Torchships - Atomic Rockets
Added 2015-02-13 23:27:45 +0000 UTCTORCHSHIPS tremendously expanded Dr. Luke Campbell's section on Torchship blade shields http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php#id--Torch_Drive_Heat--Magnetic_Nozzles CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS added to Laser Cannon Optics a quote by Isaac Kuo about armoring laser optics http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php#id--Laser_Cannon--Optics added to Particle Beams Electrostatics two quotes by Isaac Kuo about using planetary magnetic fields to give particle beam weapons stupendous range http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php#id--Particle_Beams--Electrostatics,_Neutrons,_and_Space_Charge added to Kinetic Kill Weapons Effects a discussion about the effects of increasing the velocity of a rail gun round http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php#ravioli SPACE WAR WEAPONS INTRO added a new section about Engagement Zones http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunintro.php#id--Engagement_Envelopes SPACE WAR DEFENSES added to Introduction a quote from Alistair Young about spacecraft defenses http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardefense.php#id--Introduction added to Armor a large quote from Isaac Kuo about armoring laser cannon optics http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardefense.php#id--Armor SPACE WAR DETECTION added to Introduction a quote from Alistair Young about detection and information warfare http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect.php#id--Introduction INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE added to Introduction my crude mathematical analysis of Empire and Rebellion http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarempire.php#id--Introduction REALISTIC DESIGNS added some images I created of the Michael Battleship http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php#winchellmichael added data block to Orion Battleship added images from Scott Lowther to Orion Battleship added images from Me to Orion Battleship http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship SURFACE TO ORBIT added to Existing Heavy Launch Vehicles links to Wikipedia entries for each booster, and added entries for SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/surfaceorbit.php#id--Boosters:_Present_and_Proposed--Existing_Heavy_Lift_Launch_Vehicles added to Lofstrom Loop a quote from Robert L. Forward http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/surfaceorbit.php#id--Lofstrom_loop added new section Space Fountain http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/surfaceorbit.php#id--Space_Fountain INTERSTELLAR TRADE added to Goods a quote from Alistair Young http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellartrade.php#drinkingproblem
Comments
Ouch! That would be hot! But it is good that FTL:2448 did things right. I remember in 1982 when I got my first edition of FTL:2448, I was very impressed that it had a reasonably accurate 3D star map. There were only about four games that had that.
Nyrath
2015-02-14 01:55:06 +0000 UTCI remember when we were working on a revamping of FTL:2448, coming to the realization that multiple drive cones on ships is not viable. (At least with the pusher design) We worked out that our torch drives would get hot enough to melt the other drive cones, and that to prevent that, you'd have to put in tungsten shields between the fusion points and then actively cool the the shields as they were getting heated from two sides at once. Of course we forgot about the X-Rays, so that a flat tungsten shield wouldn't work very well. So the only solution, besides using a tractor/puller design, is to put them far enough apart that the heat and radiation is only a quarter of the intensity. That made long narrow ships, very wide at the drive section. And since each drive had to have a separate drive shield, a lot more heavier. Just imagine how much heat there is at the rear end of Darth Vader's Executor...
John
2015-02-14 00:11:53 +0000 UTC
