[nubbles526]

How the hell do they keep the crew and staff of the Bastion or Aquitane to stay on their feets? I think they have some sort of magnets attached to their shoes or something...

[NGTM-1R]

GTA/GTVA have artifical gravity tech. :V: has said as much before.

[Jeff Vader]

Yeah. The same kind they have on Star Trek and Star Wars. Just believe it and don't think too much about it.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Someone add a "gravity generator" subsystem to Terran and Vasudan vessels. When it's destroyed ...
Pity that you can't take a look inside ships.

[nubbles526]

Well, can be done is PCS quite easily

But I am very curious. Remember there was a cutscene where the GTA marines went inside the Azarel? Well, I remember that activated something...and I wonder if they use that for inside Cap Ships.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

It's quite clear that GTVA vessels use artificial gravity. Lots of things are lying on the ground, especially in the Bastion main hall.
But it's possible that we use only a part of the Earth gravity: that small crane doesn't look like it could lift an Ursa at normal gravity levels.
The Shivans don't use gravity, and that's why those marines needed magnetic boots. "We" could be using them as well in the capships, to compensate for the reduced gravity levels.

[nubbles526]

It's quite clear that GTVA vessels use artificial gravity. Lots of things are lying on the ground, especially in the Bastion main hall.
But it's possible that we use only a part of the Earth gravity: that small crane doesn't look like it could lift an Ursa at normal gravity levels.
The Shivans don't use gravity, and that's why those marines needed magnetic boots. "We" could be using them as well in the capships, to compensate for the reduced gravity levels.

You really ARE a FreeSpace Freak

The shivans looked cool in the Hallfight.

[Mobius]

...or in the Aquitaine's main hall. Look at the spacecraft on the left and the crane that moves to take it away...

And do support ships use a magnetical system to reload?

[Woolie Wool]

It's quite clear that GTVA vessels use artificial gravity. Lots of things are lying on the ground, especially in the Bastion main hall.
But it's possible that we use only a part of the Earth gravity: that small crane doesn't look like it could lift an Ursa at normal gravity levels.
The Shivans don't use gravity, and that's why those marines needed magnetic boots. "We" could be using them as well in the capships, to compensate for the reduced gravity levels.

The Azrael transport clearly did have some artificial gravity. The Shivans landed on the floor when they jumped, and the marines fell when the Shivans kill them. It must've had something like 1/4 Earth gravity.

[admiral_wolf]

Don't big ships when they are moving generate their own gravity field due to inertia, or is this comicbook/cartoon physics coming back to haunt me?

As for support ships, I noticed on the Centaurs, they have a sort of black and yellow alternating circle pattern on both the upper and lower docking area.  Could it be possible that the Centaurs have a magnetic locking system when docking with fighters/bombers, and the circle patterns being doors?  That could possbly be the explanation behind the slight delay I've noticed with the being told rearming is complete on the HUD, and the Centaur pilot telling you that you are free to go.

With regards to m'learned friend's Shivan theory.  It is believed that the Shivans were wearing some sort of exo-skeleton body armour.  This may/may not have included some sort of mechanism for keeping our spidery friends on the floor instead of floating around rather stupidly in Zero-G.

[blowfish]

Don't big ships when they are moving generate their own gravity field due to inertia, or is this comicbook/cartoon physics coming back to haunt me?

Must be.  Only rotating objects will generate gravity.

[Flipside]

I've always wondered, in low gravity situations, wouldn't the magnetic boots be as much to stop the gun recoil sending you into the wall behind you as to facilitate moving?

[Snail]

And do support ships use a magnetical system to reload?

A magnetic stasis field IIRC.

[ns161]

Well if the ship was moving and you were suspended in space (i.e. NOT moving) the ship would move around you and you'd eventually be slammed up against whatever surface finally connected with you

 But that it's really gravity, its just...the ship moving around you.  But weight is related to acceleration.

The reason a person feels "heavier" in a car that's accelerating is because weight is directly related to that acceleration (im thinking back to high school physics here but I think the equation is w=m*a [weight = mass*acceleration]).  But that isn't really gravity and it wouldn't be useful at all since you'd be constantly changing whatever surface you were "standing" on why what direction the ship moved.

[blowfish]

w=m*a [weight = mass*acceleration]

No, force = mass*acceleration.  There's a difference.

[Nuke]

How the hell do they keep the crew and staff of the Bastion or Aquitane to stay on their feets? I think they have some sort of magnets attached to their shoes or something...

magnetic fields in the floor and of steel buttons on the uniforms?

[WMCoolmon]

Not to mention unhealthy amounts of iron in their diets.

[General Battuta]

Don't big ships when they are moving generate their own gravity field due to inertia, or is this comicbook/cartoon physics coming back to haunt me?

Must be.  Only rotating objects will generate gravity.

Nope, he's right: all objects under acceleration generate gravity, since gravity and acceleration are identical and indistinguishable. A ship under constant velocity would not produce gravity; acceleration is required.

However, Freespace ships use artificial gravity, as others here have demonstrated. Acceleration, whether rotation (i.e. stuff spinning) or translation, is not required.

[karajorma]

Can we stop talking about rotating objects generating gravity please? They really don't. They generate a force on an object due to conservation of momentum but it's most certainly not gravity.

w=m*a [weight = mass*acceleration]

No, force = mass*acceleration.  There's a difference.

His equation is correct. Your weight is the result of mass multiplied by any accelerations you might be experiencing. That's why you measure weight in newtons (the SI unit for force) rather than kilograms in scientific situations.

[WMCoolmon]

Slugs ftl.