I've been thinking about the Classic #TravellerRPG Type S Scout/Courier.

A typical deck plan can be seen here : https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/shipyard/mongoose/type-s/passcour.png and from outside, it looks like this: https://canvastemple.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=175&pic=1&products_image_large_additional=images/ScoutCourier03.jpg&zenid=6ab97188493a1931f6df81e3c1f961d9

Now there is a problem with this. Look at the deck plan. Look at the line of thrust.

The walls should be floors!

But there is a solution - and one found in the real world!

Have a look at the RV Flip!

https://youtu.be/tQxQfQU_hsk?si=nj7J8ilwwW_6pTc8

So when in atmosphere or on the ground, the fittings could be rotated one way, and in space, under thrust, the other! No messing around with grav-plates!

#SF #ScfFi #SpaceTech #atomicrockets #StarShips

The Compton–Belkovich Thorium Anomaly is a volcano on the far side of the Moon. It was found by a gamma-ray spectrometer and is an area of concentrated thorium. Thorium-232 is not reactor fuel, but neutrons converts it into uranium-233 which is.

The thorium concentration reaches 5.3 µg/g while the surrounding basalts only contain between 0 and 2 µg/g. Compared to the Earth's thorium concentration of 0.06 µg/g, this is very high.

#AtomicRockets mine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%E2%80%93Belkovich_Thorium_Anomaly

Can Galactic Empires Realistically Exist?

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/empiredyn.php#id--Can_Galactic_Empires_Exist?

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For scifi writers and scifi #TTRPG game masters. An article about different power structures in different interstellar empires.

https://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-empires/

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Starmoth
A scifi universe building project

" a post-apocalyptic, post-capitalistic, interstellar setting where semi-realistic spacecraft coexist with unknowable alien ruins, paracausal creatures, open-source FTL devices and colourful, vibrant societies. "

https://www.starmoth.space/

#scifi #AtomicRockets #WorldBuilding

Realistic spacecraft bits, assembled by mikusingularity and I

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