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JaegerDelta:
I tend to use prop instead of screw.
while yes screw is a more nautical slang for the propellers on a mechanically powered ship having to deal with how the fins on that are shaped and how it moves the water. However, with Bi-planes being present in the world and the term pilot being used to describe the person controlling direction of the ship and the thin blades involved, i think the aviation slang is a bit more apt.
The life of the crew would be similar to that of a naval crew in battle but not in the day to day. with the sizes of the ships involved and the lack of real living space on the ships, I would not think these ships would be flying for months at a time. it would be more like a shorter term deployment specific for what you are doing, then you are back in a hangar until you go out again.
Lord Dick Tim:
Awesome point Jaeger, I was hoping somebody else would bring up the "prop" being the amount of engines on a ship rather than a screw. Didn't want to be the only one debating my own words.
Now what about this little wrinkle. Most of the engines seem to have 2 props per screw. So a Squid has 4 screws, 8 props, the earlier referring solely to the turbine action, the later the propellers themselves.
Though I do just like keeping it simple and referring to it just as a prop.
Pilothouse does sound like an outhouse lol. I used the oldest term for it, again, to get some of the other words out. I also enjoy helm over pilothouse, as really only the Goldfish has something close to a pilothouse.
Since we don't have a water line some of the terms in reference to the hull aren't used. Namely, water line, freeboard, draw. What are some plane terms that describe the outer body of the ships structure?
Do the ships have coaming? Raised edges around hatches to keep water out? I'd imagine that is a possibility on the weather deck at least, keep rain out of the hold.
Mattiator:
A term for the main body of an aircraft is usually the fuselage, although "hull" is often used for flying boats and whatnot. I tend to prefer "screws" myself, same story for "helm".
Lord Dick Tim:
I think we can have a nice division in the game lore space about this one Mattiator. Engineers would call it a fuselage, everyone else calls it the hull, which makes true engineers loose their goddamn mind.
JaegerDelta:
--- Quote from: Mattiator on May 16, 2013, 06:53:55 pm ---A term for the main body of an aircraft is usually the fuselage, although "hull" is often used for flying boats and whatnot. I tend to prefer "screws" myself, same story for "helm".
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wellllll if we are being technical the correct term for airships, that refers to where the crew is located, is gondola. so you could say that the airships in this game have really augmented gondola's. but i think its better to try to work in universe as much as possible rather than relying on technicalities from the real world.
also on the prop/screw thing. it would probably actually depend on where the people were from. the coast would most likely use screw because they had to have had a mechinized naval past and the words from that probably survived in some form or another. while the land locked areas most likely knew of/ fought against the coastal region's naval forces but probably would have more experience in aviation/land based forces and would use the words of their people for the parts on an airship.
basically on the coast its probably a screw, in the interior its probably a prop.
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