 June 23, 2009 - 7:42pm | Shouldn't Pion be part of "my own creation" ? And a chemical drive can reach .01c given enough fuel. It would be a rediculous amount of fuel, making the ship nothing but a bridge, drives, and fuel tank...but it could do it. It would also take the same rediculous amount of fuel to slow it down again in the next system. |
 June 23, 2009 - 8:24pm | No. Pion engines were in Starfrontiersman Issue #7 View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
June 23, 2009 - 11:01pm | IIRC, plasma drives and SC/I drives were in a sidebar of my starfighter article in that same issue. There's a lot of stuff in StarFrontiersman. 100% of it is submitted by people that follow the "my own creation" route... |
June 24, 2009 - 6:12am | ION engines are plasma drives and are used on the spaceshuttle, as are colloid thrusters, used by satallites. Also, pion engines are getting used by several people, so could be considered common enough to be included in the list. But point taken. I couldn't find any mention of SC/I drives in the magazines. What are they? Do you remember the issue? View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
June 24, 2009 - 2:35pm | I don't recall where it was (or if it was) featured in SFman. I could swear it was in teh starfighter article as Bill copy/cut/pasted my "what's new" list from my webpage when he converted my fighter craft into an article. In a nutshell, SC/I is a SuperCharged Ion drive. SC/I driven craft add 1 to the ADF over a standard ion driven craft, and they use a more expensive fuel. |
 June 28, 2009 - 11:21am | Even though I'm voting for "Pion"(since it is, after all, my own creation), I agree with Shadow that it should come under the heading of my own creation. Make sense? "You're everything that's base in humanity," Cochrane continued. "Drawing up strict, senseless rules for the sole reason of putting you at the top and excluding anyone you say doesn't belong or fit in, for no other reason than just because you say so." —Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stephens, Federation |
