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So i have a very specific ship question. When it comes to connecting "docking" 2 vessels with extreme size differences together. Starship to space station or shuttle to ship. What is the best/safest/most efficient way of doing it? Shuttle bays like Star Trek/Wars? Land on an exterior platform like DS9? Aircraft carrier style like CoD: Infinite Warfare? Something else?
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David Rachau I think the best is the shuttle bay style, with either an airlock function, or some sort of energy barrier to keep the air inside. Most realistic would be something like what they use on the ISS, but maybe with an extendable tunnel to connect the 2 airlocks.
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Road Master I think that would work with a military. But my issue comes from the idea of trusting a bunch of barely or untrained civilian pilots to not misjudge distance or hit the wrong button or lever and slam their ship into yours. Some type of automation or some type of tractor beam or gravity tether would likely negate a lot of the issues.
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David Rachau It would depend on the size of the station, and its purpose. I imagine docking arms where multiple smaller ships, or one or 2 larger ships could dock. Kind of like terminals and sky bridges at an airport.
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Science Coach I thought the aircraft carrier style deck of Battlestar Galactica was pretty smart. Simple way to recover Vipers and a big enough bay for larger spacecraft. (And the the Viper catapults were genius.)
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Road Master I love that style. Stargate did it as well. I'm torn between the catapult system of BSG and the drop system of Babylon 5. The enormous hangar deck does seem to solve many of the problems that other methods have, by virtue of incorporating the best parts of all the options.
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Science Coach In space the catapults seemed kinda silly (there isn’t any min takeoff speed in zero g) but then I thought it saved precious fuel by getting the Vipers up to speed on BSG energy
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Road Master I think it also made them a much harder target to hit. If they were just lifting off and moseying out the door, they'd be relatively easy to pick off. But if you shoot them out, by the time the enemy registers that there's a fighter out, the fighter is already maneuvering and shooting back.
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