"Ship Design" (Art by Aeolys)
"Ship Design" (Art by Aeolys)
Source (Bluesky)
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There are so many reasons that geometry of a space ship matters from pressurization structural stability, acceleration stress, to deflection angle of space debris during travel.
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Be more like the Borg. Our space ship is a literal cube. Efficiency!
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Wouldn't a sphere be more efficient?
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Arkon and by extension Terran ships in Perry Rhodan.
Perry Rhodan also has something a bit like the Borg (but I'm pretty sure much older) called PosBis, and their ships are described as roughly cube shaped nightmares.
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Depends on what metric is being measured for efficiency.
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The Borg have spheres too, to be fair.
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If you're making square rooms inside, then no.
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That's dwarf fortress: Odyssey
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I love ships that wouldn't work well in atmosphere! They look much cooler! Feel more spacey!
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My friend in avorion spent countless hours designing incredibly cool, streamlined ships that had V wings and neatly spinning barbettes for weapons systems. He downloaded the fan-made recreations of popular sci-fi series.
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I made cubes. I put square stone on top of square metal armor on top of reinforcing blocks, and threw everything into ever-expanding cubes. Once I got the auto-targeting weapons, I WAS the borg. It was beautiful.
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Fine, it'll be a double walled square.
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Engi freighter always
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Me playing avorion.
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Save our Ships devs in shambles. Or elated maybe?
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