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SLOWER THAN LIGHT

added new section Starship Bumpers

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Fast--Starship_Bumpers


added to Relativity a note about Functional Lightspeed

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#functionallightspeed


ADVANCED DESIGN


added to Type: Orbit-to-Orbit the nuclear spacecraft from Breaking Strain

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php#breakingstrain


INTERSTELLAR TRADE AND PIRACY


added new section Megacorporations

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellartrade.php#id--Megacorporations


ASTROMILITARY


added to Force Size a quote from the Eldraeverse

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astromilitary.php#eldraeforcesize


added to Force Management a quote from the Eldraeverse

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astromilitary.php#eldraeforcemanagement


ANTIGRAVITY


added to First Men in the Moon a quote from said novel, and a few more pictures

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--First_Men_in_the_Moon


added a quote from Arthur C. Clarkes' What Goes Up

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--What_Goes_Up


added section Perry Rhodan

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--Perry_Rhodan


added section Ironwolf

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--Ironwolf


added section Space 1889

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--Space:_1889


added section Four-Day Planet

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--Four-Day_Planet


added section The Secret of the Ninth Planet

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--The_Secret_of_the_Ninth_Planet


added section Larry Niven

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Antigravity--Larry_Niven


added section The Songs of Distant Earth

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#id--Paragravity--The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth


RADIATION


added new section Radiator Shielding

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/radiation.php#id--Radiation_Shielding--Shielding--Shadow_Shield--Radiator_Shielding


LANDING


added new section Rocket Landing

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/landing.php#id--Rocket_Landing


added to Recovering From A Topple a quote from Space Cadet

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/landing.php#id--Recovering_from_a_Topple


added new section Shipwrecks and Castaways

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/landing.php#id--Shipwrecks_And_Castaways


LIFE SUPPORT


added to Insect Protein a quote Don't Use Crickets

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/lifesupport.php#insect


SPACEPORTS


added to Star-Town a quote from the Eldraeverse

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spaceport.php#thingstosee


FUTURE HISTORY


added to The Sword in the Starship notes on how to use swords instead of guns in plotting your SF novel

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/futurehistory.php#id--The_Sword_on_the_Starship


GROUND CARS AND FLITTERS


added new section Flycycles

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/flitters.php#id--Flitters--Flycycles


added new section Flying Sled

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/flitters.php#id--Flitters--Flying_Sled

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Comments

Ah, well, I was confused. In "A Relic of the Empire", gyros were not mentioned. But they were in "Grendel". In "A Relic of the Empire", the pirate ship is hovering and torches the base of the stage trees. In "Grendel" Luis rams the bad guy's ship, it lands, but the bad guy didn't notice that only two of the three landing legs deployed. As they return to the ship both he and Luis hear the gyro whining in overload. When the bearing seize, the gyro causes the ship to do cartwheels across the landscape.

Nyrath

Ummmmm, are you sure you are not conflating "A Relic of Empire" with "Grendel?"

Nyrath

I like how you put Megacorporations under Pirates. :-) As for the "recovering from a topple" section, I'm reminded of the fate of the Jinxian pirate ship that was damaged by "green" stage tree logs used for a fire. It was in Niven's story "A Relic of Empire". It was a sad fate for the ship as its gyros tried to keep it upright...

John


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