Quote:... you say that as if it makes a difference... as if it makes it easier... Without gravity and atosphere, not only do you have to come in at the right angle to come in contact with the landing area relatively gently, without missing the small and moving target that is the catch zone, you have to do it MOVING BACKWARDS so the engines are in position for braking thrust - and let's not even get into battle damage or the possibility of hostiles in the same sky. What's more, you have to do it with crews that have only had simulator time, not actual ZG flight experience at first, and the ones from the surface carriers probably don't even have that.
Okay, right. The reason flight ops on a carrier look the way they do (wires, catapults, runways, etc.) is that the aircraft it services have to stay at or above a certain minimum speed for their wings to generate the lift needed for flight.
In space, not only is there no atmosphere, but any two objects that close together are either falling in the same direction at the same speed anyway, or in a whole fucking lot of trouble.
RE Esperanza: Does the whole ship spin? The sail would stop the ring at one of the struts, and it seems like it would be easier to just have it mounted aft of the sub proper, with a slightly longer beam out to the engines and the original engine room at least partially into the access area to the ring elevator.
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