Re: A problem to solve

I would think so.  You would have to create the decks "sideways" - in
other words, the decks would look more like the layout of a pack of
Rolos in the ship than the "layer cake" style that most ship designs
use.

Yours truly,
Sable

--- "Downer, Chris" <Chris.Downer@?????????.com> wrote:
>Won't the crew also be pulled toward this gravity sphere if you posistion it
>in front of the ship to aid propulsion?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Infinite Possibilities [mailto:InfinitePoss@?????????.net]
>Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:33 PM
>To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
>Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] A problem to solve
>
>
>With magic, you can make it so that no outside gravitational force will
>affect your ship, without destroying the natural gravity your ship
>produces itself.
>
>The gravity ball would actually be fairly powerful. Without any outside
>gravitational pull except the ball of gravity affecting the ship, you
>could eventually exceed spelljamming speeds if your ball had enough pull
>to it as the ship would always be "falling" toward the ball of gravity,
>and the ball would always be the same distance from the ship at all
>times unless moved by the caster. If you make the ball variable in its
>gravity pull as well as letting the position of it being determined by
>the caster, you could control the speed and direction of your ship.
>
>Remember, if the ship is "immune" to any outside gravitational forces,
>it pretty much has an effective weight of 0 and would then be easily
>pulled around by even a small amount of gravity.
>
>Of course come to think of it, you could probably come to the same
>effect by manipulating the natural gravity plane of the ship itself.
>
>Have Fun,
>Darren
>
>George LaValle wrote:
>
>> Erm...that makes very little sense to me. So...I want my ship to have null
>> gravity why? That would seem to me to make it rather more difficult
>> to...say...breathe...in SJ. As well as cooking, reading, sleeping, what
>> have
>> you.
>>
>> And then, right, I have a ball of gravity...um...an area with gravity? And
>> this ball pulls my ship along at the slowest of all possible speeds.
>> but...If I want to stop, couldn't I just leave the ball insie the ship? Or
>> are we talking crushing gravity? I don';t think I'd want one of *those*...
>>
>> George LaValle
>>
>> OK..Right...Whatever
>>
>
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