To Frankenstein a Bird

[Remnant]

The new guy is actually pretty useful. He seems to know his way around the ship mechanics, that makes the next part quite a bit easier for me. I could get used to this.

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-- Log Two --

Well, we have the chassis finished. Lets skip to my absolute favorite part, shall I, eh? The engine systems. I hear that there is to be someone I should talk to about upgrades later about these systems, I may as well complete my version first and then see whatever the heck he wants to change about it.

Now while I can't replicate anything that my ever so lovely sister could design, i'm pretty confident about the design that I plan to use for this vessel. Shame it's going to be mutilated slightly later on, but lets use what we have first of all.

Alright, from the beginning then. Ever since space travel had become more and more used like it is today, people start changing out their engine designs. Getting rid of the classical turbines in place of mere exhaust for what happens with the plasma in the internal chambers of the device. I disagree with that logic completely. Sure, it may be slightly cheaper. But keeping the turbines while making sure the blades could stand up to escaping plasma actually has some very good upsides to the work.

Number one. While in travel, the blades would spin at a very fast rate. The Plasma exhaust would be forced not to come straight out, but take on a slight rotational movement due to the blades forcing things around. Almost like a vortex if you would. While you'd think this would make the ship be rather uncontrollable, the effect is actually quite the opposite. As long as the equations and lengths of the turbine blades are correct, it actually would be spinning at a fast enough rate to stabilize the thing. Maneuvering thrusters can take care of the turning, although this forward movement bonus seems to be something which will prevail in the equations of movement. I'll get the other guy to balance out the turns.

Number two. This thing was built with the purpose of actually entering an atmosphere well in mind. We have a turbine. Why not integrate with the systems a secondary propulsion method similar to a jet? While not being used in space, an air intake can be made use of converting this from running on it's standard propulsion, to something much, much, much more efficient while there is air resistance.

The chamber itself that standard engines use I admit is probably one of the more efficient. If this vessel was bigger than a fighter, I could put together a new system which would deliver quite differently than normal, although the parts I need for that are significantly too large for a ship of the size which we're working on now.