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Yet Another Cutter

It seems like it'd be tough to store things an angle, eg the bottom portion of the walls on the lower deck.

So I'm thinking "hex top, rectangular bottom" or simply making the cylinder or hex big enough to hold an average shipping container whatever that might be.

I could see the Modular Cutter having a "bloat" module like some aero-transports have on their fuselage. The module can be a regular streamlined thingy or the "bloat" section which can house specific cargoes that just go past the overflow for a regular module.


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Nice Show !

Love the SDB doing the U-turn back to the planet. Nice work on the cutters.

Hey -- aint the Broadswords unstreamlined and can't land on planets ? :p
or was that resolved in the newer editions ? :D
 
Gadrin said:
Hey -- aint the Broadswords unstreamlined and can't land on planets ?
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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?)
 
jawillroy said:
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?)
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Yes, I'm just kidding of course, CT Adv 7 is one of my favorites. I remember seeing one of them landed on a starport tarmac -- The Reposession adv in Wanted: Adventurers -- and realizing, hey you can't do that (a typical Traveller theme).

They also come out of jump very close and are on the planet pretty quickly, but I suppose it's TIME CONDENSED, as GT has it taking a significant amount of time to thrust to the 100-D mark.

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 ?

Okay, I'll stop being a d!ckhead.

Can I download those to keep ? I also liked the Marava in the bay and that shot of the Type-S coming up on the Kinunir and RS-Gamma was very nice.

Very good work !

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Let's face it, no matter what the 'RULES' say, the Broadsword looks like it should be able to land.
 
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.
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Andrew Boulton said:
It's been possible since MT (just as well, 'cos I forgot to check!)
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I'm just kidding, I like them.

I feel sorry for the single AA guy shooting at the cutters though :D

Broadsword lists them as only having missile racks (which is what you have right ?) and that they may have weapons modules aboard the cruiser.

Looking at GURPS Modular Cutter, they offer a 3xLaser, or 2xPlasma or 2xFusion for the cutter, man that's alot of damage...:oo:


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Arrrggh!

I downloaded them and Windows Media Player only plays the music and gives me psychedelic patterns !

Must...find...correct...codec :nonono:



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I started a flat version a bit closer to the DS9 Runabout mode for T4 purposes. Outboard engines and a big rectangular pod that can either slide out the back or be dropped like the standard version does. I toyed with it being a lift out model instead, but that makes it yard dependent.
 
I'm not going to mess about trying to find an image hosting site just for this, but my cutter interpretation is this:

Take a letter C, turn it 90 degrees clockwise and fit a square/rectangle inside it. That's your cross-section. It has a clamshell door as a base. You get armour, streamlining, and a square/rectangular section module. It might not fit in an OTU ship, but since it's ATU it doesn't need to.
 
Here it is with a cargo and personnel module:

octocut-26.jpg
 
I dunno.

Round (and round-ish) works good on planet earth because you need it streamlined for aerodynamics, but in space and with anti-gravity and reactionless drives, it becomes mostly unnecessary.

A cubic shape provides for better volume utilization.
 
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