It's anime, which will have 90% of you clicking the close button right now. But for the other 10%, you really have to see Starship Operators. Talk about a revelation. A graduating class of cadets have a training mission on their planet's latest addition to the navy, but while they are out in space, an expansionist empire declares war on their homeworld, and the pacifist government capitulates. Their command crew abandon ship as per the conquerors' demands, but the cadets decide to keep the ship and fight on. To finance their campaign, they invite a TV crew aboard and turn the exercise into a reality TV show.
But the surprising thing was the attention to detail and real world physics. The ship has a rotating wheel inside to provide a gravity residential section, but the rest of the ship is in zero-G, and changes in course and thrust affect the vessel. The only magic tech is the FTL drive and sensors/comms, pretty much everything else is extrapolated from modern tech. One early episode sees a repair crew on the hull affected by a solar flare with eight minutes to get inside.
A later episode has them facing an enemy 'space submarine' a ship designed for stealth attack, low mass, one weapon, and pitch black. Their sensors are down and they have to find it visually using astronomy. They have between 5 and 10 days to do it. Distances and travel times are realistic in this show. Even something as trivial as the coriolis force in the showers in the wheel are represented.
But the surprising thing was the attention to detail and real world physics. The ship has a rotating wheel inside to provide a gravity residential section, but the rest of the ship is in zero-G, and changes in course and thrust affect the vessel. The only magic tech is the FTL drive and sensors/comms, pretty much everything else is extrapolated from modern tech. One early episode sees a repair crew on the hull affected by a solar flare with eight minutes to get inside.
A later episode has them facing an enemy 'space submarine' a ship designed for stealth attack, low mass, one weapon, and pitch black. Their sensors are down and they have to find it visually using astronomy. They have between 5 and 10 days to do it. Distances and travel times are realistic in this show. Even something as trivial as the coriolis force in the showers in the wheel are represented.
