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Posted - 2008.06.21 11:26:00 -
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To give you another idea:
The USS Missouri is the same length from bow to stern as a Coercer, and a Nimitz-class supercarrier is about fifty meters shorter than a Caracal.
The largest ship ever built by humans is (I think) the Knock Nevis, an oil tanker that came in at 485 meters long, which is about the length (within a meter or two) of an Iteron 2, or a Hurricane-class battlecruiser.
A Boeing 747 is 77 meters long - one meter shorter than a kestrel.
EVE ships are big...
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Posted - 2008.06.22 10:45:00 -
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 Originally by: Lieutenant Isis
This is the exact reason that MWD are a bit ridiculous. Can you imagine something the size of an oil tanker going 5000 meters per second?
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Why not? They pull a thousand times the speed of light with ease.
A micro-warp drive is the exact same technology, just applied for comparatively smaller velocities.
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Posted - 2008.06.22 22:57:00 -
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They're called "inertial compensators", and they're a pretty much standard-across-the-board bit of unobtanium for every single sci-fi setting in the world that involves ships capable of superluminal travel.
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Posted - 2008.08.06 14:32:00 -
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because it looks pretty. ^_^
There's also the point that these ships have a maximum speed. I reckon what it is is that the warp engines, while online, create a "drag" effect that serves to constantly try and hold the ship still relative to the local gravity well. If that's the case, then coming to a stop would be as simple as just turning the engine off and letting this "superfriction" with the fabric of the universe be your brake.
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Posted - 2008.08.29 00:22:00 -
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I said it before, I'll say it again: Inertial compensators.
Seriously, pretty much any sci-fi setting that hinges upon superluminal travel absolutely require these things, otherwise the instant any ship accelerated to FTL speeds, the crew would become an evenly-spread film of organic molecules on the rear bulkhead... which would near-simultaneously become part of a rapidly expanding cloud of crushed and mangled debris.
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