I’m imagining a Tomahawk or a Thrown Axe spinning perpendicular the axis of its Vector. In this configuration, the Pros are the smaller profile and the more robust structure along…
Read more →Length is 150meters Diameter of ring 76m 4 x 9,669 m^3 (700 ton each, 2800dton of fuel) Delta-V budget? Habitat Ring, spinning enclosed in structure. probably 11,000 metric tons or…
Read more →I watch a lot of Anton Petrov and I learned he’s been using Universe Sandbox 2 for explaining some of the science. So I discovered the Graystillplays video where he plays…
Read more →Basic spacer cybernetics and modification. 1) inner ear modification – for spin grav and free fall orientation, as well as inertia compass. 2) Second heart aka 0G heart – an…
Read more →1) hard sci-fi combat and problems are typically thinking outside the parameters “box” because someone’s already thought of it and it doesn’t work. Someone has to always think of a…
Read more →it’s really different listening to Legend of Galactic heroes translated novel vs the watching it – It got me thinking of how different I imagine my space combat. My harder…
Read more →The Advantage of HEX modules. This is a 5m Radius Hex Module with 3m Elevation (Vertical). When the Hex Triangles can be reconfigured to carry Hex Containers. There is a…
Read more →Near Earth Prospects Doing some TRPG musing – How do I run a 2050-2100 TRPG setting without a lot of prep and with believable world-building? For feedback. 0) The goal…
Read more →Visualizing a freighter carrying hundreds of tons of material cargo in 2200. It deposits its cargo by having the cargo drift out of its wake and get slowed up and…
Read more →Traveller Games in TL9 2050-2099 ike Delta-V where freelance Astronauts of various specializations are getting hired and trained for pioneer missions to catch asteroids, comets, and material to bring…
Read more →So from my background in Construction and manufacturing, as a Safety Officer, and Quality Management officer, as well as inspiration from Seveneves and Delta V I’ve come to the conclusion…
Read more →both EMU unit and Crew Suit PSD file. TL9 Crew Suit 2200 PSD FILE Changed the Shadows Layer into an OVERLAY layer. I used the Overlay property on the layer…
Read more →Photoshop file (gimp compatible) for TL9 Crew Vacc Suit Traced with a lot of liberties from Albin Merle’s 3d Rendering of the Advanced Crew Escape Suit (which should give you…
Read more →I realize that anyone can tinker with this, and change the “Controlling Stat” depending on the “Culture” of the Entity/Institution. Someone can just change the INT to a CON and…
Read more →I was really distracted wanting to know what the layout would be if the ship was blended wing and if it was a hex tube. I got influenced by “The…
Read more →Having a chance to Sleep on it, it being the Spreadsheet for CE ship building. The great thing about SRDs is that fixing loose ends are easier without the distraction…
Read more →Expectations going in: GMs learning to use Blender enough to make one’s own ships and scenes. Allowing GMs to Model ships and basic “3d Modeling” to have a usable skill. …
Read more →I have a guess that spaceships sensors and beam attacks would be slugging it out at ranges where we only see as grainy videos. That beam weapons would be targeted…
Read more →I did some of the calculations and initial research and here’s what I got. Step 1: Hull, Costs and Tons tables. I also made a formula for it. Basically its…
Read more →Draft of the Traveller Character Sheet I made. Its meant to be folded as a Booklet (spine on the left side). Inside is the basic rules. Progress: Pretty much need…
Read more →Common features in Star Systems that have a built up Defense. This is in settings with no FTL communications and no “stealth in space“ Underground Vaults. IMTU giant worms or…
Read more →Bouncing ideas off +Nick de Vera when I learned this term. For lack of imagination I will move the panspermia IMTU back to early biologicals instead of “human” transplantation. So…
Read more →One of the things I’ve mused is what I would need, as a non-programmer, to run a hard sci-fi setting. One big barrier to Sci-fi is the data dump of…
Read more →I had a terrible time finding this word: Pantropy and of all the search I did I could always rely on Atomic Rockets to have exactly what I needed. So…
Read more →reading up on traveller got me thinking: 1) a system for preparation and training lacking in the game system is strange. If they have 168 hours on the ship per…
Read more →Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store and the app available has worn my patience) I’ve almost…
Read more →So it can’t go interstellar, and I admit it was painful at first to conceptualize a doctrine without reactionless drives BUT Iearned to love it after some inspiration… and it…
Read more →It deserves its glowing review and ratings. It simplifies a lot of work when creating ships in GURPS. I have one big problem tho, its that you have to still…
Read more →So I’m trying to get used to the idea of Hands as feet in a transhuman setting. There is a practicality to gravity, even just micro-gravity in habitats. 3d perception…
Read more →I tried to model Moore’s Law and computing power over time, and wow those assumptions of data processing are pretty exponential. Note that Moore’s Law is made up of two…
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