Question on the definition of what is considered diagonal. If there is 1 card above 2 cards in order to move to the top card from one of the bottom 2 cards, is that considered diagonal or adjacent?
Howdy Belter. If the cards are only touching at the corners, that's a diagonal. If the cards are touching along one of the sides, that's a valid move. For instance, on the Camel light cargo freighter, the aft nacelles can be accessed by the three interior modules on the ship diagram. But if you look at the Scorpion on the next page of your Belter manual, you can't hit the aft nacelles from the center empennage (that middle module that's right between all three cut lines) because that'd be diagonal movement. I mean that's an ugly example because you COULD spacewalk... but I think you take my meaning. Without taking a swim, you can't make a diagonal transit... but spacewalking's got its own rules.
Hope that clears it up for yall. If not, give me another holler.
Chariot, out.
55 days ago(+1)
This might clear up what I'm asking. I emailed this to you, but I guess I'll ask it here.
Also another question about towing a shuttle. Do you need to perform 2 spacewalks (1 from AirLock to shuttle and 1 back) or just one when you leave? Does it matter how far the shuttle is to your airlock?
54 days ago(+1)
That does indeed clear it up a mite for me, Belter. Let's see if I can return the favor.
I've highlighted the overlapping short sides of the cards in the bottom diagram. That's an adjacent move. The B diagram shows a move between two cards where the corners are the only bits touching; no overlap on the short or long sides. That'd be a diagonal move.
As for the spacewalk, I'm going to direct you to the flight manual and see if I can't clear up the murky language. "You can spacewalk between any two modules nearest one another, provided you can draw a straight or diagonal line between them and they're separated by empty space."
"Nearest one another" and the "separated by empty space" are your tricky bits on the red and blue arrow. You can spacewalk along a diagonal or a straight line as far as you want in a single go, so long as you're not intersecting another card. The idea is that it's a single leap through empty space across the vasty nothing. No turns, no crawling along the hull, no lucky spins.