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MemberOvomorphApr-06-2012 9:28 AMSpecifications
USCSS Nostromo (Lockheed Martin CM-88B "Juggernaut-class" Starfreighter)
Complement: 7 (3 officers + 4 crew members)
Displacement: 50,000 t (Standard); 45,000 t (Light); 63,000 t (Full Load)
Dimensions: Length: 1,095 ft (334 m); Beam 705 ft (215 m); Draft 320 ft (98 m)
Velocity: 0.42 LYSD (Unladen) / 0.12 LYSD (Towing heavy cargo)
Acceleration:
27.9 s Rest - Onset Critical Momentum
8.9 s Onset Critical Momentum - Hyperdrive Engage
6.5 s 1c - 24c
8.5 s 24c - 68c
15.5 s 58c - 153 c
Endurance: 14 Months (Standard) / 24 Months (Maximum)
Primary Power System: One (1) Laratel 2.8 terawatt WF-15 fusion reactor
Faster Than Light Propulsion: Four (4) Yutani T7A NLS stellar drive towers
Sublight Propulsion: Two (2) Rolls Royce N66 Cyclone thrust tunnels w/ Bi-Polar vectoring; 7,290,000 short tons force (64.9 giganewtons) thrust each
Two (2) Weyland L46 chemical maneuvering engines; 850,000 short tons force (7.6 GN) thrust each
One (1) Yutani J38 auxiliary thruster module /w Two (2) Lockmart TL-30 thruster groups
Primary Logic System: MU-TH-R 182 2.1 terabyte AI Mainframe w/ 2.0 terabyte MU-TH-R 146 Backup Mainframe
Operating System: OAM (Overmonitoring Address Matrix) Release 2.2 with 2120 Patch
Sensors:
Two (2) 2-Meter aperture telescopes capable of optical, spectrographic and infrared resolution
Gas Chromatograph
Centimetric Navigation and Landing Radar
Synthetic Aperture Ground-Mapping Radar
Hyperspace Mass Counter
Weapon Systems: (None)
Embarked Craft: Two (2) Starcub-Class Shuttlecraft
The design of the Nostromo is credited to illustrators Ron Cobb and Chris Foss. Ultimately Chris Foss' highly organic visions of the spacecraft were discarded in favor of Cobb's NASA-like utilitarian renderings. Ridley Scott made his own design contributions as well, adding most of the cathedralesque "refinery" portion, which dominates the craft on screen.
Beneath Cobb's blueprint elevations of a late Nostromo rendering, he specified:
BASIC LOCKHEED CM 88B BISON TRANSPORTER FRAME
MODIFIED AND FITTED WITH A YUTANI T7A NLS STELLAR DRIVE
THE ORIGINAL SATURN J3000 ENGINES HAVE BEEN REPLACED
BY 2 ROLLS ROYCE NGG CYCLONE THRUST TUNNELS WITH
BI-POLAR VECTORING FOR MID LINE LIFT FUNCTION
EACH POWER PLANT DEVELOPING 7,250,000 TONS THRUST
(14,500,000,000 POUNDS) GIVING A HIGH IMPULSE TOTAL
OF 14,460,000 TONS. (The Book of Alien, Titan Books 1979)
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finster1018
MemberOvomorphApr-07-2012 9:04 AMPrimary Logic System: MU-TH-R 182 2.1 terabyte AI Mainframe w/ 2.0 terabyte MU-TH-R 146 Backup Mainframe
Only 2.1 terabytes?- my desktop has 4 Tb storage. I figured we'd be speaking in terms of zetta or yottabytes by this time. And what happed to cloudcomputing, why the need for mainframe - how bout virutalization and distributed computing? I thought everything got sent back to the network anyhow. We are talking about 50 years AFTER Prometheus.

Zedwardson
MemberOvomorphApr-08-2012 2:30 PMActually mainframes are still a big business even today. They are used when you have to have constant up-time big time support. Also, being a ship out in the middle of nowhere with a crew sleeping, you would want a mainframe type computer, as no one is there to "reboot" it if something goes wrong.
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