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Answered in Heavy Metal (1981)
My new pc mouse pointer. Installed 3 new taskbars, and my frame rate is now 2 between popups
I hope this is AI, because that turbolaser configuration is shyte. A whopping three batteries can fire at the rear, and the broadside arrays have like <45 degree arcs of fire with all the overlapping emplacements.
My junior high scribbles were more thought out.
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As a young naval officer, I was taught that if I was unable to do my job while drunk, I was unable to do my job.
Is this AI? I don’t recognize this type of star destroyer. It doesn’t have a bridge so that rules out the full-sized imperial-class or the smaller victory-class. The Reaurgent-class doesn’t have a bridge, but the shape doesn’t look right…
I’ve played Elite Dangerous and X3/X4 drunk many times. It was fun.
Takes out a family imperial megaship. Judge: suspended license and 120 days community service.
Imagine? Bish im driving it right meow and i am not sober
I mean, you would most definitely need an entire crew to pilot a spacecraft of that size, so it really wouldn’t be drunk driving unless you all were hammered. In which case, probably wouldn’t get very far before some sub-system shorted out in a massive way
If the impaired person is high rank enough and nobody questions them, it’s enough for one person to be impaired for the whole ship to go off course.
They have gravity generators and inertia dampeners. There’s a whole lot of space in space. Go crazy.
The only thing dramatic about flying in a Sci-Fi space ship is the music and camera angles.
I love the space battles in the early Expanse books. They are essentially
There’s a ship visible several thousand kilometers away…
Shit, they’ve armed weapons
Firing countermeasures
They will pass in 30 seconds at an appreciable fraction of C
BRAAAAAAAAP
battle over
Ship-to-ship combat is like that in the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. Hours or days of waiting and preparing, trying to get in the enemy’s head to guess what they’ll do, and coordinating the fire and last minute acceleration/maneuvers of your fleet, then the automatic programs carry out those orders and you see who died. It’s really well done.
There’s a sequence in a Larry Niven book where a ship sees some missiles inbound from across a solar system. In order to avoid them, they have to spend several hours at high-G thrust, nearly killing a bunch of the crew. It’s a long, slow chapter of high tension, it obeys the laws of physics, and it’s excellent.
I’m a fan and collector, but that doesn’t sound familiar from the portion of my collection that I’ve read through. Do you recall anything else?
I’m pretty sure it’s either The Mote in God’s Eye or The Gripping Hand.
Edit: Checked, and it’s most of the last couple of chapters of The Gripping Hand. I fudged some of the details from not having read it in a long time, but the basics are there; spaceships jockeying for strategic advantage across an entire solar system, balancing fuel and orbits, and crews doing their best to withstand painful acceleration.
I have 56 books of his (a few are duplicates in other editions), including those two. I read Mote ages ago, bit don’t remember it. Reordering my TBR pile!
It’s only a problem with star wars-logic aseroid fields
It’s more concerning when someone with the force gets drunk and starts moving stuff randomly 'cause it’s funny.
or this
Wonder if it can reverse parallel park?
