The Derelict Compass?
January 15, 2012
so it turns out the derelict is just basically a big you know what waiting to get you know what'd !!!
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January 15, 2012
Excellent work ya'll cant get enough.THanks BIo- for handling that walter beyatch... sincerly
.ChumB.
January 16, 2012
yeah the ship is not aerodynamic but do spaceships need to be aerodynamic? i mean sure airplanes do but not space ships
January 17, 2012
Spacecraft only have to possess aerodynamic properties if they enter an atmosphere such as the Shuttle did.
Science Fiction takes great pains to avoid this. An airplane uses control surfaces such as ailerons for rolling, rudders for yawing and elevators to pitch. A spacecraft uses reaction control thrusters for the same maneuvers. There is no need for it to even remotely look like an aircraft. A classic example is the Apollo Lunar Module.
Another thing SciFi always gets wrong is firing thrusters in the direction of orbit to break orbit and enter a planet's atmosphere. All that will do is put you in a higher orbit. To break orbit, you have to retro-fire.
Hope that helps.