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Cinder Spires Airship Specs So Far
crusher_bob:
--- Quote from: Serack on September 30, 2015, 04:17:42 PM ---Excellent observations. From an Electrical Engineering PoV, it implies a voltage gradient in the air that the "webbing" has to be charged to generate force against, however, the force is transferred at the crystals judging by the mount observation.
I had thought that the webbing gets an induced "current" that then gets channeled to and harnessed by the crystals to drive the ships.
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It looks like the webbing needs to be electrically charged to interact with the winds in the ether. The crystals provide the electrical power to do this. In addition, the webbing is a specific thing that interacts with the curents/winds in the ether. A 'regular' object charged with electricity doesn't seem to have any problems with wanting to move around.
cass:
--- Quote from: crusher_bob on October 05, 2015, 02:20:14 AM ---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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Plus the meaning of the name itself was very appropriate for an extremely powerful battleship -- dreadnought = dread + nought, literally fear-nothing, or, a ship that has nothing to fear.
Aesir:
Whether or not the D in Dreadnought is capitalized appears to be significant:
Chap 2: A truly efficient combat dive required a brief, severe period of reduction in speed, and Grimm had read accounts of battleships and dreadnaughts that had attempted a dive, only to have their lift crystals tear themselves entirely free of the ship when attempting to arrest their descent too rapidly.
Chap 20: Behind the desk, in a case, were miniature replicas of each and every airship in the Aetherium Fleet of Albion, from the mighty battleship Dreadnaught, the size of Rowl, down to the tiniest destroyer, Energetic, no larger than Gwen’s smallest finger.
As has already been said by others, I think it very likely that Dreadnaught is the highly influential first ship in a class of battleships that were larger than anything built before. Therefore a dreadnought (little d) is an especially large battleship, which in Albion's navy means ships of the Dreadnaught (big D) class.
The quote from chapter 20 very heavily implies that Dreadnaught is the largest ship in Albion's navy, so I'm keeping it simple and not speculating on the possibility that there might be a newer class of same-sized or slightly smaller big battleships (dread naughts) in service beyond those of the Dreadnaught class.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Seidmadr on October 04, 2015, 05:25:09 PM ---I agree that merchantmen used to carry heavy armaments back during the golden age of piracy. But my point here is that all military vessels we see in the book are armoured. Predator isn't. The closest classification I can find for her is a Q-ship: A warship disguised as a merchantman, but carrying military-grade weaponry.
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Fair point
--- Quote from: crusher_bob on October 05, 2015, 02:26:34 AM ---It looks like the webbing needs to be electrically charged to interact with the winds in the ether. The crystals provide the electrical power to do this. In addition, the webbing is a specific thing that interacts with the curents/winds in the ether. A 'regular' object charged with electricity doesn't seem to have any problems with wanting to move around.
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Agreed. And one of the noted differences between using the Ethereal Sails and wind power is that wind dictates your direction, which by implication is not an issue with the etheric ones. The part describing the paratroopers infiltration seemed to indicate that the webs are indeed a special material, so I think that normal things simply dont interect with the energy.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 05, 2015, 12:46:24 PM ---Agreed. And one of the noted differences between using the Ethereal Sails and wind power is that wind dictates your direction, which by implication is not an issue with the etheric ones. The part describing the paratroopers infiltration seemed to indicate that the webs are indeed a special material, so I think that normal things simply dont interect with the energy.
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Bah, definitely gotta reread, I forgot about the paratroopers thing.
My field is Cranes, and we use/design for dynamic breaking all the time (motor works as a generator to convert the energy of lowering a heavy load to electrical energy, that then either gets shunted to the power grid, or dissipated in resistors)
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