far-trader
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Speaking not just for myself I'm sure, in a word, yes.
In two words, yes yes!
In three words...
...eventually, with a high enough word count, there may even be a please and thank you in there. Almost certainly.
Starport Landing Pads
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Speaking not just for myself I'm sure, in a word, yes.
In two words, yes yes!
In three words...
...eventually, with a high enough word count, there may even be a please and thank you in there. Almost certainly.
madmike
SOC-12
OK, here we go.
Scans of two A2 (not A3) plans for Conradin Starport.
I found the text and I am a bit embarrassed to admit that at the age of 16 (1982) I plagiarised Exonidad starport info to flesh out my version. I have 28 pages of handwritten notes and floor plans.
Looking back over those 30 years, perhaps my version would not be a Class A starport. However for those classifications, I reckon it does not matter how big a starport is, rather it offers the right amount of facilities to achieve that rating. Facilities were interconnected by underground light rail called "mazeways"
I still reckon Exonidas is about the best starport arrangement around, though I did add the fact much later that the highport was geosynchronous and tethered. I cannot find any written down stuff for that however.
Hope you like it anyway. Bigger images available if needs be.
Scans of two A2 (not A3) plans for Conradin Starport.
I found the text and I am a bit embarrassed to admit that at the age of 16 (1982) I plagiarised Exonidad starport info to flesh out my version. I have 28 pages of handwritten notes and floor plans.
Looking back over those 30 years, perhaps my version would not be a Class A starport. However for those classifications, I reckon it does not matter how big a starport is, rather it offers the right amount of facilities to achieve that rating. Facilities were interconnected by underground light rail called "mazeways"
I still reckon Exonidas is about the best starport arrangement around, though I did add the fact much later that the highport was geosynchronous and tethered. I cannot find any written down stuff for that however.
Hope you like it anyway. Bigger images available if needs be.
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Exonidas High Port is one of the several types of high port I routinely use.
Type 1: Full city in orbit, with full port facilities, including yards.
Type 2: Full featured port in orbit, including repair yards. Limited local population. Whole thing is part of the extrality zone.
Type 3: modest port - No yards, limited hostelry, few bays. Mostly a docking port for shirtsleeve transfers to shuttles. Docking complex mostly open frame with umbilical/passenger transfer arms.
Type 4: Fuel only port. All other services direct from ground via shuttle. Exonidas
Type 5: Control only. No public terminals, but has a control center in orbit. Control center may be something as simple as Mir, or as complex as a full-up megaton+ military station, but you hope you never have to do more than talk to it.
Type 6: Satellite control. Eyes for the downport to monitor orbit.
christopher.boote
SOC-12
But - while I think this is a brilliant idea - isn't the Type W unstreamlined?
Correcting...
Thank you. I had missed that detail. So I suppose it would need transport to the surface of a world with an atmosphere.
The additional transport would increase the cost of a base to a certain extent, but I still think in the right circumstances it would still be a cheap alternative for a wing and a prayer type operation.
Or most especially, since the Scouts have a massive surplus, and certainly would have support vessels capable of deploying them, I still think it is viable.
On airless worlds, asteroids, and in orbit, the barge would still make an excellent cheap base, or hub for a base.
Thank you. I had missed that detail. So I suppose it would need transport to the surface of a world with an atmosphere.
The additional transport would increase the cost of a base to a certain extent, but I still think in the right circumstances it would still be a cheap alternative for a wing and a prayer type operation.
Or most especially, since the Scouts have a massive surplus, and certainly would have support vessels capable of deploying them, I still think it is viable.
On airless worlds, asteroids, and in orbit, the barge would still make an excellent cheap base, or hub for a base.
christopher.boote
SOC-12
Or a 30 ton module carried down in a pinnace
Only, that wouldn't work with large ships (larger than the Pinnace itself).
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