Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
A cylinder is the worst, since all the walls are curved. Hex is as bad, although flattened and curved might be okay.
Not to mention the mini-movie Ooops, I just did. But just try parking an octagonal cutter in a round slot ... :devil:Cutters are definitely cylindrical. All the text and pictures, plus the Broadsword deck plans, agree.
Hey -- aint the Broadswords unstreamlined and can't land on planets ?
According to LBB2, you're correct - however, the storyline in Broadsword explicitly has the C-ball landing under the protection of the ground-based meson... which had me W-T-F'ing when I read it.
IMTU, I let configurations like that scoop, but not land except in trace atmospheres and vacuums.
That said, it sure does look cool in the movie.
In fact, that whole movie looks cool as all getout.
I also dig the soundtrack - love me some Motorhead (how do I do umlauts on this thing?)
Not to mention the mini-movie Ooops, I just did. But just try parking an octagonal cutter in a round slot ... :devil:
Hey -- aint the Broadswords unstreamlined and can't land on planets ?
or was that resolved in the newer editions ?![]()
I thought I saw the cutter passing the Fun Ball as it got near to the planet
and the Fun Ball had two glowing cutter bays, or was that another one that didn't bother launching it's small craft ?
far-trader;270388 A modular cutter that is one deck high and squared would make a lot of sense in an economic usage of space with minimal waste sense.[/QUOTE said:It would make a great deal of sense indeed! One of the things that makes me yell at my computer screen is seeing how so many deck plans have rounded cargo spaces. I have designed a cutter based on a rectangular module, 6m wide, 3 m high, and 22.5 m long. It would fit seven 4 dton cargo containers. The stacking, and joining together would much more efficient. One cutter could (breaking streamlining) transport 6 modules at 1g. The modules make excellent (unstreamlined ) deck cargo.
It's been possible since MT (just as well, 'cos I forgot to check!)