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The pilot's station, the co-pilot station next to it is mainly the flight engineer's station, which allows the engine room to be controlled from the bridge. The table thing in the centre is a 3D holographic cartographic display that can either display local space, or planetary maps. Bottom-right is a station that's rarely occupied, it's tied into the computer (so if you want to do a Spock and look up something - say, information on a planet you've just landed on - that's where you'd go). Bottom-left is the astrogator's station. He plots the jump so the pilot can focus on maneuvers. The astrogator also doubles as the radar and comms man.Bounty wrote:Let's see if I understand the plan: from top to bottom, there's a cockpit with pilot/copilot seats and two stations in the back;
Yep, that's the ship's locker (or lockers), where most of the tools, weaponry, odds and ends, etc are kept.a vestibule with storage space
Those are sensor globes, each have walk-in maintenance areas.with port and starboard...docking ports(?),
The common area has a galley and a table. I think that square thing is supposed to be the ship's computer.a common area
The fresher unit is meant to be an all-in-one thing that combines toilet, wash basin, laundry and shower. It's not hard to squeese all that stuff into a small space like a cabin, actually (believe me, I know), with the exception of the laundry. But it's sci-fi anyway.with two cabins on either side (each with bunk, desk and what looks like a toilet),
It's a ventral ramp, just like on the Millenium Falcon.a cargo hold with a ventral (?) elevator or ramp,
Each side has a maneuver drive (utilising magic thrusterplates that Stark has been known to describe as 'gaylord'), the Jumpe drive, and the fusion reactor. There are two of each to give redundancy.a ladder to the turret and two more...engineering spaces?
The way the rules work, a 'dton' (displacement ton) is a unit of volume that's 1.5 m x 1.5 m x 3 m. That last is the height. However, around the edges the height surely must taper down to conform with the external views of the ship. So in the common area, and the cargo bay, the ceiling will be 3 m high, and this will be so in the staterooms (for example) except around the bed and fresher area.Neato. Does the headroom work out? I've found that that's the big problem with odd-shaped ships: you make a beautiful deckplan, then you notice that half of it is about 3ft tall...
Whoopsie, I thought those were docking connectors. It's a bit odd to have sensors on the *side* of the ship and not in front, or is that just me?Those are sensor globes, each have walk-in maintenance areas.
She doesn't taper that much and you'd have some wiggle room with the hull thickness, but it's still something that always gets me by surprise. You know that Simpsons episode where Homer rebuilds Ned's house, Ned walks down the hallway and ends up crawling to a 5"x5" door? That tends to happen with the ships I draw.But it wouldn't be extreme, I don't think. The ceiling will be shorter on that end of the stateroom but not so much that you'll hit your head - unless you're really tall.
Oh? The bridge does double as a briefing room, of sorts, with that holographic projector in the centre.Knife wrote:Cool little ship.
Couple bitches as I see em; cockpit/bridge is aweful big for only four crew. Lots of wasted space.
The engines are small. Traveller uses magic gravitics drives simply so that a ship doesn't need to dedicate two thirds of its mass to engines and fuel.On the other side, engine space seems real small too, don't see much in the way of ship systems in the plan....
The cargo bay does look larger than I think it has to be, although what I didn't detail into the plan was a vehicle that would need to be able to exit the ship easily. If I were to draw that in, along with cargo boxes, the cargo bay might look more 'filled in'.Most the intenal volume isn't habbital space and given over to ship functions with a sizable amount to the engines. A lot of the space in your ship is huge with little need for it to be while other places that might need to be huge aren't. Though I admit I have no idea what universe this ship comes from.
