Space Setting Details Thread

>>54208474
How do I make always-on artificial gravity aboard ships reasonable without making gravity manipulation a simple solution to every problem?

>>54208474
>"Cyclo", not "Roundabout"
>"Holepuncher", not "hab-hazard"

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>>54208494
Gravity is constant acceleration as a consequence of proximity to a large mass. In the absence of a large mass, you need to create that acceleration another way.

And probably go in a circular manner, if you want to be able to move your ship independently of the gravity direction on your ship.

tl;dr: spin it up, DJ

>>54208494

Power output or the equipment can't be down-scaled

>>54208526
>snatch, cunt, beavers, womanhood

All different names for the same thing

>>54208494
Make it impossible or nearly so to precisely control it, especially at ranges greater then a few dozen meters, and make it require a whole lot of power, exponentially so at in sort of significant range. Sure you can keep a few monkeys stomping around on deck and you might be able to shoot out a tractor beam that can tug maybe a small shuttle to you but anything bigger and the grav plates and reactors to power them will take up more than half your ship and there are simply cheaper, more efficient ways to do most things.

>>54208474
>"Void Fever": Otherwise known has space madness, staring into a window and seeing nothing but pitch dark blackness can have a detrimental affect on one's health.

>>54208594
Adjusting the geometry of the magnetic fields requires lots of very difficult math that can only be done by proprietary AIs owned by the company that makes the AG equipment.

No human alive knows how to adjust the fields in any useful manner, and the AIs that would know how to do it aren't for sale. As far as anybody who hasn't signed an NDA (or has an NDA written into their code) knows, AG machines work by black magic. In fact, there are even rumors that the source code contains Basilisk hacks as a form of malicious copy protection. Any attempt to decompile the code results in madness for humans and death for AIs.

This also means that if it WERE possible to do something cool like use the AG system to turn an enemy boarding party into a pulp, the only people who would be able to do it would be the company that manufactured the hardware. So think twice before trying to steal ANYTHING from them.

(Of course your players are going to try anyways, so enjoy this plot hook)

>>54208611
You wouldn't see pitch dark blackness though, you'd see a vast stary expanse far more vivid and bright than any night sky planet side. Atleast as long as you aren't using some fucky ftl.

Slang
>Virch: Virtual habitat, used to store AIs and uploads unable to afford a physical frame. Generally used derogatorily a la ghetto as payments to have yourself run on a simulation server is much cheaper than even the most modest meatspace quarters

>Dummy Gun/DumDum Rifle
>A weapon/weapon system using minimal to no computer components, i.e. standard rockets vs AI controlled missiles, analog rifles vs aimbot guns, etc

>Brainer/Headcase/(Y)uri/Cleo
>Psychic.

>Sungun/Sunshiner
>Fusion Powered weapon.

Products
>NuTato
>Not actually much like a potato, the NuTato is a gengineered root vegetable created to combat global famine. Bioterrorism and simple mutation rapidly overran the reproductive limitations hardcoded into their geneome and the NuTato rapidly became a huge pest plant, outcompeting other crops as well as local flora. Still tastes pretty alright, though.
Quirks/Traditions
>Seedstock from earth is a highly sought after commodity, because it's considered highly inauspicious to begin a new colony without a seed from humanity's homeworld being planted , so as to "put down roots". Trees are generally preferred, but beggars can't be choosers and many more recent colonies have a very prominent corn stalk, flower bush, or (if they're very unlucky) NuTato plant in their center.

>>54208594
For a possible illustration on this concept think of the difference between ship gravity generators and a crazy gravity weapon like the difference between a light bulb and a laser rifle. We've had and extensively used the former for a long time, the latter is still a WIP that's no where near cost effective.

>>54208792
Sure, at least that's what GraviTech tells you. Rumors about people getting liquefied by rapidly osculating tidal forces, each no greater than the 1g the generator is rated at, are tottaly unfounded.

>>54208897
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>>54208474
Holes in hulls are easily patched. It's irreplaceable components or components that cause problems if damaged while operating that's of concern. Being obsessed with hull holes is the sign of an obvious dirtlander. Even the skylanders only worry about spall from penetrations.

>>54208979
Rumors that GraviTech learned the secrets of spacetime manipulation from beings outside of time which dwell deep within black holes, and who demand sacrifices of sentient lives as payment, are completely unfounded.

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>The Model A113-C9 was designed as a Sleeper ship originally, meant to silently sail between the stars for centuries at a time while the crew goes into cryogenic sleep.
>The ship was retrofitted to be a standard cargo runner, and it seems to have adapted poorly to the change.
>The ship's AI navigator and auto-pilot takes offense to human pilots attempting to take control of the ship. It no longer shuts them out of the controls, but pilots often report "sluggish" reaction times while navigating asteroid belts.
>The AI also takes several seconds to update its "real-time" astro-maps, a product of still adjusting to FTL sensors.
>The ship was not originally designed for FTL flight, leading to an unnerving rattling whenever making the jump. The ship's AI engages its Lockdown and Red-Alert procedures whenever this happens, its sensors reporting an impact along its under-side dorsal section. This is doubly odd as the dorsal section was removed prior to being re-purposed.
>Occasionally, a port side airlock on deck 2 reports a 'tapping' sound during low-light hours. No one has been able to discover the cause of this, leading many to assume the ship is haunted.
>The accelerator controls have to be tapped back to the 'All Stop' position while docked, as the stick has a little give in its joints.