 November 14, 2007 - 7:52am | When looking at the ship schematics in the article it appears that the decks perpendicular to the engines, is that correct? "You don't get to call yourself an "Old school gamer" unless you've played D&D using paper chits and Dixie cups." Visit the Lair of the Evil DM |
 November 14, 2007 - 4:44pm | Yes. That's a Knight Hawks standard for most starships - especially all those with a hull size greater than 3. Hull Sizes less than 4 are able to enter atmospheres and fly around, and often are found with horizontal deck plans. There are exceptions to this rule (such as the Serena Dawn from the Alpha Dawn game book - which had horizontal deck plans). The claim is that the acceleration causes a gravity-like effect, so people can walk around on the decks during the gradual acceleration that takes up about half the duration of a trip, then the ship turns around and decelerates, causing the same gravitic effect. I don't know how scientific this is, but it works for the genre. 3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
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 November 14, 2007 - 5:26pm | Read up on Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion. It explains everything you wanted to know about space travel. |
 November 14, 2007 - 9:20pm | Read up on Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion. It explains everything you wanted to know about space travel. Can you give us the quick and dirty? 
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 November 15, 2007 - 5:56am | This was nabbed from wiki, but does a good job of explaining: |
