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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:50 pm
by Orion
Steam.. as in gas water? Why is it trapped in the gravity of that small rock? wouldnt it just immediately float away?
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:04 am
by Andon
Adaven wrote:QUOTE (Adaven @ Jan 6 2011, 11:22 PM) Even if the rock was 100% Uranium, it would still only be about 4 times more dense than average Earth density.
Tech rocks in Alleg are what, 3-4km? So surface gravity would be something like 0.02 m/s^2.
Although I do like the steam idea.
Err... An alleg sector is less than 3km top to bottom. A Tech Rock has a radius of what... 50m?
Still - It looks neat.
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:18 am
by Adaven
Andon wrote:QUOTE (Andon @ Jan 7 2011, 08:04 PM) Err... An alleg sector is less than 3km top to bottom. A Tech Rock has a radius of what... 50m?
Still - It looks neat.
I was being generous.
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:21 am
by SpaceJunk
If you are going to nitpick, you will have to explain where shipyards yard all those ships.
Anyway, the steamy U rock is a methaphor for the hungry gravity of life's craving for power, which exceeds its actual material substance. You just can't appreciate Allegiance's poetic message.
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:11 pm
by Adept
SpaceJunk wrote:QUOTE (SpaceJunk @ Jan 8 2011, 06:21 AM) You just can't appreciate Allegiance's poetic message.
Sorry, but I also prefer it as a classic U-rock. Other than that your more-rounded rocks are 'teh awesome'.
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:35 pm
by fuzzylunkin1
Heh, nice to see a thread where you keep everything. It was getting really tedious finding everything of yours I like to use
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:54 pm
by raumvogel
SpaceJunk wrote:QUOTE (SpaceJunk @ Jan 7 2011, 11:21 PM) If you are going to nitpick, you will have to explain where shipyards yard all those ships.
They contain a "Fantastic Voyage space ship shrinking device"
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:54 pm
by madpeople
FYI the "steam" is vaporised mercury held in place by electromagnetic forced produced by currents inside the molten U rock. Also why it forms rings rather than an even distribution.
Alternately it is electrostatic forces acting on charged particles within the gass, U rock's surface charge alternates +-+-. Result is gas gets attracted to some places (where the rings are) and not others, the gas doesn't reach the surface because of the heat - equilibrium static forces pulling in against the gas trying to fly off into space.
If you're still not happy, then I will say that there is a witch living in the rock and she smokes and uses magic to keep the nicotine smoke around because it is hard to buy cigars when you live on a u rock.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:52 pm
by Zekros
madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Feb 9 2011, 06:54 AM) If you're still not happy, then I will say that there is a witch living in the rock and she smokes and uses magic to keep the nicotine smoke around because it is hard to buy cigars when you live on a u rock.
LOL Mad!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:12 am
by SpaceJunk
The good news: I've learned to remap UVs and paint textures with Blender, so I'll be retexturing GT ships now.
The bad news: some texturing requires using big brushes and my little laptop struggles with them, so it will take a while to complete all ships.