Ships & Modules

Purely from a fictional and lore point of view, this came to mind while I was sipping my tea before bed.

While Cruisers might be a long-shot, Frigates/Rookie ships do seem plausible. I'd imagine Shuttles are a given.

I'm curious as to what peoples opinions are as to whether the "friction" and "drag" created by the active warp-core also works akin to other ships in other sic-fi universes, such as Star Trek and more notable Mass Effect, in which, as the latter implies, alters the mass of a ship (or any object), allowing it to enter, ascend and descend in any given terrestrial atmosphere.

Or, more likely, they would simply use remedial thrusters to overcome gravity, which would be more likely given the Shuttles appearance of having "wings", even though they look less then air worthy.

I'd imagine this was never considered when the ship models were designed, after all, the EvE wiki states that most of the space ore/materials would either melt or become brittle/oxidize upon entering a oxygen (or non-vacume) based atmosphere.

Do you think certain exceptions could be made to Frigates?


/lorenerd

I look at it this way....

It is a fictional universe, so any feasable idea you come up with can be accepted. Obviously things like Star trek ships entering through a wormhole are just ridiculous. But i think frigates and cruisers being able to land would be fine?

But then you have bigger ships like the harbinger, Hurricane etc, they may be able to land as well since they are about the size of an aircraft carrier.

Why would they land though? That would be the next step.

Crew rotation, module changings, hiding from pirates etc etc...

Continuing that trend, add in the fact you have artificial gravity, inertia dampening etc, would make entry and departure from atmosphere pretty easy. Maybe Dust could see frigates used in ground support roles too? They have some pretty powerful guns that could make a big difference

I wouldn't like to land a Nag though, it could fall over waaayyyyyy to easy :(

i just imagined a rupture 'landing' on a planet, then slowly falling over and exploding like a stranded whale.

In EVE space ships are built in space and operated in space and have specific craft and orbital elevators for taking people to planets surface.
A shuttle being a civilian ship might be able to land as well as most industrial ships since they aren't meant to be flow in combat and thus might be easier to made from materials that ,while being less sturdy, could survive the atmospheric entry.

How ever every single ship we currently fly in EVE has tritanium alloys in it which is highly fragile in atmosphere.

Same with the thrasher! The hound would sit just below the waterline, lone fin standing up like a shark.

That said, landing would add further constraints on a ship, increasing cost, taking up space for equipment, and probably require additional structural support. (think of the moa and how it would have to support itself under gravity.) And the required heat shielding needed for reentry.

Additionally, think about spinning your ship. Why would energy (fuel) be wasted I. a space station keeping a ship floating, if you could just land the ship on a hanger floor? Seems like a waste of resources in general.

Still, most ships could probably land once... It's just whether they could survive the landing to takeoff and do it again.

Well the first DUST trailer shows a Megathron hovering very close to the ground and then being destroyed by a missile barrage. I'm assuming the EVE lore would have to be tweaked a bit to fit this change.

Tritanium catches fire in air. So, no.

I can see it now

NEWS FLASH!!

A fleet of Dominix's tried orbital entry today but as a witness reported it looked like someone opening a sack of potatoes

The answers including physics and science reasons why not are plain funny given how eve works (random loud space game with submarine physics bar collisions).

The devs have as much as promised atmospheric flight in the big bold plans of the future. Dunno if it has been droped altogether... They might even include a mid slot given to a mod that stabilizes titanium alloys to satisfy some of the posters above (LOL).

However I think it is not something that we will see even soonTM.

If they ever did do it... it would be a very good chance to include a new pvp / pve combat environment where one actuallly flys the ship (something like X3R -X3TC physics and control). The haters need not yell so loud it will only be for the subgame ...

This could create the subgame to tie in Dust with EvE... Perhaps they would already have done something like this if not for Vampires online and whatnot...

tl;dr if the devs want it there is nothing to stop it and with luck it could even be good fun.

exploding or stranding? watched once how they cut a week dead stranded whale into pieces in a harbor .. very stinky thing btw.

there have to be ships able to land.
the first refinery and the first ship array had to be build with a planet as base. or other way round (as the eve universe was settled from space) there must be a way to bring settlers down to the planets surfaces (which could be performed by a pure tritanium ship .. it will burn while landing so better leave soon).

after all there is a courier mission including arctic warfare marines, wich i dont think are arctic warfare space marines. while they can be grown up on stations their destination is pretty sure on planets with some cold weather