from The Expanse, Season 2 Episode 2 "Doors & Corners" Good guys are using repurposed FedEx cargo cans as makeshift boarding pods. They hope the bad guys will be confused, and not fire on the cans in order to avoid a FedEx lawsuit. click for GIF animation Silent Running (1972) Silent...
Smith realized that with hundreds of ships over huge expanses, the mere act of coordinating them was problematic. I think there is a synergistic effect. I also know a number of naval officers who have admitted to me that the reason they joined the Navy was because Starfleet Command wasn’t...
Engineers were forced to make sacrifices in quality in the construction and maintenance of both ships because of unreasonable time limits and financial constraints. In other words, both disasters can ultimately be attributed to systemic failures of an agency overburdened by unnecessary objectives. If ...
where pilots had to assemble the new Jericho tackler “Baphomet”. At the same time, the pilots had an opportunity to build the engineering ship “Mole”, engaged in bulk mining of asteroids in the expanses of the fringe sectors. Later on, the “Dream...
industry —only a little of it involving tourism—exceed $200 billion. NASA is counting on private companies such as SpaceX and Orbital Sciences to haul cargo to the space station. They are also spending billions to help SpaceX and Boeing build ships that will eventually take people there, ...
and their prominent presence in the mercenary business comes more from them being very well suited for the demands of that line of work. There are typically not a lot of opportunities for Chosa engineers or pilots outside of Chosa systems, but they are on average not far behind in their ...
Space Engineers Someone's Gotta Keep Everything Together Before you can head out into space, you need a ship and all the right tools to keep it running well. Of course, unless you're super-talented all on your own, you'll be looking for a crew, and filling it up with a few engine...
Firefly is widely considered a prime example of the genre outside of RPGs, as is Cowboy Bebop, and you can count TheExpanse as well. I think in RPGs, the Space Scoundrel might very well be the second most common archetype for PCs, after the heroic fantasy adventurer. And it makes ...
Fifty thousand feet over the California desert, the world is a vast expanse of blue with a drab carpet of khaki far, far below. Pilot Peter Siebold sets the craft’s trim to 18 degrees, pushes the stick forward, and counts down: “Three. Two. One. Releas
For Trippe and Charles Lindbergh, a key advisor, size was important. They wanted aircraft large enough and tough enough to handle the demands of flying over long expanses of ocean and through fluctuating weather conditions. Aeronautical engineers responded with some of the largest aircraft built in...