RE: [OFFICIAL] MORE NEW STUFF NEWS!!
From: Tom Granvold <Thomas.Granvold@E...>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: [OFFICIAL] MORE NEW STUFF NEWS!!
> >Could you throw in a few with rotational sections (kinda like the JC
ships).
> >I would *love* to have some not-JC ships - seeing that DP9 prolly
won't be
> >making any.
>
> I avoided centrifuge sections for two reasons: 1) the FT background
has
> artificial grav, and ships using centrifuges would be well obsolete in
the
> timeline, 2) I didn't want to make them TOO close to the JC ideas -
I've
> always got on quite well with the DP9 guys in correspondance, I like
their
> products a lot and I didn't want to infringe on their designs - though
the
> overall concepts are just too nice not to do! I'd be only too happy to
see
> DP9 do some JC ship minis, 'cos I'd love some myself - though with all
the
> hassle they've had with RAFM over the HG stuff I don't know who they'd
get
> to do them.
>
> That said, some rotational habitat modules would be very easy to add
to
> many of the ships....
Maybe you could do the ship designs for DP9 :-)
Enjoy,
Tom Granvold <thomas.granvold@eng.sun.com>