Order Super Battleship Design Contest //-stationary base as a ship

[Mickk]

of course - its a totally undetailed model consisting of like 200 polygons ( normal warships have 12000 )

its just a concept - rand only spoke of a concept contest:laugh:. -

about the problem with such a sunsail ... firstly - yes.. sunsails are not freelancerlike. - freelancer uses solid solarcells and solar reflectors. - but if such a sunsail would exist - it would be made highly translucent AND of course not being included in the hitbox.

the effect would then be that it was only a thin foil that you can fly through ( well, we got no real physics... so it cannot tore )

the main design aspect is rather the missing engine though and the heavy lifter like claws for when the ship is supposed to move.
when it comes to a stronghold of greater proportions - it is indeed the freelancer way to pick a large rock and build a base in. - thats cheap, solid, and can be made a real battlestation. no one in their right mind would actually build such a large ship.

Jinx, the solar sail idea is almost exactly right, although I don't know how it would be used to generate power...

If you can find it, read "Wind from the Sun" by Arthur C Clarke, everything you could ever want to know about solar sails is in that story, despite the fact that it may very well be pure sci-fi.

Note: trying to get an image down on paper is harder than I thought.....but I have come up with a name for it. How about "Cheops" as in the largest pyramid out there, it sticks with the Egyptian naming theme...

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