I understand why they created her that way but from a tactical stand point having some rail guns that can fire from all sides would be nice. Then you could fly over the top of another ship and open fire while being protected by your thick bottom.
The 4 quad-rail railguns located around the landing apron in front of the drive section can traverse from top to bottom through their deployment tunnels...
So I am rereading the books again because I love them. But I watched battlestar galactica the other day now everything I read about the jump flash I picture their jump flash. Anyone else also do this?
Yeah Kelly I've been playing the Galactica jump flash in my head since book 1. The one that is unfortunately stuck in my head is its last jump, where you see the structure of this massive ship bend, flex and possibly crack in a few places. Of course the one that plays through my head when the Falcon jumps into the atmosphere is from the second or third season (Can't remember which) where they jump the Galactica into the atmosphere. Just an awesome visual.
Oh yeah I loved that episode in season 3 galactica just jumps in and falls launches vipers then jumps out. Wonder if Nathan has ever thought about trying that maneuver?
The shockwave itself would stun some ground forces, could be an advantage to an assault on a base.
I think that when a ship jumps in it displaces all the air it occupies. You can see it with the jump shuttles busting windows and when the falcon knocks people out with its shockwave. My guess it a larger vessel may create too much of a wave and suffer damage or be destroyed.
I could be wrong of course.
I think the larger vessel might suffer damage form the turbulence like galactica did also plotting another jump back up while falling might be the harder part. I bet the aroura would do better because of her shape and thick bottom that she has.
I suppose it might damage the ship. It all sort of depends on how the jump process happens. You look at a returning Shuttle for instance. When is reenters the atmosphere it's not friction that causes the bottom to heat up, it's actually the compression of gases under the body that is causing the heat. This gets worse over time and with the thicker atmosphere the more compression and the heat increases and accumulates, of course the shuttle is slowing down so it doesn't heat up as quickly either. I'm thinking that jumping a ship the size of the Aurora would cause a displacement of the air on the order of an atomic blast (3 to 7 PSI over pressure). Now if it is displacing air from its center out (bear with me, I can't get around the idea of the air around the ship not moving out of the way as the Aurora jumps in) the heating effects on the Aurora's hull might be negligible having only pushed the air a maximum of 750 meters from it's original point. I am no expert on gases or the heating curve of gases under pressure. I do know that's how they make cryogenic liquids like O2 and Nitrogen. They pressurize a gas up to some ridiculous pressure causing it to heat up then they cool or let cool the pressurized gas then they bleed off the pressure causing the gas to cool and lose more heat until it turns into a liquid. Even if the Aurora did cause the air to heat to some incredible temperature it would be like adding the heat wave from an atomic blast, without the radiation. Or is that a bad thing? Just some speculation off the cuff. Now I feel the need to research pressurized gases. See what I did to myself.
Why not have the Aurora Jump into earth's atmosphere and land?? That would remove the need for a space based repair base. Build all ships on a planet then they jump out. IMHO it would remove some of the hassle of having to be weightless. More people could work on CV-01.
Aurora was not designed to land on a planet for one, but then you would also have to be able to get the Aurora to move before you could jump out, and to jump in, you would have to get your velocity down to as low as you can and then jump a few feet off the ground and fall onto your landing gears. Not exactly good for a ship that weighs several hundreds or thousands of tons with no landing gear.
Aurora was not designed to land on a planet for one, but then you would also have to be able to get the Aurora to move before you could jump out, and to jump in, you would have to get your velocity down to as low as you can and then jump a few feet off the ground and fall onto your landing gears. Not exactly good for a ship that weighs several hundreds or thousands of tons with no landing gear.
I realize it is not designed to land on a Planet. Heck why not fix the ships so they can? Put in Very heavy duty thrusters so it can hover above a surface. Then land??? The thrusters also could be used in combat too (along with the Jump engine)
Mostly because it is easier to move objects that have no weight in space, than it would be to handle objects with weight on a planet. With the jump drive, you can negate the amount of fuel required to get the ship off the planet, but your ships would also have to be smaller in size due to weight issue.
I could see modular construction with final assembly in space. Once you got the up and running building smaller corvettes and gunships would go pretty quickly. Thinking of WW2 PT boats. Heck, if you made them small enough you could hook them to a big blimp to lift far enough off the ground to jump out at the cost of a few cables.
http://www.ptboats.org/20-12-05-trivia-001.html
You could also distribute production across a wide area making your industrial base more robust.
when the falcon ran intercept on the ancot base, the displacement took out four fighters with the multiple sonic booms
