Do your ships have artificial gravity, Veeky Forums?

Do your ships have artificial gravity, Veeky Forums?

yeah, because that was the aesthetic i was going for

no, they're in the ocean

Yup. In fact it turns out that artificial gravity is easy once you figure out the underlying math and can meet the power requirements.

Does centrifugal force count as artificial gravity?

Yes.

>His spaceships are not big enough to afford a rotating section that doesnt get people dizzy.

Only under thrust :^)

No, any ship capable of faster than light travel is by necessity large enough to contain a habitation ring. Most are small, with a rotation that provides the equivalent of less than a quarter gravity and are designed to hold officer's quarters, rec rooms, mess halls, and gyms. Most time spent on duty by crew is spent in zero-gravity. Service tours are managed in such a way as to minimize bone and muscle degeneration by circulating crew between ships and "Dirt Duty" on planet bound shipyards and bases.

Only one species known to mankind has developed artificial gravity, a product of layering a bulkhead with specialized metallic alloys laced with exotic materials and powered with a constant electrical current to cause a limited and very weak warping of local spacetime to create an artificial gravitational field. The tech itself is a miniaturization of a new kind of thruster the aliens have developed, and so far the only real function the gravity plating has served is to impress the hell out of the human first contact team. Its expense means that even if they were to share the tech, it would probably not be used on most starships. As it is, the species that produced the tech has no need for individual luxuries and their bodies are largely immune to the debilitating effects of zero-G, so the only use they really have for it is to inconvenience intruders and impress foreign dignitaries and tourists, as such, the only ship they have used it in so far is the one hallway of the one ship that they invited the human diplomats into.

Also, because starships accelerate at relativistic speeds using a variety of specialized sublight drives that function as reaction-less drives, there is no sensation of gravity due to acceleration. Humans project a microscopic singularity ahead of the ship in order to have it fall forward, with most ships capable of several thousand gravitates of acceleration. The another species purchased human tech shortly after first contact, the species that just recently made actual artificial gravity sort of "surf" on gravitational waves, allowing them to accelerate towards or away from major sources of gravitation, including singularities projected by human ships, another species teleport the entire ship by a planck length at a time, millions or even billions of times per second, and another is held by a device that extends outwards from a fourth spacial dimension to hold the ship, allowing the ship to warp localized spacetime by expanding or contracting the extra-dimensional drive component. In all cases, the only time the ship's crew feels motion is when firing a mass driver or missile, or when it is hit by something, or when firing maneuvering thrusters.

>artificial gravity

What do you mean ''artificial gravity''? Gravity is gravity. What's artificial heat like? Or artificial radiaton?

yes because fuck hard sci-fi in the ass

>What's artificial heat like?
the kind you get from a campfire

are you retarded?

Would a genuine retard be able to give a coherent answer to such a question?

(don't worry user, at least one other person on this board sees your point)

How about thrust?

Only the rotation/acceleration kind.

I wish I wasn't so autistic, desu. Even when writing 'soft' scifi where the technology exists, I still can't justify stacking the decks like a boat, rather than a skyscraper. You're already thrusting in that direction, why make your supertech's job even harder?

Belly landers.

>he doesn't take the third option

>implying I don't

Artificial exotic matter that produces gravitational effects that do not occur naturally

Any gravity that isn't coming from just mass warping space. Such as the effective gravity of a rotating ring or "Gravity generator" type machine. Lining the floor of you spaceship with ultra dense bananium wouldn't be artificial gravity.

>why make your supertech's job even harder?
Because fuck those lazy bastards, that's why.

Isn't the rotating ring just innertia?
Hardly makes it have to do anything with gravity.

Yes but it points upwards so the crew don't get mashed into the floor when the engines start.

Yes. Hence, artificial gravity. It's not actually gravity, but it works just like it.

Nope, real gravity.

Collected in an environmentally sound manner and stored in recyclable bottles.

Yup. It and inertial dampening are intertwined, so it's pretty unavoidable. Also, aesthetics.

Space stations don't have to go anywhere, so they usually still spin to save money though.

>artifice
The kind that's created directly and immediately by the works of people.

Is there a conveniently located vending machine on every deck?

>Does a force push you downwards?
If yes it is either regular or artificial gravity.

Yes, one-way gravity magic is a staple on most spacecraft. Though nearly all spacecraft are designed to still function in zero-G if something were to happen to the station's gravity mage, it's regarded as unpleasant and a low level emergency. Nonmagical spacecraft, of course, are suicidal invitations for the aetherdwellers to tear your vessel open like a tin can and eat you.

>Hardly makes it have to do anything with gravity.
General relativity is based on the idea that acceleration and the effects of a gravitational field are indistinguishable without the help of an outside observer.

Yup, but I use the Robert Forward trick of generating gravitational fields like magnetic fields.
Unobtanium is the best thing there is.

Sure, but it wouldn't make sense to do that anyway, unless you're partial to spaghettification.

Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham please stay

Yes, but its tremendously expensive to outfit an entire ship with it.

Civilian ships generally only have 'gravity beds' which help provide enough pull on you during sleep to mitigate some long term health problems. Otherwise they have to make do with thrust.

Military ships make heavy use of artificial gravity, but its mostly used as a form of inertial cancelling, allowing the crew to function at high thrust without being pancaked.

In any case, you cant have the gravity on during FTL plotting or your jump distance drops to a few inches. Plotting FTL jumps can take days or weeks depending on how far you are going, and you have to re-plot your jump every time from scratch. So even military ships have to make do with zero g frequently.

>Lining the floor of you spaceship with ultra dense bananium wouldn't be artificial gravity
that's kinda ineffective way to do it
you need to move around huge mass, which means more energy (assuming bananium is abundant enough to build ships from)
but lets handwave it away - FTL drive works on non-newtonian enough principles that make it desireable to have stupidly dense and massive ships

floor on upper deck is ceiling on the lower deck
it would negate out in the middle of the room and suck you to the ceiling when you get too close (or rather you would fall on the ceiling)
It would make possible some interesting room design, I suppose

Some. Artificial gravity generators are expensive to produce and maintain, so only high end military vessels and scientific craft have them. Civilian vessels and space stations use rotation instead.

>Billions of Planck Lengths per second

So about .00000000000000000001 meters per second??

>artificial radiaton

Well, the transhumans don't have artificial gravity, but they have very little reason to care. After all, you can just grab a 0G form for space if you don't just ride as data.

The magic-using aliens can create an attraction between a specific deckplate (located at the bottom of the ship) and the rest of the ship, which acts like gravity in the direction of the plate. However this requires a lot of power, and you can't use it to propel a ship. Power has to be rerouted from the gravplate during active thrust or FTL travel. It helps keep the crew healthy and sane, however, and is cheap to install so only the stingiest ship designs lack it.

Artificial gravitational force is a byproduct of FTL travel. If correctly focused, it will put the entire ship under a comfortable 1 G. If left uncontrolled, it will turn everyone on the ship into paste the moment the warp drive turns on.

Ships have to dock, orbit, and fight in zero-g, so make sure you've got your safety straps ready.

Depends on the focus of the game
If we're focusing on science and space travel like on my mission to Europa game, then outside of the habitation ring, no.
If it's just a pop-sci-fi game where we're adventuring IN SPAAAAACE, then yeah gravity just gets hand waved in because that's not why we're there.