Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 2:32 PM
Ignatz,
Wow, that looks amazing! I mean, it really feels like a thing that could exist. I'm continually in awe of your work. If I could do what you do, I'd spend all my free time making ships and stations and everything else. Man, I'd never come up for air!
The boxes, themselves, would be double-walled, with an inner and outer hull. The equipment for its thrusters, life support (if any), artificial gravity (if any), and all the rest, would be sandwiched between them. Figure...what? The inner hull being 1.5 to 2 meters inside the outer hull? That would leave just enough room between them for creepy, under-lit access tunnels, used by maintenance people and bots to get at stuff that needs inspection or fixing. And that's plenty of space for an ambush, or hidden bomb!
Sorry. Just imagining the possibilities.
-David
Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 3:41 PM
David,
Glad you like what your are seeing. As for being in awe of anything, I would have to say that is so for me when I listen to your stories. The plot, characters, dialogue and world building are just amazing, to say nothing of your fine narration.
Sadly, when it comes to prose, I cannot write my way out of a paper bag. In fact, the bag does better. I understand the bag is being short-listed on the New York Times Bestseller List. This annoys me (not that I am jealous of the bag, or anything) since I sometimes have what I think are interesting ideas...just no skill in the art of creative writing...never learned and its a bit late for me to start down that road. Sigh! Well, to each their own particular gifts.
Cheers,
- Ignatz
Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 5:10 PM
Peter,
Regarding close-ups of the ship and frame and such, we can lace as many images throughout the rulebook as we want, so there's no need to hide any of your amazing work from readers!
-David