In looking for ships to inhabit my Northwest Passage subsector, I've been doing a lot of flipping through 2300AD material. I love the ship designs in 2300 and will be using a lot of the larger designs as is. However, it lacks tailsitters, crafts in which the decks are stacked to take advantage of the ship's own thrust to simulate gravity. This makes sense, the chemical rockets in 2300 can't burn constantly for that continuous thrust, so tailsitters aren't practical in 2300. This isn't so for Northwest Passage, which uses fusion torch drives similar to (though a bit more modest than) the Epstein Drive from The Expanse, so tailsitters are the norm for ships too small for spinning habitation drums. I particularly liked the design of the ISV-2 Independent Scout from 2300 and decided to redesign it as a tailsitter for my own purposes.
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| I mean come on, the thing is just begging for it with that cylindrical design and naturally seperated deck sections the perfect width to be decks of their own if flipped on their side. |
