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Hello folks. You guys know me as the guy who is into sci-fi. What is more interesting (or boring), depending on who you ask, than a space freighter?
So guys and gals, how would you design a space freighter? What would its limitations be, and the purpose of a cargo spaceship? What weapons would the ship have, if any? Would it be more efficient just to have a faster multipurpose spaceship that is a jack-of-all-trades instead of a dedicated, but slow freighter for smaller deliveries?
Background:
In my sci-fi universe, different species use freighters to deliver supplies between star systems that are too energy intensive to materialize, or for species that lack materialization technologies. Some freighters of certain alien species are fast, but the majority of freight ships are slow, as the energy required to bend space around a massive ship increases exponentially. One freighter, built in 2092, the Yanara class ship was built by the Xa'na species. Of course, I do not have any art for a space freight ship, as I suck at drawing, but the Yanara would be a long ship around 650 dist'als long (548 ft long, or 167 m long), have a slender frame in the middle where cargo pods could attach to, a detachable front section for the crew, and a rear section dedicated to propulsion. The Yanara is modular, so if any part (such as the graviton displacement drive) needs replacement, the ship can be taken apart, just as building cranes on Earth can be taken apart, or made taller.
Speed:
The Yanara is a slow freighter, as faster graviton drive technology was lost in the 2070s on Xanadu due to a ban on interstellar travel placed in 2065, just three short years after faster-than-light (FTL) interstellar travel was invented. This ban was put in place as a rogue robotic spaceprobe made by the Xa'na themselves in late 2062 decided to turn on their creators in the mid-2060s. The freighter could skirt this faster-than-light ban, as it was built in 2092 for the sole purpose of placing scanners and infrastructure in the outer Hesal system. These scanners could scan for the rogue probe's army of other probes, as the rogue probe was capable of limited self-replication. As long as the freighter stays within a two light-year boundary from Hesal, the ship can use FTL travel, provided the maximum speed is limited to discourage interstellar travel.
Yanara specs:
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About Xanadu (Hesal III):
This is the Xa'na homeworld, Hesal III, more commonly known as Xanadu. It is an earth-like planet located 3 quadrillion miles (4.8 quadrillion km, or 507 light-years) from Earth in the constellation of Cancer, and has an orbital period around its host star, Hesal, in roughly 363.9 earth-days (almost 366-367 Xanadu days). It is only 200 miles smaller than Earth, and slightly cooler by a degree or two.
So guys and gals, how would you design a space freighter? What would its limitations be, and the purpose of a cargo spaceship? What weapons would the ship have, if any? Would it be more efficient just to have a faster multipurpose spaceship that is a jack-of-all-trades instead of a dedicated, but slow freighter for smaller deliveries?
Background:
In my sci-fi universe, different species use freighters to deliver supplies between star systems that are too energy intensive to materialize, or for species that lack materialization technologies. Some freighters of certain alien species are fast, but the majority of freight ships are slow, as the energy required to bend space around a massive ship increases exponentially. One freighter, built in 2092, the Yanara class ship was built by the Xa'na species. Of course, I do not have any art for a space freight ship, as I suck at drawing, but the Yanara would be a long ship around 650 dist'als long (548 ft long, or 167 m long), have a slender frame in the middle where cargo pods could attach to, a detachable front section for the crew, and a rear section dedicated to propulsion. The Yanara is modular, so if any part (such as the graviton displacement drive) needs replacement, the ship can be taken apart, just as building cranes on Earth can be taken apart, or made taller.
Speed:
The Yanara is a slow freighter, as faster graviton drive technology was lost in the 2070s on Xanadu due to a ban on interstellar travel placed in 2065, just three short years after faster-than-light (FTL) interstellar travel was invented. This ban was put in place as a rogue robotic spaceprobe made by the Xa'na themselves in late 2062 decided to turn on their creators in the mid-2060s. The freighter could skirt this faster-than-light ban, as it was built in 2092 for the sole purpose of placing scanners and infrastructure in the outer Hesal system. These scanners could scan for the rogue probe's army of other probes, as the rogue probe was capable of limited self-replication. As long as the freighter stays within a two light-year boundary from Hesal, the ship can use FTL travel, provided the maximum speed is limited to discourage interstellar travel.
Yanara specs:
Graviton Displacement Drive
Hello folks. I came up with this cool sci-fi drive system for spacecraft. It will not work in real life, but I want to use it in a sci-fi plot. I asked an AI to explain it. Prompt: Explain how the fictional graviton displacement drive works on faster-than-light spacecraft, and how it...
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About Xanadu (Hesal III):
This is the Xa'na homeworld, Hesal III, more commonly known as Xanadu. It is an earth-like planet located 3 quadrillion miles (4.8 quadrillion km, or 507 light-years) from Earth in the constellation of Cancer, and has an orbital period around its host star, Hesal, in roughly 363.9 earth-days (almost 366-367 Xanadu days). It is only 200 miles smaller than Earth, and slightly cooler by a degree or two.
