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Cinder Spires Airship Specs So Far
Mith:
@ Serack: Does the technical design of the ship make sense from an Electrical Eng. point of view? I ask because I am in Civil, so my alarm bells won't be set off from anything other then something really basic. The iea of an electrical gradient in the air makes sense to me, since there is a gradient formed prior to a lightning strike during a thunderstorm, so a lesser, but more sustainable (as in it doesn't burn up after one "strike") gradient could be established by the webbing. Although an electrical field "sail" could also work, but I would think that the environment would be too harsh to survive without protective gear if you have enough of a charge in the wind to push on the sail.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Mith on October 04, 2015, 06:58:56 PM ---@ Serack: Does the technical design of the ship make sense from an Electrical Eng. point of view? I ask because I am in Civil, so my alarm bells won't be set off from anything other then something really basic. The iea of an electrical gradient in the air makes sense to me, since there is a gradient formed prior to a lightning strike during a thunderstorm, so a lesser, but more sustainable (as in it doesn't burn up after one "strike") gradient could be established by the webbing. Although an electrical field "sail" could also work, but I would think that the environment would be too harsh to survive without protective gear if you have enough of a charge in the wind to push on the sail.
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Meh, there's enough hand waving vaguery that it doesn't really matter. Which is as it should be.
Serack:
On a similar note, I've only read the beta version, and I understand there was at least one huge change to some of the ethereal technology that has been done before it was published to enhance the story telling of that aspect of the world, so I'd have to read the released material to really form an opinion, both to see the end material, and so that I'm not recollecting something from last year.
Jim did have some serious discussion on some this stuff with the betas while it was in flux though.
Mith:
Fair enough.
crusher_bob:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 02, 2015, 12:46:24 PM ---My best guess would be that the mighty Battleship named Dreadnought was the original of a new design (and a flagship by the sound of it) and that afterward they started mass producing a new class of battleship based on it's design.
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I'd assume it's more of a reference to the historical HMS Dreadnought whose design was so influential that post Dreadnought battleships (who used the Dreadnoughts armament layout) were often referred to as 'dreadnoughts] and battleships completed using the old design scheme were relabeled as 'pre-dreadnoughts'
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