Misuzu or Crystal: Which one of you had to fly inside the Hertak flag ship? I have conflicting information on which one it was.
Whichever of you it was... did you find it easy to navigate inside that thing? How long did it take for you to destroy the reactors, and how much time did you have to spare before it exploded?
"That was me. The Aestival's controls are not easy on the Terran mind.
It was pretty hard, its a good thing I just had to follow the computer generated waypoints, it would have been easy to get lost in that large, dark ship. After destroying the reactors, I just barely managed to jump into subspace before it exploded. This would have been plain impossible for a Terran to pull off."
Dawn: Was it difficult to transition to fighters without actual transparent cockpit canopy? How exactly does that work? We saw that one mission with the early encounter with Fur'Angle where windows proved their value, but in normal use, how does the visual environment system in the windowless cockpits compare with actually seeing out with your own eyes? Resolution, response time? Does the visual environment system offer additional features such as adjusting the observation spectrum from visible light to, say, infra-red or ultraviolet, or even radio frequencies (microwave frequencies would be good for visual detection of radar sources) or x-ray/gamma ray wavelengths (which could be used to detect reactors, both working and breached).
"The step from the Ray I to Mk III was pretty big in that regard. These windowless cockpits actually offer a lot more visibility, they have all sorts of visual aid. I'm not really that well informed on the technical details though...
Of course, compared to Infi's neural interface everything is primitive."
"If you'll allow me on the technicals.
The standard Cleo-132 cockpit found in most LSF strike craft these days have three screens capable of handling resolutions up to 32768x32768. We stopped bothering with response times several decades ago. It's all somewhere in the range of 0.0001ms these days.
In addition to a 80x zoom, the cockpit indeed has the additional features you listed. While the advanced sensor variant can also pick up subspace waves and a whole list of extra things.
There is also the option to have 'screen in screen' windows, allowing the pilot to track up to 10 different targets (friend or foe) in smaller view screens. And it alerts the pilot when a hostile is targeting him."
Cyrvans: What? You're not wearing full vacuum seal space suits in combat? Do your cockpits eject as a whole, sealed system? What sort of contingencies do you have for situations where your pilots are exposed to vacuum? It's not just the integrity of your cockpit construction, it's a question about life support redundancy. What happens if one of your ships has a reactor failure? Does the life support run on its own energy system? What if there's a failure in the life support system itself? You could lose the atmosphere even if the ship is technically totally intact... Soyuz 11 is a good historical example.
"Yes, the whole cockpit ejects and the life support has its own power supply.
In the case the cockpit itself is somehow breached there is an emergency system build within our flight suits which projects an energy field around the head and if need be, around the whole body but that drains the power at a far faster rate."
