard SciFi more accessible and a lot of illustrations. I tend to run…
Read more →Sleep-pod and Freshers – Solving the Orientation Problem
Sleep pods and Freshers can be pretty much the same thing. 1) redundant life support – cabin fails the sleep pod and fresher 2) sonic and water systems for cleaning.…
Read more →Scifi Inspiration – Astrum and detailing Operations
Currently my Game inspiration Every planet in our solar system requires 30-100km/s of 𝚫V months to arrive (A rocket usually has 9.6km/s 𝚫V budget of energy ) from its nearest point…
Read more →7 Kilo Ton Ship used to Traveling between the Moons of Jupiter.
Trying a smaller ship for a change. I’m using “dumb math” ratios and benchmarking against the spaceX ITS as I figure out how to calculate deltaV. 1:5 methane to LO2…
Read more →234 Kiloton Ton Freighter
This is a 234 KT freighter. A ton is either one Cubic Meter which is equal to 1 Ton/ 1000kg of Water or 1000kg of Mass. Measuring the Volume of…
Read more →Habitat Mechanics in TL9.0 to TL9.9 Ship Building
3 sets of Habitats for Ships 15m radius Habitat – it takes 1 to 1 to recover. This means the same amount of time in this habitat to recover…
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