Starship design question

[Stark]

I asked him this earlier, but my guess is the Broadsword. It's the only official Traveller ship design that I know of where the decks are arranged perpendicular to the axis of thrust. I thought the AHL was just another standard Traveller Big Ship where the decks are arranged like it was a naval analogue. The Broadsword is a really interesting design and I just wish the whole game had did their designs based off that kind of layout.

Yeah, it's the Broadsword. It's a far 'harder' design than everything else in Traveller (the game with both plasma AND fusion guns). 4 removable shuttles that are like 20% of the ship's volume!

[montypython]

The radial deck-layout ovoid vessel (which was what I was envisioning originally) can have uniform gravitational force in an inhabited uniform cylindrical central body, with the narrower bow and stern regions occupied by machinery. Biggest reason for an ovoid shape off the top of my head is possibly relativistic streamlining, possibly.

[Jusu]

Hmm, since this is ships in TV Scifi (not bringing in Anime here, most of their stuff is...eh), what do you all think with the nBSG Galactica and Pegasus? I always thought the fact the Galactica's flight pods retracting into the main hull would provide an extra measure of integrity and possibly help prove to be the key to her survival. Galactica relied more on structural design for integrity, rather than armor (although I'm sure Pegasus had a similar design as well) to survive. By my last count, the only time the Galactica jumped without retracting its pods was in in the last episode, and she broke her back. But I'm also sure being pounded on by heavy arty helped contribute to it.

So I wanted to ask. Are Earth ships shaped the way they are mainly due to our familiarity in building stuff like it? Big, impressive things with bulky angular designs made to withstand damage?

Also as a side note, in terms of visual impressiveness. The Pegasus remake was damn way better than the Galactica or Basestars. Or it could be the fact she dished out pain in ways I never saw the Galactica do.

[Nyrath]

I asked him this earlier, but my guess is the Broadsword. It's the only official Traveller ship design that I know of where the decks are arranged perpendicular to the axis of thrust. I thought the AHL was just another standard Traveller Big Ship where the decks are arranged like it was a naval analogue. The Broadsword is a really interesting design and I just wish the whole game had did their designs based off that kind of layout.

Yes, I like it too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyrath/set ... 724051592/

[dworkin]

Whats the layout of Battletech's Drop Ships? Specifically the ones which are the Broadsword's bastard offspring, the Union and Overlord.

[Batman]

Whats the layout of Battletech's Drop Ships? Specifically the ones which are the Broadsword's bastard offspring, the Union and Overlord.

As is repeatedly and routinely laid out throughout the series they ARE set up so the thrust's artifical pseudogravity would be 'down'?

[tim31]

I was trying to get a pic of the Alliance towerblock cruisers to throw into the discussion here, but apparently Firefly fan jealously guard their material.

[Sinewmire]

http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/I.A.V._Dortmunder

I was trying to get a pic of the Alliance towerblock cruisers to throw into the discussion here, but apparently Firefly fan jealously guard their material.

There's a pic and some info on the wiki, accessible at the link above. It's a strange looking ship to my gravity-and-wind-resistance-bound mind.