Bookkeeping Notes, Session 219 (9/19/18):
– We will continue at 5:05AM on the 1st of Tenrilden with the party hanging from the lift stalled partway between the Library of the Dead and the walkway leading to XenoTel’s Command Module.
– Now Who’s Laughing about the Black Powder?: Nash, Using Pirate Know-How
– Charging the Enemy with Shard and Sea Shanties: Bavmorda, Magic Destroyer
– Helping Prix Pull a Fonzie on the Lift Mechanism: Laris the Electrical Mechanic
– Maybe Still Considering Calling in Daemonic Reinforcements?: Rallion, Thinking of Cutting a Deal with the DVLs
– The Only One Who Managed to Keep his Head Down and Invisible: Kauri, who Wonders about the Rest of the Party’s Definition of ‘Stealthily’
– Glad that Robots Don’t Suffer Vertigo: 7r33, Axelbot, and the Spider
– Wondering Why they Didn’t Stay Invisible: Alys, Oskar, Peronell, and Lambertus
– Still Alive, So Figures it’s Going Better than Usual: Prixithalma
– The ApoClock reads 00.000.00.14!
Note: I realized after the session that my physics were all wrong on how rotation works on the station and over-complicated something rather simple (warning: this gets a bit mathy):
– To achieve 1G gravity on the outer edge of a sapce station with a radius of 1.5 miles requires a rotational velocity of .6 turns/minute.
– At the outer edge of the station, that’s a speed of 344 miles/hr; 229 miles/hr at the edge of the narrower docking module
– However, no matter how close you get to the center-line of the station, it only rotates .6 turns each minute — meaning the speed decreases (duh! That’s why the gravity decreases!) proportionately
– That means the walkway also rotates at .6 turns a minute; with a radius of 25 feet, that equals a speed of roughly 1 mile/hour
Basically, this all means my double tube solution was unnecessary. The tube can rotate with the station without it being a dizzying whirl for the occupants. Therefore, let’s just retconn that bit and say it rotates normally.