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Sails?
Shecky:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 25, 2015, 12:36:46 AM ---Wrangler still makes a very good point though. How do you "tack to wind" in an airship? In water, it's the large resistance of the water together with a keel that allows you to keep your ship with sails at an angle to the wind. If your ship is completely in the air, what keeps the ship from turning into the direction of the wind?
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The crystals and the webbing. Between the lift and attitude crystals and the webbing, they could vector to a torquing force sufficient to produce a tacking effect.
Mith:
Yeah, I figured that the crystals were tasked with creating a sufficient analogue of a water surface, with the benefit of being able to control the "slope" of the "surface" that allows for ships to change altitude at an incline (instead of a straight drop.)
knnn:
--- Quote from: Shecky on October 25, 2015, 01:15:58 AM ---The crystals and the webbing. Between the lift and attitude crystals and the webbing, they could vector to a torquing force sufficient to produce a tacking effect.
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I thought the point was that the sails work in places where the webbing doesn't do anything.
Mith:
But the crystals would. Perhaps that was a mistype.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Mith on October 25, 2015, 03:06:10 PM ---But the crystals would. Perhaps that was a mistype.
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So we're saying that crystals alone are sufficent to keep a ship in a specific direction? Kinda like a massive gyro?
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