2.2 will add the Beluga Liner, where is it's grav deck?

veryinky

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Elite universe has no artificial gravity; hence why stations spin and the imperial Majestic class Interdictor has a spinning crew section, to generate centripedal force to simulate gravity. Fine.

But does this mean that the passengers on the Orca and Beluga will just float about during their trips? There's no place for a spinning grav deck on either ship. The windows on the Orca and Beluga also seem to be designed as if they were for a gravity environment as they have obvious horizontal decks. Does this mean the Orca/Beluga are built for short occupancy and trips that don't last more than a few days?

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wenkman

wenkman
maybe the thargoids have art. gravity and we can start a peaceful tech-exchange when we finally meet?
 
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Monk

Monk
I'd imagine zero-g is part of the attraction here. Most people live planet side or on stations with centrifugal force. Weightless vacation might be welcome.

I just don't want to be the poor fella who has to clean the guest rooms...yikes.

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NeilF said:
Simple... It always accelerates at 10m/s vertically...
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Until, it isn't.

All guest must reside in their protective bubbles during all emergency maneuvers. Failure to comply results in head smashed like melon.
 

CMDR Aengus

CMDR Aengus
What do you mean there's no artificial gravity? But there's so much Handwavium?
Source or video or it doesn't exist.

No artificial gravity.
Pfft.
 

Mephane

Mephane
Monk said:
I'd imagine zero-g is part of the attraction here. Most people live planet side or on stations with centrifugal force. Weightless vacation might be welcome.
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Probably this, plus to have gravity temporarily the ship could just hover with its vertical thrusters above a planet. I mean, that is technically what our ships do in a planet's vicinity, "orbital flight" is a highly misleading term: it is just supercruise close to a planet, and when you exit into normal flight, your ship is kept from falling down by its thrusters if you disable FAOFF you immediately start falling, destroy a ship and the dropped materials start falling etc.

Aboard a hovering ship, people would feel the appropriate gravity for that distance from the center of mass of the planet, which is still a large fraction of the surface gravity even high "orbits".
 
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StiTch

StiTch
Ian Phillips said:
Velcro. I would invest in the company now as the share value will skyrocket when we get commercial space travel :D
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The more I think about it, the more a spaceship interior decked in Velcro and wearing velcro shoes seems like a perfectly bona fide 100% genius idea.
 

CMDR Disco Cat

CMDR Disco Cat
Well, basically magnetic boots and LOADS of velcro.

I mean, just look at videos from the International Space Station. Carabiners and velcro everywhere.
 

Lendri

Lendri
Given that it only takes about an hour or so to cross the bubble, a gravdeck for a passenger vessel would be an absurd extravagance, like installing a toilet that flushes Chanel No 5 on a subway train.
 
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NeilF

NeilF
Can you imagine being a passenger on one of these ships?

Consider how often you fly along in a straight line at a constant speed... Well, all the rest of the time, your poor passengers, if they're not strapped into a seat, will be launching into a ceiling, wall or floor!
 
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