On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 09:26:50 -0800, Ethan McKinney
<xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>Don't know enough, but does this get rid of hurricane/monsoon seasons? Are
>those caused by temperature differentials between the northern and southern
>hemispheres?

I don't know whether it's got anything to do with hemispherical differences
(though I doubt it, just because of _where_ the cyclonic storms form), but
the premise was based on some world-building of unknown accuracy by Baen
author Tom Kratman, in his Terra Nova series. My Kottabhumi is, for all
intents and purposes, his Terra Nova, as far as weather/climate is
concerned, and his worldbuilding included the increased reliance on
airships instead of jets. I thought it was an interesting idea, and wanted
to see what some of our gearheads could come up with for airships, which
don't seem to have been given much space in prior Traveller world-building.

>On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 20:15 Vareck Bostrom - bostrov at icloud.com (via tml
>list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
>> How much less of an axial tilt is it?
>>
>> I’m also not following as to why less severe seasonal weather changes
>> would lead to zeppelins being more reasonable to use over long distances.
>> There would still be weather, after all.
>>
>> I can’t find the research this is based on, but interesting blurb at any
>> rate:
>>
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/23degrees/2011/03/what_if_the_earth_had_no_tilt.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 4:45 PM, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> ... lead to different worlds, when you're doing worldbuilding.
>>
>> Here's a different world; I'd like your help with something in it:
>>
>> Kottabhumi is a garden world, a near twin to Earth. Its axial tilt,
>> however, is less, meaning that (a) seasonal weather changes aren't as
>> extreme, and (b) weather is more uniform over a greater percentage of the
>> surface.
>>
>> One of the side effects of that is that airships - blimps, zeppelins,
>> dirigibles, etc. - are a reasonable choice for long-distance travel when
>> time is not necessarily of the essence.
>>
>> So... Given that the tech level on Kottabhumi doesn't quite admit gravitic
>> technology, but that the world is pretty solidly TL8-verging-on-TL9, what
>> sort of airships do they have? Designs and writeups would be appreciated;
>> the interesting ones go into future issues of Freelance Traveller...
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