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Published: 2016-05-30 07:49:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 39455; Favourites: 1103; Downloads: 574
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A quick illustration, the lines of which were done on a 3"x5" notecard. This is part of a long-overdue effort to be less terrible at rendering background environments.While the Cirrus' functional rooms (bridge, crew quarters, galley, workrooms etc.) are kept in a gravitated state, the small ship's various connecting halls, corridors and maintenance compartments are generally left in microgravity. When the ship is in deep space, this allows for rapid transit throughout the vessel once one has found their space legs.
Reina; Novus Imperium; artwork ©
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Is this where and/or when she had to cut most her hair off because she got stuck in a airlock?
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this instead of zero gravity in deep stace? What the heck, do they use espining habitats or something
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Microgravity and zero-gravity are functionally the same thing. Microgravity is just the more technical term, since even in deep space there are gravitational influences on all sides. Those influences are just so weak as to be effectively imperceptible.
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Sorry, im not use on technical terms, whatever <3
Still, the influenes would pull everything, eventually towards the center of mass o
That chestplate looks soooo Mjolnir Mk. V, and I love it. Mooooar
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microgravity and not zero-gravity, nice. this is why I love your stuff, you research informations and try to put your sci fi fantasy as close as possible to realism! you think about the "could this actually work in reality?" and not just mash metal pieces together, that look good. even for such minor details as the deffinition of gravitation, awesome!
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Hmmm... I take it this a short corridor. I like the concept where in the Gundam universe ship corridors have these transit handles constantly moving along a track. I don't know how well such a mechanism would work but combined with the handle bars I feel that would make getting around a ship that much faster (especially for a military vessel where crewmen need to get to their stations fast). I like the serenity in the scene.
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It strikes me as a bit of a pain maintenance-wise. Better, I think, to have just one long handrail (or sequence of handrails) running along the corridor. (I'm taking a stab at writing hard sci-fi, so I had to research stuff like this.)
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And don't forget the amount of handles on the outside of the ship. Even the usage of thrusters close to the delicate surfice can be an issue. So just pulling around the ship is a good solution. Especially since there is no medium outside to stop ones movement. I actually think docking manouvers in Kerbal Space Program are relatively close to close range movement in space.
I'm actually surprised how many writers don't get space combat right. Instead of flying like a jet one would use thrusters on all sides and could even turn around facing a following opponent. Surprisingly Babylon 5 and the new Galactica series use that while being not too hard sci-fi overall.)
And it is basically a fight of thermal management. Destroying enemy radiators and trying to pump as much heat into them as possible to cook the crew inside while trying to keep the own thermals in check.
Projectile weapons (like railguns) to rip holes into radiators and something like microwave guns or lasers to heat up the targeted surface on the enemy ship.
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In my own sci-fi worldbuilding work, one option is to retract your radiators entirely and rely on internal heatsinks and passive radiation from the hull. Makes you much less vulnerable to enemy projectiles, but puts a hard limit on the length of the engagement before you have to reextend them.
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Hi....like your artwork on Microgravity...nice ideas well done / Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS UK .
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Might be efficient, but safe? If someone is transiting when there is a sudden course correction, there's gonna be trouble.
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The ship has an internal inertial-damping system to prevent that sort of thing from happening, regardless of whether someone is in a gravitated or microgravity area. You might get jostled a bit, but it would be unlikely to cause any serious injury.
If a change in the ship's momentum is forceful enough to injure someone in a microgravity zone, then it's going to be forceful enough to injure people in the gravitated zones as well.
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As long as there are grab bars, like those seen in the picture, there shouldn't be any issues. In the event of an emergency course correction the bridge would alert any and all personnel to the correction prior to said course change, thus enabling any personnel in any of the micro-gravity areas to attach to the emergency grab bars.
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Might work if they have a few moments lead-time... but split-second corrections are a different story.
And just attaching to the bars isn't enough to protect you. In fact there looked like a lot of spots where you could get knocked out pretty well as your head bounced off of...
A: The bars
B: The walls
C: Anyone potentially in the same hallway as you.
D: Doorways
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One word: Training. All personnel would have extensive training for ships like this. Beside, micro-gravity doesn't mean no gravity, just minimal gravity.
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Well, you're mostly right. The ex-military members of the Cirrus' crew would have undergone training. The couple of civilians on the crew would have had to learn through experience.
Microgravity is just the technical term for what's usually called "zero-g." It refers to the fact that even in deep space, there are still numerous gravitational influences on all sides. Those influences are so weak however that they're effectively imperceptible. I went with "microgravity" because it's technically the more accurate term, but in the context of a person within a spacecraft, a complete lack gravity/weight is what it would feel like.
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That's actually a really great idea, it saves on power and heat expenditure and is generally more efficient all around.
I hope you don't mind if I employ a similar idea in my own story?
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And I would imagine that it would save power as well by not having grav in them.
Thank you for sharing.
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Space legs, eh? That's a pretty cool concept.
Loving the detail and depth of the corridor as well. ^^
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