Re: FT-Battleships

----- Original Message -----
From: David Griffin <carbon_dragon@yahoo.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: FT-Battleships

> I missed some of this thread, but it sounds like
> you're using something like the supership concept
> to design a little ship inside the ship. In other
> words, each turret is a small vessel containing
> some systems? If this is true, then it can have
> it's own drive system (MD1) sufficient to move the
> turret and based on the weight of the turret?
>
> Maybe it would help if you published an entire
> example. Say a Vree battlesaucer with a big
> turret in the middle, all costed out?
>
That`s what I was aiming for originally, raised by the fact the turrets
on
the musashi/yamato wheighed more than a destroyer. I suppose you could
build
them with engines, but that would require you to add 50% mass for the
launching bay. A turret would be securly and very permanatly fixed to
the
main hull, and wouldn`t be able to be removed away from a large
shipyard. Of
course, they could be blown off by weapons fire.

BIF

"Yorkshire born, yorkshire bred,
strong in arms, thick in head"