RE: What do your ships look like? (was: Minatures)

On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Adam Delafield wrote:

> Date sent:  25-JUL-1996 08:42:19 
> 
> I've never seen the sense in this. Why not simply rotate the whole
damn ship?
> No pivots to worry about then.

Ever tried shooting out to the side form a rotating ship? Gunners might 
start getting a bit giddy after a few minutes...
Also, the further away from the hull you can take the rotating part, the

slower it will have to rotate. Using this sort of artificial gravity 
during a battle, however, is stupid. A malfunction will put the whole 
bridge into disarray. If a ship enters combat already at zero-G, this is

one less thing to worry about during a battle. A rotating section would 
probably have the accommodation for the crew, so they'd get normal (or
at 
least partial) G during sleep, and would thus be empty during battle. 

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