Technical Bar question

[ever_lovin]

 I've heard it mentioned from time to time that there is a flight simulator room in Milliways. I was wondering if it's been established what the simulators are like? Are they like what we have now or are they higher tech, say Holodeck level? Thinking of giving Ben some flight time and thought I'd get the geist before I made it up.

Comments

[ceitfianna]

I'm fairly certain that room was set up by the X-Wing pilots and from the description I remember, they were described as almost like video games. Where you get in a chair that's in a pod/simulator thing that acts like a plane. Since they're from the Star Wars' universe, they would be higher tech but I don't know the details. I'm sure one could easily be reprogrammed to work with older technology. This could also be helpful for Hank to get more flight time and ideas.

[bjornwilde]

Oh that is a very good idea! Mostly I was playing with the idea of having Ben fly some WW2 fighter planes and was going to have him have an EP dressed for the flight. I wasn't sure if it would be him being weird or dressing for the program like ST-NG always did.

[alas_a_llama]

Belatedly, yeah, there are SW-verse flight simulators there, definitely at least for X-Wings, A-Wings and Y-Wings (er, general all-round fighter planes, really fast fighters, slow bombers).

I think there are modern earth plane simulators there too that use the same technology, but don't quote me on that.

[ever_lovin]

So they are basically video booth/pod style simulators (i.e. a cockpit and not much else) rather then VR/Holodeck technology? I think regardless, Ben will dress up for the flight.

[damncompass]

I want to say that there's at least one Ender'verse flight simulator in the room as well. It would be something fairly similar to the X-wings, but different kind of ship. (And a very adjustable seat)