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Questions tagged [spaceship]

For questions about the specific functions or layouts (etc.) of spaceship or spacecraft in a work. Always use this tag in conjunction with the correct tags for that work.

A spaceship or spacecraft is a vehicle designed for traveling in or into outer space. Spaceships are a common trope in many science-fiction stories. There are many stories based almost exclusively around spaceships.

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Why is the bridge located in a vulnerable spot on capital ships?

Why is the bridge located in a vulnerable spot on capital ships? In various sci-fi worlds, capital-class space ships seem to have their bridge located in a manner where it is easily accessible to enemy fire (even small ship fire). It makes it seem…
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Origin of old drawings (before 1995) of "Defrog" space-craft

Recently I went though the content of an old hard-disk I found in the attic. Disk wasn't used since 1995... On it I found a collection (some 60 images in GIF format) depicting floor-plans of various models of space-craft all labeled as "Defrog…
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The dimensions of the Star Cluster in Mission to the Stars

In A.E. Van Vogt's stories which were later combined into the novel Mission to the Stars, also called The Mixed Men, a society in the Lesser Magallanic Cloud founded by refugees thousands of years earlier is detected by an Earth Empire space…
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Are there formulae for non-FTL starship speeds and and relative time passed?

I'm about to run a sci-fi campaign with sublight starship travel, with a solar system and to all the stars within 10 light years of Sol. There are starships that accelerate at 1g, and some that accelerate at 2g, and they can change the acceleration…
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