How to Pilot a Starship

外星飞船带来了许多问题。虚构的外星人范围从触手恐怖表演到短暂的能量生物，因此您甚至没有保证您可以爬上船上，更不用说乘船驾驶试驾。

只需考虑自己的不义之财。它缺乏身体上的驾驶舱或透气气氛吗？飞行员的座椅是为方形臀部制造的吗？如果船舶设计师是陌生的，请不要期望人类友好的布局。

Fortunately, a great many fictional aliens are morphologically similar to human beings. Many even appear to speak English! So, you might just be in luck. Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith had no problem commandeering an alien spaceship in "Independence Day," though other vessels such as the "Robotech" SDF-1 Macross required a decade's worth of research and retrofitting.

如果幸运的话，您得分的太空飞船将举办一名仁慈的机器人飞行员，为您完成所有工作。“导航器飞行”中的三级无人机船就是一个经典的例子。当然，它可能会在您的大脑中存储星形​​图，也可能会随着时间的扩张而破坏您的生活，但这是桥下的所有水成为您的BFF。

有时是船人工智能（AI）甚至会在身体的身体中表现出来，例如Iain M. Banks的“使用武器”中的非军事军舰Xenophobe，它采用了可爱的猫般的生物的形式。在Xenophobe上旅行时，强烈鼓励与所述生物拥抱。

Still, not every spaceship AI yearns for friendship. A bot like HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey" might try to blow you out an airlock.

Other pilot AIs want to be much more -- "spaceships with benefits" if you will. Ship-piloting AIs in both "Futurama" and "Mass Effect 3" have fallen in love with their crew members, generally with problematic results.Sex with a spaceship一开始可能听起来很有趣，但不要屈服于诱惑。坚持拥抱。

Still can't figure out how to pilot that ill-gotten starship? Well, the problem might just boil down to insufficient brainpower. See, some vessels require more than闪电-fast reflexes and a knack for sophisticated gadgetry. In order to drive a Guild heighliner -- and do so without crashing into a sun -- you'll need a mutatedbrain那可以瞥见未来。

That's how the Spacing Guild in Frank Herbert's "Dune" avoids the many dangers of interstellar travel. The ability comes with a price, however, as it leaves them grotesquely addicted to the drug Melange, which gives the gift of precognition. A guild navigator essentially peers into the future enough to spot impending space travel disasters and slalom around them like flagpoles on a ski slope. With a ban on "thinking machines" in full effect, drug-infused precognizant mutants are pretty much the only way to navigate the "Dune" universe.

奥森·斯科特卡（Orson Scott Card）的“沃辛传奇”的飞行员也从心理力量中受益心灵感应to outwit enemies during space battles. Imperial navigation in the "Warhammer 40K" universe would be impossible without the sacrifice of psychic astropaths.

生活，有机船展示了自己独特的飞行员和导航障碍。彼得·汉密尔顿（Peter F. Hamilton）的“夜晚的三部曲”的情感无效霍克斯（Voidhawks）与他们的人类船长从出生时与人类船长有着心理纽带。Leviathan在“ Farscape”中的船舶取决于类似的布置，与特殊的外星试验物种形成了共生关系。

即使您拥有必要的心理力量，其中许多船只都是巨大的承诺。您的飞行员职责可能会使您陷入巨大的t t，或者只是将您埋在船上的余生中。也许您应该从用过的X翼开始？

认为您有心理充电brainand versatile anatomy to pilot any starship that comes your way? Well, think again, because still other crafts get a bit eccentric with their user interface.

例如，您认为您如何准备好从道格拉斯·亚当斯（Douglas Adams）的《银河系搭便车指南》（The Hitchhiker's Guide of the Galaxy）中驾驶星际飞船bistromath？该船的桥梁类似于一家刻板印象的意大利餐厅，配有方格桌布，机器人客户和机器人服务员。

The bistro décor is hardly for show, because the Bistromath's power and propulsion systems depend entirely on the social andmathematical小组用餐的互动。您知道当几个人试图拆分标签时会发生混乱吗？这种混乱是一种量子状态，其中“现实和不现实碰撞”和“一切可能是可能的” [来源：亚当斯]。为了驾驶船只，船长坐在桌子旁，命令不同的菜单项来改变船的轨迹。

Some starships seem devoid of functional piloting or navigation systems at all -- such as the vampire mothership in "Lifeforce," which hitches a ride to Earth embedded in the head of哈雷的彗星或“战锤40k”的空间绿巨人随机漂移。

同时，经典摇滚传奇人物波士顿大概是通过该组织的雄伟力量民谣飞行了标志性的殖民地飞船。如果您发现自己掌握了这样的星际飞船，请尝试玩一些从“不仅仅是感觉”到的即兴演奏accelerate toward the speed of light，切换到B面以降低速度。

与往常一样，请注意，Bootsy Collins的存在可能意味着您是在P-Funk Mothership上UFOofParliament Funkadelic。在这种情况下，该船的力量和导航几乎完全取决于被称为“放克”的难以捉摸的品质。另外，可能cocaine。

好运的是，二手星际飞船穿过漆黑的空白。如果其他所有事情都失败了，请让Wesley Crusher做到这一点。

我发现音乐太空飞船的想法尤其有趣，因此，克制自己也不提及宇宙专辑封面的其他船只是一个挑战。电动乐队如何从1977年的专辑“ Out the Blue”中飞行。也许答案是乐队的名字？

在深红色荣耀的“超越”的封面上，裸露的夫人太空飞船是什么？我的理论是它取决于爱因斯坦的一般相对论。Old Alby said, "Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." Crimson Glory simply employs sheer naked ladyness to warp space-time and convey ships across the galaxy. So piloting it would boil down to throwing her a bathrobe and collecting dropped towels.

几个人帮助我为这一想法集思广益，包括Howstuffworks自己的马特·弗雷德里克（Matt Frederick），游戏设计师安德鲁·兴发首页x格林伯格（Andrew Greenberg），游戏设计师安迪·哈蒙（Andy Harmon），当然还有震撼您的脑海中的Facebook粉丝的东西。本文中提到的一些星际飞船在我的内心深处是珍贵的，但另一些则令人惊喜。

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