The Viridian

[Dryson]

After the battle with Detmer and Ryn, the damaged Viridian warped away. If dilithium explodes at the moment a warp core goes to warp speed, then why didn't the Viridian explode as well. I don't remember Admiral Vance talking about the Orion's having advanced warp cores that mitigated the effects of The Burn.

So, what new type of warp core does the Viridian have that allows it to warp around space?

 

[valkyrie013]

Huh? Warp works just fine with dilithium. The signal that caused the dilithium to go explodey was a one time thing ... So it's safe to warp around.. If you have enough dilithium.

 

[Tosk]

The signal that caused the dilithium to go explodey was a one time thing

Signal that caused the dilithium to go temporarily inert, that is.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Signal that caused the dilithium to go temporarily inert, that is.

Inerty

 

[Shawnster]

The Burn seems to be a 1 time event. It's not something that keeps causing havoc.

So, ships can warp away and use dilithium as designed. It seems, though, that the remaining dilithium cannot be recrystallized. Once it's used up, it's gone.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

Booker's ship has a dilithium recrystallizer, so they can do that thing.

The target on the Viridian was the weapons system generator. It is interesting that Ryn said it was near the aft nacelle, implying that there is another nacelle somewhere on the ship.

 

[Timo]

Well, that ship is all nacelle. That is, it has three. What these nacelles happen to be housing is not established. There being an engine in there is not necessary as such.

What the ship also has is a "gunwale", which is odder. For one, her guns appear turreted, not hiding behind a wale... For another, there's no discernible structure there that we could consider such a wale. But Ryn does instruct Detmer to fire on such a structure, and she subsequently strafes the length of the top surface, which is sorta intuitive.

Or since the gunwale "meets" the aft nacelles yet nothing visible "meets" the multiple parts of the ship, perhaps "gunwale" is the proper name for the invisible structure that surrounds the ship's components and keeps her together?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Well, that ship is all nacelle. That is, it has three. What these nacelles happen to be housing is not established. There being an engine in there is not necessary as such.

What the ship also has is a "gunwale", which is odder. For one, her guns appear turreted, not hiding behind a wale... For another, there's no discernible structure there that we could consider such a wale. But Ryn does instruct Detmer to fire on such a structure, and she subsequently strafes the length of the top surface, which is sorta intuitive.

Or since the gunwale "meets" the aft nacelles yet nothing visible "meets" the multiple parts of the ship, perhaps "gunwale" is the proper name for the invisible structure that surrounds the ship's components and keeps her together?

I don't think Gunwale applies to Space Ships that don't have some sort of deck or railing.

 

[Timo]

Well, here we see it does. Why would Ryn choose the expression that has a specific meaning in English? Are these space gunwales analogous to the real deal?

- The wall behind which the guns are? But we see the big guns and they are in turrets. Doesn't mean there wouldn't be small ones lining the upper and perhaps lower surfaces of the hull.
- The wall that keeps the decks from being awash? Basically a navigational deflector, then? Or a forcefield bubble that keeps space air away so that you don't need goggles outside?
- ???

The ship has lots of terracing, but nothing that would look like a wall or fence...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tosk]

It is interesting that Ryn said it was near the aft nacelle, implying that there is another nacelle somewhere on the ship.

Or he was quoting Alt-Khan for some reason.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

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[valkyrie013]

Its with Life support thats always behind the aft nacelle...

Yeah, seen the battleship turrets on the hull, was like.. Huh? Just because something looks cool, doesn't mean it works on a starship..

 

[fireproof78]

Well, as I've learned this week sometimes cool is cool.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Yeah, seen the battleship turrets on the hull, was like.. Huh? Just because something looks cool, doesn't mean it works on a starship..

It works in Star Wars, I'm sure that's where they copied their inspiration.

 

[Timo]

It didn't make all that much sense in SW originally, either: the visible turrets of the big bad Star Destroyer were mounted flanking the base of the superstructure, with very limited cones of fire (they essentially could only fire classic broadsides), and there were no visible bow cannon (a bummer for chase scenes!) or ventral cannon (too bad when one would expect the Evil Empire to bombard planets "below").

At least the placements on the Viridian nicely cover multiple angles. And since our heroes twice identify the weapons as photon torpedoes, which generally emerge from "tubes", we have our excuse for the emplacements looking different from yer standard death ray ones.

Timo Saloniemi