Strato Incendus
- 188
- 23
Thanks again for all of your answers! :)
@Melbourne Guy : ...in your case for the more detailed behind-the-scenes info on who wrote what for Star Trek! ;)
The protagonist was taught how to shoot by her father, by she never had to use it, and did not really want to, either. Perhaps her training only consisted of shooting across the width of the ring in a practice room, rather than up or down the ring.
Although it would not really make sense to set up the practice shooting rooms this way if this is so relevant for the actual training of real security officers.
"Losses" are relative in this regard; both sides have an incentive not to deliver lethal shots, since they all know they might be the last survivors of humanity. (Contact to Earth and the other inhabited worlds of the Sol system has been interrupted at this point - so far, I blame that on a solar storm, but given that this would only hit Earth, for example, while leaving the rest of the planets in the same system unharmed, I might need a better justification within the story.) "Losing" in these battles means "being stunned and captured by the commander's forces, which might lead to the captives becoming unwilling participants in the continuation of the human species".Talking about spinward and antispinward in general, I have a few more quick questions regarding sports on the ship. Especially since @Filip Larsen said it might actually be more plausible if some parts of the ship do not have full 1G (or 1.05 G even, in my case, so that the crew adapt to the gravity of Teegarden b). So far, there is only 1.05 G (on the rings) or 0.21 G (in the central pipe). Of course I am aware that it gradually shifts from the outside of the ring to the first deck of the ring, all the way up the elevator shaft on the spokes. But if there are sections that have something in between 1.05 G and 0.21 G, a lot more people would be affected by the need for a daily 2-2.5 hours exercise routine.
So far, someone spending all day on one of the rings could theoretically get by with just as much exercise as one would recommend on Earth, while someone working all day in the central pipe would have to do the 2-2.5 hours that ISS inhabitants do per day.
Here come the sports questions:
1) My initial mental image for the sports scene during the third chapter (to show how it is mandatory / necessary for survival on board) included swimming. So the first big question is: Would it be possible for the ship to have a swimming pool somewhere on the rings? Size-wise, this would not be a problem: Competitive swimming pools are 50 metres long, 25 metres wide (remember the inner corridor width on the rings is 32 m). But how would the water behave? The ring circumference, depending on the deck the pool would be placed on, is always around 1.6 kilometres.
2) The current sports scene has the characters run two laps around the ring instead, which amounts to about 3.2 kilometres. This is just for warming up, so it takes most of them 12-14 minutes to complete. Except for one particularly unsportive character, who would need twice the time (I actually have some of the other characters lap him close to the end of his first round). The rest of the 90 minutes (slightly less than on the ISS, since most characters do spend quite some time on the rings with normal gravity each day) is spent on bodyweight exercises. The question here is: Would they run spinward, or anti-spinward? Would this make a difference, and if so, what would it look like?
3) While they are running around the ring, I describe what the rest of the gym floor looks like, including fields for various kinds of ball sports - basketball, among others. I imagined the field to be perpendicular to the ring circumference, i.e. across the 32 metres of the corridor width. I can already tell this way wise, since otherwise, the rules (of physics) would not be the same for the team playing spinward vs. the team playing antispinward. But now it might make a tactical difference whether you attack on the left vs. the right side of the field - and of course, simply during ever pass that occurs in the game. An actual basketball game is not described in the first book, but there will be one at the beginning of book 2.
4) At one point later in book one, the main character runs away from someone else on the lab ring - so she has to choose a direction: spinward or antispinward. What difference does this make (now talking about sprinting rather than long-distance running, i.e. potentially higher speeds)?
If she ran anti-spinward and vaulted forward (=jumped) at one point, would she partly fall back into the direction she came from?
If she ran spinward and jumped, would she smash into the floor coming up to meet her?
@Melbourne Guy : ...in your case for the more detailed behind-the-scenes info on who wrote what for Star Trek! ;)
Referring to your spoiler: That is awesome! I really want to make this plot-relevant now. Indeed, the security officers are supposed to be more experienced, and though quite a few of the rebels have or obtain weapons (including some of the security officers joining their cause), so far I was lacking a way to show this difference in expertise.DaveC426913 said:I can see a cool scenario where security teams are trained in AG marksmanship but rebels are not.
The protagonist was taught how to shoot by her father, by she never had to use it, and did not really want to, either. Perhaps her training only consisted of shooting across the width of the ring in a practice room, rather than up or down the ring.
Although it would not really make sense to set up the practice shooting rooms this way if this is so relevant for the actual training of real security officers.
"Losses" are relative in this regard; both sides have an incentive not to deliver lethal shots, since they all know they might be the last survivors of humanity. (Contact to Earth and the other inhabited worlds of the Sol system has been interrupted at this point - so far, I blame that on a solar storm, but given that this would only hit Earth, for example, while leaving the rest of the planets in the same system unharmed, I might need a better justification within the story.) "Losing" in these battles means "being stunned and captured by the commander's forces, which might lead to the captives becoming unwilling participants in the continuation of the human species".Talking about spinward and antispinward in general, I have a few more quick questions regarding sports on the ship. Especially since @Filip Larsen said it might actually be more plausible if some parts of the ship do not have full 1G (or 1.05 G even, in my case, so that the crew adapt to the gravity of Teegarden b). So far, there is only 1.05 G (on the rings) or 0.21 G (in the central pipe). Of course I am aware that it gradually shifts from the outside of the ring to the first deck of the ring, all the way up the elevator shaft on the spokes. But if there are sections that have something in between 1.05 G and 0.21 G, a lot more people would be affected by the need for a daily 2-2.5 hours exercise routine.
So far, someone spending all day on one of the rings could theoretically get by with just as much exercise as one would recommend on Earth, while someone working all day in the central pipe would have to do the 2-2.5 hours that ISS inhabitants do per day.
Here come the sports questions:
1) My initial mental image for the sports scene during the third chapter (to show how it is mandatory / necessary for survival on board) included swimming. So the first big question is: Would it be possible for the ship to have a swimming pool somewhere on the rings? Size-wise, this would not be a problem: Competitive swimming pools are 50 metres long, 25 metres wide (remember the inner corridor width on the rings is 32 m). But how would the water behave? The ring circumference, depending on the deck the pool would be placed on, is always around 1.6 kilometres.
2) The current sports scene has the characters run two laps around the ring instead, which amounts to about 3.2 kilometres. This is just for warming up, so it takes most of them 12-14 minutes to complete. Except for one particularly unsportive character, who would need twice the time (I actually have some of the other characters lap him close to the end of his first round). The rest of the 90 minutes (slightly less than on the ISS, since most characters do spend quite some time on the rings with normal gravity each day) is spent on bodyweight exercises. The question here is: Would they run spinward, or anti-spinward? Would this make a difference, and if so, what would it look like?
3) While they are running around the ring, I describe what the rest of the gym floor looks like, including fields for various kinds of ball sports - basketball, among others. I imagined the field to be perpendicular to the ring circumference, i.e. across the 32 metres of the corridor width. I can already tell this way wise, since otherwise, the rules (of physics) would not be the same for the team playing spinward vs. the team playing antispinward. But now it might make a tactical difference whether you attack on the left vs. the right side of the field - and of course, simply during ever pass that occurs in the game. An actual basketball game is not described in the first book, but there will be one at the beginning of book 2.
4) At one point later in book one, the main character runs away from someone else on the lab ring - so she has to choose a direction: spinward or antispinward. What difference does this make (now talking about sprinting rather than long-distance running, i.e. potentially higher speeds)?
If she ran anti-spinward and vaulted forward (=jumped) at one point, would she partly fall back into the direction she came from?
If she ran spinward and jumped, would she smash into the floor coming up to meet her?