On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Eric Funk (antispam)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> And as mentioned above, the
>>> cost of maintenance and of moving the empty weight will be
>>> substantial.
>>
>> I'm hoping to cover most maintenance with cyberswarms.
>
> the interval for 2500$ ("Cheaply made") is 4 hours' mtce every 283 hours
> (0.34h per day?).
My plan: stick a cyberswarm hive in each container to recharge passing
swarms, and put together a set of cyberswarms each dedicated to
maintaining one or two pieces of standard equipment, and just set them
wandering around container-conglomerations. It could be a bit tricky
to distribute the different swarms usefully as the conglomeration
evolves, or breaks up entirely into individual containers, but I
haven't thought of a better method.
The best alternative I've thought of is to have a collection of
remote-controlled robot shells to do essentially the same thing, but
that runs into essentially the same troubles, only robots tend to be
even bigger and more expensive than cyberswarms.
>>>> Body: underbelly skid.
>>>
>>> Where do you plan to land?
>>
>> Luna. Possibly some small asteroids/comets that've been pushed into
>> Earth-Lunar orbital space.
>
> OH, I was wondering if you might want solar panel on the "top" to generate
> ~16kW...
I've been thinking about it, going back and forth - and I think I'm
just going to call solar surfacing an 'optional extra' that some
people can build into their containers, but isn't necessarily built
into all of them.
>> TL8 Space Cargo Container
>
>> P&P: 36,364-kWs advanced battery, six 100 lbs. thrust cold gas
>> thrusters (vectored thrust, Isp 672, delta-V 0 mph; long term access).
>
> silly question -- why not a single thruster with vectored thrust?
Because any given container could be clamped onto on any side, a
single thruster wouldn't be guaranteed to be able to thrust directly
away from the clamped side, even with vectored thrust. Six may be a
bit excessive, but since I'm going for backup radios, I'm willing to
call the extra thrusters backups.
>> Fuel: 1,000 gal standard fuel tank (fire modifier -2), 1,000 gal argon.
>
> seems like a lot
Argon cold-gas thrusters have pretty low thrust.
>> A quick comparison of ranges of 2500 cf gizmos:
>> lasercomm: 200,000 mi
>> radio: 100,000 mi
>> radar: 62,500 mi
>> passive radar: 62,500 mi
>> thermograph: 62,500 mi
>> low-res imaging radar: 31,250 mi
>> ladar: 31,250 mi
>> UV laser: 15,909 mi
>> neutral particle weapon: 8,238 mi
>> hi-res imaging radar: 1,250 mi
>
> perhaps microwave power relays?
Good point - I know I'm including microwave power receivers, and
forgot to try building the transmitters. A 900 MJ concealed compact
disrupter (2,500 cf) has a Max range in space of 1,931 miles. (On the
other paw, a 2,500 cf beamed power receiver can only handle 25 MW, so
it'll take a bunch of receivers modules to handle the full output of a
single transmitter module...)
>>> Or even have a container dedicated as a "front porch" that could be
>>> compressed or decompressed as an airlock.
>>
>> Note to self - add 'big airlock' to the list of standard modules. :)
>
> say a 20-man airlock, a 500cf "morgue" for hard space suits (GT:Space
> suggests 500cf is enough storage for 20 suits and accessories and
> maintenance room), and a locker for misc g, and
Seems entirely reasonable
> how about a "storm shelter" module for heavy rad shielding?
>
> (also useful if the setting has hostile particle weapons)
>
>
> GT:starships has a medium shelter 1500cf which is enough for 8 persons,
> 4-man airlock, 20 days LS at TL8.
Ah, that's even better than the shelter from THS I'd been looking at.
> Office space for 16 cubicles and a conference room, full LS: 2000cf
Sounds good.
I'm trying to think of a few modules other than the simple 'filled
with 2500cf of one thing from Vehicles' approach. A one-person home as
redundantly self-sufficient as possible; a medical clinic, or at least
a set of pieces for one; 1/20,000th of a Transhuman Space 'modular
robofac' (good, on average, for the industrial needs of 5 people); a
water refinery from THS:Deep Space; whatever's required to get the
nuclear pellet refinery from THS:DS to work; a commercial shop... and
whatever else seems reasonable.
Thank you for your time,
--
DataPacRat
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