FireFly Tech Manual
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I would love to help. The whole idea in general is definitely very interesting. My area of expertise would be graphic design. So, if you need any schematatic type drawings or images, I'd love to help.
- Dan
Book is a badass.
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I don't always have AIM open, so drop me a line here:
unchartedoutlaw@gmail.com
-Taylor
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okay according to the new official site that gives some names to the various parts of Serenity the engines (I assume the ones on the pylons on either side) are called:
Trace Compression Block Engines.
The main drive is called a photon reaction drive.
Strangly no mention of a Radion Accelerator Core... Unless thats the powerplant?
Theres also a 'gravity ring' which is either the spinning 'douhnut' behind the crew dome or the backend of the drive section just beyond that (website isn't that clear).
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well, that throws a monkey wrench into things, dont it?
thanks for this though; i guess well hash this out some more later.
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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore
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As far as the gravity thing goes it dispenses with the wrench and just throws in a whole family of monkeys...
The thruster engines might need a bit of a re-work, and the main drive too, but as far as I'm concerned the Tenth crewmember documentary says the main drive uses fusion. This photon reaction drive is fairly meaningless unless its some sort of tradename? Any mechanism that primarly uses photons surely wouldn't produce the kind of acceleration we see in FireFly.
That and you wouldn't get that glow, you'd only get that glow and gas swirling effect from plasma? But I digress from the point of this thread...
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So how are we gonna do this?
Assign different parts of the guide to different people?
- Dan
Wash: Psychic? Sounds like something out of science fiction.
Zoë: We live on a spaceship, dear.
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We've been thrashing concepts out over AIM, and we'll probably get specific sections to write up between however wants to try, how ever it works really, open to suggestions.
Any one who wants to help with working out the concepts give us a shout (post).
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Was thinking, I got webspace so I can share the manual development files there.
We'll need to assign different sections to different people, like one person does the text for the engines/powerplant, another computer/flight systems and so on...
We'll also need to assign different responcibillities to different people, like one or two people would need to do schematics and diagrams, another would need to be the editor, someone else the website etc.
I'll think some more and post specific section titles and jobs later.
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I might be able to help with some conceptual stuff, but editing would be my specialty. I might lose track of this thread over the weekend, would someone email me about duties and so forth?
-Taylor
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UnchartedOutlaw:
That sounds great thanks. Will send an e-mail (if) anything is workded out.
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