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Valaggar
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That's a good idea. After all, if they can't manipulate gravity, how can they create a suitable gravity inside space ships?
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Valaggar
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At the StarBase, maybe. Maybe on the Vindicator too. But what about, say, Fwiffo's StarRunner?
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Defender
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Artificial gravity well.
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Valaggar
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Exactly.
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Valaggar
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Magnets?! So the Ur-Quan hanging on the ceiling have iron boots or what?! Not to mention the Umgah...
Plus, prolonged weightlessness has negative effects on the (human) body.
Constant thrust? And when they stop - BOOM! Plus, some ships are too slow.
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Grakelin
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I thought the Ur-Quan was hanging off the ceiling the way a spider might hang off it's web. >.> And the Umgah look sticky.
I'm not much good at engineering and physics whatnot, but a gravity generator and a magnet are both pretty similar things, aren't they? I mean, the Earth is pretty much just a big magnet that makes us all stick nice and close. I'm pretty sure if you could somehow simulate that affect, you'd get something equal to that kind of weight. Just having everyone wear magnetic boots at all times is incredibly inconvenient. If someone can explain how gravity actually works, that will bring us one step closer to answering this.
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Valaggar
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Anyway, how would gravitons work? And how would the way they work work? And so on... you can't find the First Cause of anything, you have to stop somewhere.
As to Star Control... maybe Ur-Quans and Umgahs etc. are sticky/etc., but what about the Druuge, the Utwig, the Supox, the Orz *fingers*, the Pkunk, the Yehat, the Thraddash etc. etc. Not to mention that incense-like gas in the Utwig captain portrait.
Also, as I've said, prolonged weightlessness has a negative impact on the skeleton and the muscles. So they surely can manipulate gravity to a very little extent (except the Chmmr with their tractor beams and the Arilou with inertia dampeners).
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konthra7
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The cool thing about sci-fi, is that you don't HAVE to explain exerything. Why worry about? Call it "Artificial Gravity" and drive on. Need to bend things a little? Also easy, you can explain to the reader that the <something> is based on the same princple as the artificial gravity. Am I making any sense here? Unless have a doctorate in physics or mathematics, I really wouldn't worry about it. This is, after all, about the story: what happens behind the scenes, not the tech behind it all. If you want to know about THAT, I'd cotact the originators an get their thoughts before continuing the topic.
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Valaggar
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Detailed sci-fi, which explains things in detail (although not necessarily in a scientific way) is nicer.
As to what explanation to use, I think everyone agrees that it'd be nice to use BioSlayer's one.
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JonoPorter
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I just had a thought to make the system seem closer to what you see in the game:
The drills could be launched from the mother ship and remotely activated. So what happens is after the mother ship scans the planet and decides to mine it. It will launch the drills and they will all activate simultaneously above their targets. By the time the lander is prepped and crewed and landed the drills would have already finished their work. So all the lander would do is go around chopping up the spheres of materials and load them aboard the lander. This makes it closer to the game since all the minerals are represented by Spheres.
This could also explain why a lot of the wild life attacks the lander crew. They are angry because the planet just got a few good chucks ripped out of it and in the process a few friends of theirs got hurt.
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