/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11946917
From the very second the website say "Spaceship" you are supposed to accept that any opinion presented here is subject to technological and setting uncertainty.
It's goal is to allow us to make more credible Science-fiction. You'll notice it have a page for FTL.

A "perfect" scientific article would have simply limited itself to our technological level because science forbid baseless speculation so we wouldn't even have this discussion.

This website tell you for example how to get good space pirate when you can't hide behind the horizon anymore or pretend to be a non-indexed merchant ship.
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/pirate.php

>>11946959
>nobody is looking
Is a poor excuse for something they have the means to do. The page linked earlier show you that current technology could easily scan everything 360°.
You are just supposed to accept the argument from a meta perspective, "somehow, in this universe, stealth and reactionless thruster are possible".

>Under these circumstances it's very possible to be stealthy because even if someone saw your drive or heat, you'd just need a fake transponder code and you're good.
This only work if (as they mention) you can modify your engine signature to look like something else. Also in a world where spaceship can be used as weapon of mass destruction, it is improbable even a political clusterfuck would allow civilian ship to fly with fake transponder and not require them to identify themselves if they get anywhere with economic importance.

The world of The Expanse rely on some very fun but unrealistic assumption.