Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of content/Styleguides

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Mar 19, 2009, 2:50:14 PM (16 years ago)

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FelixSchulthess

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content/Styleguides

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 === Spaceships and -stations ===
-Human ships and stations are large heaps of metal that consume lots of fuel and fly relatively slow. The ships look similar to todays modern aircrafts, although their shape is a little less aerodynamic, because they travel in space and not inside an atmosphere. Most of the human ships are symmetric, which simplifies the modeling process. Space stations are mainly constructed by modules, which makes them look a little bit chaotic. They are built in every size. Some small stations are unmanned and serve only as a gas station for traveling vessels while other stations are complete cities in space where hundreds of millions of people live and work.
+Human ships and stations are large heaps of metal that consume lots of fuel and fly relatively slow. Metal is the only material that proved to be cost-effective, hard and durable enough to withstand the strain by attacks and collisions with the occasional asteroid.
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+The ships look similar to todays modern aircrafts, although their shape is a little less aerodynamic, because they travel in space and not inside an atmosphere. Most of the human ships are symmetric, which simplifies the modeling process.
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+Space stations are mainly constructed from a set of generic modules, which makes them look a little bit chaotic. They are built in every size. Some small stations are unmanned and serve only as a gas station for traveling vessels while other stations are complete cities in space where hundreds of millions of people live and work. The larger stations are not equipped with their own engine. If they want to move, a bunch of towships are attached to them to pull them through space.
 
 When modeling, you can add various details to your ships and stations, that are typically human. These include ordinary thrusters, a cockpit, some kind of extensions on the side, where weapons and auxiliary gas tanks can be attached, survival systems for the human crew, doors and hatches in the hull, ducts, cables, service panels, a cargo bay, lights, antennas, devices for docking onto other spaceships or space stations.