[NGTM-1R]

The thing is, 10,000 people is a really small crew for a ship that large, when you consider that a modern carrier has a crew between 1.5 and 2 times that size, without its air group. So most of the work you describe is probably automated.

[StratComm]

A carrier does not have 20,000 crew.  That's rediculous.  2,000 maybe, but not 20,000.  Actually Nimitz class have about 3,200 crew, plus a little over 2000 air wing personnel.  Now Freespace ships are much larger so your point is still valid, but the real-world numbers are just... wrong.

[FireCrack]

Well, keep in mind that a large precentagfe of the interior of these ships would be dedicated to the massive fusion generators and beam cannons and storage.

[Grug]

They'd still be more anal about repairing a fractered hull. After all, it's not like they can just use buckets to tip the vacuum back into space.

[Liberator]

Originally posted by FireCrack
Well, keep in mind that a large precentagfe of the interior of these ships would be dedicated to the massive fusion generators and beam cannons and storage.

You're assuming that the fusion reactors are huge, because the current ones are.  However, current research indicates that we can't build a reactor of that syle in sufficient scale to create a self-sustaining reaction.  However there is much promise in acoustic resonance(or is it dissonance) reactions.  These require much less space than the mammoth tokamaks you're probably thinking of.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
Gunnery Control is funny, though. I would have expected something like Main Battery Control...

You rang?

[FireCrack]

I'm not drawing any assumptions from current technology.
I am however drawing the assumption that cap ships have more than one fusion tomak or whatever they use, many of them in fact. Add that to whatever massive plasma engines and beam canons and... well you get the picture.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Charismatic
Id have to agree with most of you, except, i dont remember the female voice and the male ani.

GTT Agrippa, in the mission you have to defend the Aquitaine, before you were assigned to the Blue Lions.

The Mission is called Dunkerque.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Liberator
However there is much promise in acoustic resonance(or is it dissonance) reactions.  These require much less space than the mammoth tokamaks you're probably thinking of.

If's you're talking about sonoluminescence that's proved to be unrepeatable by every single other attempt to replicate the original guys work.

In fact until someone proves otherwise the whole thing is as big a load of crap as the whole cold fusion thing.
The proof that the team had achieved fusion was that they were detecting neutrons during the experiment. How did he get the bubbles needed for sonoluminescence? With a neutron source! Pretty easy to figure out where the neutrons were actually coming from.

Here's a more detailed explaination

[Unknown Target]

What.....?

[karajorma]

If you're talking to me basically Liberator said that there was progress in a field that would lead to small fusion engines.

I replied that if it was the same field I was thinking of it was a load of crap.

Easier to follow?

[Charismatic]

Thanks@topace. Il check it out.

Tho this is off subject, i remember a discussion in some thread about all the little 'hints' and bloopers in Freespace2. Like the instalation Bucadea (sp?) that the Iceni was in, after it blowing up, you can target it and its name is changed? Also someone said to scan the cargo leaving capella. (Havent done yet..) What other bloopers or hints can you guys think of. I personally havent seemed to notice them..

[Kie99]

The GTVA being Roman and the NTF being celts, Bodaecia led the Celts of Iceni, and the mission where you try to catch Bosch is called the Romans' Blunder