There are so many reasons that geometry of a space ship matters from pressurization structural stability, acceleration stress, to deflection angle of space debris during travel.
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Shouldn’t spaceships be a collection of tubes?
If you removed the disk of the enterprise you’re basically there.
A disk is just a very short tube.
In CAD maybe but air pressure doesn’t work that way
Not with that attitude it doesn't! We've got shields to tell the air pressure how to behave.
That sound you're hearing is a mob of angry topologists
Be more like the Borg. Our space ship is a literal cube. Efficiency!
Wouldn't a sphere be more efficient?
Depends on what metric is being measured for efficiency.
If you're making square rooms inside, then no.
The Borg have spheres too, to be fair.
Arkon and by extension Terran ships in Perry Rhodan.
Perry Rhodan also has something a bit like the Borg (but I'm pretty sure much older) called PosBis, and their ships are described as roughly cube shaped nightmares.
That's dwarf fortress: Odyssey
I love ships that wouldn't work well in atmosphere! They look much cooler! Feel more spacey!
My friend in avorion spent countless hours designing incredibly cool, streamlined ships that had V wings and neatly spinning barbettes for weapons systems. He downloaded the fan-made recreations of popular sci-fi series.
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I made cubes. I put square stone on top of square metal armor on top of reinforcing blocks, and threw everything into ever-expanding cubes. Once I got the auto-targeting weapons, I WAS the borg. It was beautiful.
Engi freighter always
Me playing avorion.
Fine, it'll be a double walled square.
Save our Ships devs in shambles. Or elated maybe?