(05-31-2014, 06:43 PM)St.Denis Wrote: I will try this simply. A Cargo Ship can mount a Freighter Shield and use no cargo capacity. The original design of the ship, for arguments sake, was for all the Machinery, Electronics and Electrical Gear to mounted internally. The Cargo Space available is 5000. The shield capacity is somewhere in the 20-29k capacity of protection.
Now I want to change my ship to having a Shield that has a capacity, of protection, of 100k. This is 3-5 times more capacity than it had before.
The shield Generator is probably a lot larger. The Cables that run the power to all the external projectors probably need to be increased. The external Projectors need to upgraded. The equipment that is connect, internally, to these projectors need to be up graded. All of this possibly requires more space than was originally given when the ship is built. The only available space is the Cargo Space to mount all the extra equipment in.
Eh... where to start...
You know that the first computers where hangars sizes? But as the time and technology progressed so did the computers. Look how big are they today. You can fit them in your hand. Same goes with generators. Human species always looks to compress things and make them smaller, no mater of their size or use. Cables don't need to be changed and to be bigger, even more they would be smaller. Technology would probably make new cables that would transfer larger quantities of power through wires with greater speeds.
Or for example USB flash drive. With each day it's getting smaller. I've seen some girls carrying USB-necklaces instead of gold-silver ones. They have gotten very small since their introduction to Humanity, wouldn't you say.
Or, I just remembered, there are micro chips today. Who are we to say that in 1000 years Humanity wouldn't be using micro singularity - aka small black holes contained by chambers with high gravity field, to harness their unlimited energy.
So you see even in today's world in which technology is not so advanced there are plenty of examples where all sorts of equipment are getting smaller and smaller.
(05-31-2014, 06:43 PM)St.Denis Wrote: As for guns. Yes they are mounted externally. But as I said previously all of the machinery and other equipment needed to power these guns must be placed somewhere. These guns aren't miraculously attached to the outside without needing support and power. Normal Guns (ones that were designed to be fitted to the ship) don't take up cargo space. The bigger and better guns (that the designers didn't make allowance for) need space to mount all the extra requirements for those guns.
As far as I know ships guns are powered by ship's ''core'', I'm I not right? And again cables go through walls. So, guns aren't powered by new generators which are places inside the ship next to the original one, but by the existing ship's core. Because ship builders knew that they would need to build more powerful cores for any of the ship's future tech to be implemented into ship.
And ''cargo storage'', you store ''cargo'' in it, and not turn it into equipment shop. It's the same as you having a garage and instead of putting a car in it you fill it up with all the mess from the house in it.
I guess you have seen a lot of Sci Fi movies and tv-series. In those movies and series I haven't seen any tearing up of the ships walls, floors or ceilings to replace the exiting ''cables and equipment'' to make tech on the ship better. But, using the existent network to maximize ship's capabilities is shown everywhere.
No more argument and discussion from me will be coming to this thread, because posting here one more time to explain something will probably result in me going on a cursing rampage.
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