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cacambo43 wrote:I don't see why, given sufficient networking and display technology why you'd even need a bridge, per se.
If nothing else, it is a confirmed feature of the setting. In as much as having physical people onboard is useful, having them in a place where they can interact with each other in an intuitive way is handy.
cacambo43 wrote:In any case, I'd read the hell out of this hypothetical spin-off/sequel comic, icekatze!
Heh, while that is much appreciated, I think it might be a bit premature to start thinking of an actual sequel before the original comic is finished.
novius wrote:On first glance, the gunports may look too big, but who knows what's behind it.
The way I envisioned it, the weapons would be the area where Terran technology might advance the slowest. Keeping up with a formation of allied ships would be necessary for joint operations. And if their job is to police systems that aren't supposed to have military ships at all, the same kind of lasers and mass drivers that they already have should suffice for policing cargo ships.
entity2636 wrote:This ship would be relying mostly on shields for defense and not expecting to get hit by kinetics? I notice large and flat surfaces at almost right angles to the main hull that make for excellent weak spots/shell traps, especially the conning and sensor towers...
The ship probably would not be expecting to get hit by kinetics, with 20g acceleration abilities. That being said, I don't think the concept of shell traps really applies at hyper-velocity/relativistic speeds. The projectiles are moving too fast for their atoms to be deflected out of the way before transferring energy to the structure. Also, we know that a mass driver round could seriously damage an Umiak heavy vessel, even with all their armor and curved surfaces.
Having a sensor tower extended away from the main hull gives it a better field of view around interference from the ship's own drive plume. Probably.
Sweforce wrote:I notice that the humans ship are still using fusion engines...
In my mind, the engines were reverse engineered from Umiak engines. (also blue.)