[RFC][IMG] Making the Peace(maker)

[firvulag]

The
Zigs look good.  Although I wonder about the nose mounted coil-gun.  It
does look good there, but is there enough room for the barrel and
ammunition feed?  The Zig is a little over 5 meters long, and it
(potentially) only has one seat instead of the 2 a Long-EZ has, so
there's more room.  Hmm.  I think we can make it work like this.

In the nose?  I thought the coil guns were to be carried in a pod under the fuselage.  This would make the entire unit self-contained, and rearming can be as simple as swapping the pods out.  (Each Zig can have two coil gun pods.  When they get swapped for repair or rearming, the gunnery crew can do the actual work of repair/rearm when it's convenient.)

My original design had a belly pod/mount for the coil gun.  Star's CG has a nose mounting if you look closely.  I think that, given the nature of the craft it could probably be a customer option on placement.

I like and approve of your idea for the lack of pressurization of the cockpit.  The vac-suit with life support hook-ups makes sense.