Ship (In)Stability - Joke

Ship (In)Stability - Joke
Do IJSN (Imperial Japanese Space Navy or whatever they are called) ships

have to make an involuntary roll if they lose more than half of their damage
boxes? Not very funny I know but I have been reading about ship stability and
it appealed to me.

Distantly related true (?) story.
In bad weather one of the Larne-Stranraer (Scotland - Northern Ireland)
ferries took shelter in a bay up the coast and radioed Larne harbour about the
weather there to see if they could dock. They were told that the Baltic Ferry
had just docked. They replied "The Baltic Ferry is back

from the Falklands, we're back from the scrapyard. We're staying put."

Apparently on a passage with a lot of football supporters on board they did
not use the stabilisers, so they were too busy vomiting too cause any trouble,
although the bottom of a stairwell was a pool of vomit!

MRB.

Michael,

In normal space operations there would be little to toss a ship around waves.
This could happen if going very fast through an area with lots of small
gravity wells or lots of space dust. I would imagine that space ships would
try to avoid both kinds of areas. As far as stability loss due to battle
damage, the critical factor would be the thrust of the ship. If the ship has
multiple engines annd loses them from 1 side, it might cause the ship to
tumble out of control. My reading of the rules is that they don't allow this.
The little histories they give of specific actions have ships loosing 1 ship
thrust and it just slows them down.

Tim

> Michael Blair wrote:

> Ship (In)Stability - Joke
ships
> have to make an involuntary roll if they lose more than half of their