Re: The how to and whys on flying a spelljammer ship.

Greetings,

In our last episode, Kevin Scardino said:
>I must be one of the few people that actually understand how the flying of
>a ship and the need for rigging works.  Their are three axis that need to
>be achieved to properly fly a spelljammer vessel.
>
>The helm of the ship allows that ship to move in any direction that is
>desired. but the actual ship does not turn or rotate.  The driver can
>change the orientation of the gravitational plane, but can not change the
>orientation of the ship

	Then why aren't ships built like rings?  Why add facing when you
can have MC A without it?  Sure, groundling ships would be "ship-like",
but spacer designs wouldn't look like bugs and fish.

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>The need for sails and such comes into play with oriented the ship in a
>particular direction.  The ship sits in the gravitational plane which the
>helm navigator controls,  but the ship must be physically turned to give it
>the proper alignment for say ramming, docking, and such

	Which still hasn't answered one very important question: How?
How do sails turn a ship?

-Static

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