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Shecky:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 26, 2015, 12:44:21 AM ---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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No, the combination of webbing (to "catch" the etheric current) and the lift and attitude crystals would do that.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Shecky on October 26, 2015, 01:12:35 AM ---No, the combination of webbing (to "catch" the etheric current) and the lift and attitude crystals would do that.
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So again, what happens when there is no etheric current, or when you have to shut down the webbing to avoid mistmaws?
Shecky:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 26, 2015, 01:34:38 AM ---So again, what happens when there is no etheric current, or when you have to shut down the webbing to avoid mistmaws?
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Seems apparent that sails + lift and attitude crystals would supply motive force and maneuverability, if not quite as powerfully as adding the webbing would.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Shecky on October 26, 2015, 02:09:24 AM ---Seems apparent that sails + lift and attitude crystals would supply motive force and maneuverability, if not quite as powerfully as adding the webbing would.
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re:maneuverbility, so how do you move in a direction that's not exactly the way the wind is going? 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?
Mith:
I think the idea behind the lift crystals is to provide the equivalent resistance to the ship that water would have done for a water vessel.
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