Difference between revisions of "Waste Space"
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[[Waste Space]] is unused or unusable space within a ship [[hull]]. | [[Waste Space]] is unused or unusable space within a ship [[hull]]. | ||
* While the term sounds like it might be for garbage or refuse storage, that is not accurate. | * While the term sounds like it might be for garbage or refuse storage, that is not accurate. | ||
| + | * [[Ship's Papers]] often make note of waste space. | ||
* It is a kind of [[Ship Equipment]]. | * It is a kind of [[Ship Equipment]]. | ||
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== Description ([[Specifications]]) == | == Description ([[Specifications]]) == | ||
More streamlined hulls tend to have higher percentages of waste space. Less streamlined or unstreamlined hulls tend to use their space more efficiently. | More streamlined hulls tend to have higher percentages of waste space. Less streamlined or unstreamlined hulls tend to use their space more efficiently. | ||
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=== Image Repository === | === Image Repository === | ||
No information yet available. | No information yet available. | ||
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| + | === [[Secret Cargo Hold]]s === | ||
| + | As ships can afford to use less space space efficient hulls, smugglers increasingly convert waste space to smuggling compartments and [[secret cargo hold]]s. There is a fine art to secreting contraband into a ship hull well so that customs officials will overlook it. | ||
== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == | == History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == | ||
| − | + | In the earliest days of spaceflight, the cost to lift a pound or several [[kilogram]]s into [[orbit]] was exorbitantly high, so lower technology spacecraft very understandably minimize waste space. | |
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| + | By the [[TL:10-12]] [[tech epoch]], [[gravitic control technology]], specifically [[G-Drive]]s makes it tremendously more affordable to transport mass out of a gravity well and less space efficient hulls become vastly more widespread. | ||
== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) == | == References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) == | ||
Latest revision as of 18:23, 25 June 2019
Waste Space is unused or unusable space within a ship hull.
- While the term sounds like it might be for garbage or refuse storage, that is not accurate.
- Ship's Papers often make note of waste space.
- It is a kind of Ship Equipment.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
More streamlined hulls tend to have higher percentages of waste space. Less streamlined or unstreamlined hulls tend to use their space more efficiently.
Image Repository[edit]
No information yet available.
Secret Cargo Holds[edit]
As ships can afford to use less space space efficient hulls, smugglers increasingly convert waste space to smuggling compartments and secret cargo holds. There is a fine art to secreting contraband into a ship hull well so that customs officials will overlook it.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
In the earliest days of spaceflight, the cost to lift a pound or several kilograms into orbit was exorbitantly high, so lower technology spacecraft very understandably minimize waste space.
By the TL:10-12 tech epoch, gravitic control technology, specifically G-Drives makes it tremendously more affordable to transport mass out of a gravity well and less space efficient hulls become vastly more widespread.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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