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Jul. 8th, 2002 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellAnd now, I present: characters that never have much to say randomly whacking me upside the head with neat shit.
Opera, specifically.
Opera's ship, more specifically.
I figure, if Opera is toting a BFG9000 around, any ship she owns is going to have enough firepower to make her gun look like a peashooter. In other words, Opera has a fighter. A not-entirely-legal one, most likely, although with her family being the Important People they are, folks tend to look the other way when a fighter docks at the space station and this little five-foot-three blonde thing in high heels and a dress cut up to here and down to there pops out of it.
Now, out of necessity, fighters are small, fast, and maneuverable. Everything that goes on has to be monitored and controlled by one, maybe two people.
This is where the cool Treknology comes in, to give a single pilot the simplest and most efficient way to watch everything that's going on outside the ship and manage navigation, weapons, and so on.
The ship would have a standard set of manual controls, but those are for emergencies. The main control system would mostly consist of a sort of spherical force field inside which the pilot is suspended, and a sort of VR helmet and gloves. The helmet would be inoperable by anyone without that strategically placed third eye. Which pretty much makes the ship inoperable by anyone without that third eye--the emergency controls can only be used after one has taken off with the main controls.
Anyway. Sensors and cameras and shit on the hull of the ship feed data to the helmet, offering a 360-degree view of the ship's surroundings. Navigation, weapons, and so on are controlled by voice commands and gestures. The ship can be made to turn, move, or shoot in whatever direction the pilot is looking with a few words and a wave.
As Opera is usually alone in said ship, she isn't terribly worried about her dress flapping around in the sphere. Though she does grumble a little about having to tie her hair back to keep the helmet from yanking it out.
Opera, specifically.
Opera's ship, more specifically.
I figure, if Opera is toting a BFG9000 around, any ship she owns is going to have enough firepower to make her gun look like a peashooter. In other words, Opera has a fighter. A not-entirely-legal one, most likely, although with her family being the Important People they are, folks tend to look the other way when a fighter docks at the space station and this little five-foot-three blonde thing in high heels and a dress cut up to here and down to there pops out of it.
Now, out of necessity, fighters are small, fast, and maneuverable. Everything that goes on has to be monitored and controlled by one, maybe two people.
This is where the cool Treknology comes in, to give a single pilot the simplest and most efficient way to watch everything that's going on outside the ship and manage navigation, weapons, and so on.
The ship would have a standard set of manual controls, but those are for emergencies. The main control system would mostly consist of a sort of spherical force field inside which the pilot is suspended, and a sort of VR helmet and gloves. The helmet would be inoperable by anyone without that strategically placed third eye. Which pretty much makes the ship inoperable by anyone without that third eye--the emergency controls can only be used after one has taken off with the main controls.
Anyway. Sensors and cameras and shit on the hull of the ship feed data to the helmet, offering a 360-degree view of the ship's surroundings. Navigation, weapons, and so on are controlled by voice commands and gestures. The ship can be made to turn, move, or shoot in whatever direction the pilot is looking with a few words and a wave.
As Opera is usually alone in said ship, she isn't terribly worried about her dress flapping around in the sphere. Though she does grumble a little about having to tie her hair back to keep the helmet from yanking it out.
