Re: Ship (In)Stability - Joke

Michael,

In normal space operations there would be little to toss a ship around
waves.	This could happen if going very fast through an area with lots
of
small gravity wells or lots of space dust.  I would imagine that space
ships
would try to avoid both kinds of areas.
As far as stability loss due to battle damage, the critical factor would
be
the thrust of the ship.  If the ship has multiple engines annd loses
them
from 1 side, it might cause the ship to tumble out of control.	My
reading
of the rules is that they don't allow this.  The little histories they
give
of specific actions have ships loosing 1 ship thrust and it just slows
them
down.

Tim

Michael Blair wrote:

> Ship (In)Stability - Joke
> Do IJSN (Imperial Japanese Space Navy or whatever they are called)
ships
> have to make an involuntary roll if they lose more than half of their
> damage boxes?
> Not very funny I know but I have been reading about ship stability and
> it appealed to me.
>
> Distantly related true (?) story.
> In bad weather one of the Larne-Stranraer (Scotland - Northern
Ireland)
> ferries took shelter in a bay up the coast and radioed Larne harbour
> about the weather there to see if they could dock. They were told that
> the Baltic Ferry had just docked. They replied "The Baltic Ferry is
back
> from the Falklands, we're back from the scrapyard. We're staying put."
>
> Apparently on a passage with a lot of football supporters on board
they
> did not use the stabilisers, so they were too busy vomiting too cause
> any trouble, although the bottom of a stairwell was a pool of vomit!
>
> MRB.
>
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