33rd Century Design - DSS

Monkey Pants

Monkey Pants
In this advanced age shouldn't the Detailed Surface Scanner actually rotate to face its target?

This would allow a flyby of a planet like back in the 20th century (read Stone Age)

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Spaceman Si

Spaceman Si
That does depend on the probe design and capabilities. Even Voyager had an indepentantly rotatable instrument platform so the probe itself could minimise propellant usage for sightseeing manoeuvers ;)

It would be handy if the DSS was moveable, you might expect that in the 34th century, but it might take some of the sense of wonder away from having to point your ship at the target planet and scan. Ymmv, I haven't yet done more than a couple of scans, so I don't know how tedious this gets eventually :)
 
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Vardaugas

Vardaugas
Don't diss the DSS! It is capable of scanning the whole planet, even if you never get to the other side, it just looks straight through.

But here's an idea: Multi-crew co-pilot can aim the DSS independent from the pilot's navigation. Multi-crew needs more reason to exist anyway.
 

Kayweg

Kayweg
Vardaugas said:
Don't diss the DSS! It is capable of scanning the whole planet, even if you never get to the other side, it just looks straight through.

But here's an idea: Multi-crew co-pilot can aim the DSS independent from the pilot's navigation. Multi-crew needs more reason to exist anyway.
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Even better, you can scan right through a massive star, sitting straight in front of you, which completely obscures the object you're scanning.
Gimballed DSS however, naw, too complicated. :D
 

Siranui

S
Maro-Val said:
Yea lol. Goes hand in hand with the advanced sensor technology that we have in game.
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I'd say that being able to press ONE BUTTON and scan an entire planet and it's geology, Light Seconds away, without any need to set the instrument up, calibrate it, fiddle with it, align it in more than a 30 degree arc, interpret, sort or analyse the results, with not even a requirement to hold it still, travel at constant velocity or even drop below the speed of light is pretty damned advanced.

I cant think of many sensors that can do many of those things.... even when it comes to measuring a voltage!
 

SkyB

SkyB
You know what would be funny?

If you play the soon to be released Jurassic Park.

There is a small beacon hidden on the map and if you find it and click it a Thargoid does a flyby over the park to have a look at what's going on. It then will scoop the beacon and disappear.

They have been around for millions of years in our neighbouring space.

This would be a cool easter egg.
 
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Saool

Saool
In the 33rd Century shouldn't ships fly themselves far better than any Human could? Shouldn't all space exploration and combat we done by autonomous AI? Shouldn't Humans just go after the fact in automated ships.

Within decades, today, people are only ever going to drive car's for sport and leisure. All road driving with be autonomous and it will probably be illegal to drive manually. That won't change in space, when machines can do it 1000 times safer then any human can.

If we start pulling up individual features like this, you quickly end up at: why am I sat in a seat with a joy stick like it's 1963?

Same answer: Game.
 
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