OoG - Where'd all that gravity come from?

POSTED BY: Xarr
UPDATED: Saturday, July 24, 2004 22:47
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SLOWSMURF

Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:49 AM

On Bushwhacked just remember if they can control gravity, it would be a simple matter to have the air locked realigned so they could walk into the other ship regardless of how it docked. Would be quite a useful function to have I think.

LTNOWIS

Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:02 PM

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When the ship is damaged, the power doesn't go out, except for the engine, and the life support machines that are powered by it.

Didnt the life support broke because of the explosion? Mal sayd something like "but we still have life support?", then Kaylee says something like "No, it must have got broke by the blast", and then Mal says "So what are be breathing?".

Dang, how could I have forgotten that!

But wait, then why would the life support machinery get fixed just because they fixed the engine? Thoughts?

SUPERFLY

Friday, July 23, 2004 12:41 AM

It's my understanding that the explosion knocked out several important systems on the ship, life support being one of them. It seems to me that other systems were not "knocked out" or "knocked off line," for instance, gravity, radio and lights.

I think they simply couldn't restart the downed systems without the power of the engines, and they couldn't restart the engines without a replacement for the broken part. However, any systems not originally knocked out were still functional.

Am I remembering this right?

THEREALME

Friday, July 23, 2004 1:11 AM

I think it was the EMERGENCY life support that got damaged by the explosion. The regular life support was fine, but had no power.

The Real Me

LTNOWIS

Friday, July 23, 2004 2:06 AM

Oh, I see. That actually makes a lot of sense. Apparantly summer vacation isn't good for my brain.

DIXIEFLATLINE

Friday, July 23, 2004 2:29 AM

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Originally posted by THEREALME:
I think it was the EMERGENCY life support that got damaged by the explosion. The regular life support was fine, but had no power.

Bingo -- primary life support runs off the engine, emergency life support is a separate system that was damaged by the explosion. Presumably there's an emergency backup for the artificial gravity that did kick in properly, unless the agrav system involves Really Big Capacitors that take a long time to bleed off.

Actually, it might have made for an interesting F/X shot to have everything and everyone come floating off the floor for a second after the explosion, then plop back down as the emergency agrav kicks in.

SHARPSHOOTER

Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:47 PM

I thought it would help if i pointed out that the entire rest of the Verse seems to have a low opinion of the ship Serenity. Implying the this model or prehaps even ALL of the Firefly class vessels are not exactly 'top notch'.

i.e., one of the many flaws of such a vessel could perhaps be the scewed priority of gravity over other functions of the ship if damage (such as the type sustained in OoG) were to occur. similar to airbags that blow off peoples heads. Just something the manufacturer can get away with.

Perhaps?

"Be sure to call him sir, he likes that."

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