Semi OT: Spaceship Cockpits?

[Ed Kolis]

Most aliens are giants!

[PvK]

They're for the entertainment of the crew.

PvK

[Taera]

no, seriously?

[Slick]

All great craft in history have needed the ability to see for navigation and the equivalent of "parking" for whatever craft you are talking about. Even submarines, which have no windows, must surface and put people up on the sail (bridge) for maneuvering in and out of port. Apollo 13, in which the movie was very accurate, used visual navigation to make it back to Earth. I would think that, since humans rely on vision for so much, the ability to see out of a craft for navigation, combat, maneuvering, etc., would be absolutely necessary.

Slick.

[Taera]

But what about futuristic massive spaceships, manned with hundreds of people and equipped with the most precise sensors and computers?

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Taera:
But what about futuristic massive spaceships, manned with hundreds of people and equipped with the most precise sensors and computers?

There would still be windows simply because people have a inner need to look out onto (into) wide open spaces. It goes a long way to curbing claustiphobia. Besides, looking at the stars has always had a soothing effect on the souls of mankind.

Cheers!

[geoschmo]

Reasons for windows aside, I see very few pictures that have any extensive cockpit-style windows. Only the Urkatal among the stock sets have what even looks anything like that to me. Some have nothing that could even be obviously picked as a window at all. Most have some tiny things that perhaps are portals, but it's difficult to say for sure at the scale which I assume these pictures to represent. Which shipsets are you using?