The Ship's Mess- Pre launch

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Dr Hattingh it is. A Med Bay is fitted to the frame. It's located aft from the sleeping area and lounge.
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Umm... is this a 'prospecting'/'mining ship'?

We'll, we'd need, a hold - or two which can be compartmentalised.

Engineering Section- including workshop(s) - probably needs easy access to the holds for maintenance of mining vehicles.

Life Support Section - how long is a typical 'voyage (prospecting run?)' - say enough life support for 10 people for 10 weeks? What would be the actual crew complement - max of 8 but minimum of 4 (for safe operation?).

I'd think that the bridge would need 4 stations each one to control : helm, comms, tactical, engineering or perhaps some of those functions could be doubled up.
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Two more ship possibilities:
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The last one looks great! Two cargo holds and living area at the spine aft. Right?
Do you have deck plans for those?
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No deck-plans, I created the hulls in blender. I'll see if I can rustle something up.
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Thanks! I'll have a stab at it over the weekend. I think we have what we need to get things started.
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At this time, the crew is sitting around the mess hall table. Cups filled with black slug resembling a caffein drink, leaving vapors in the gloom room. Not enough power have been allocated to the living quarters as the ship is under construction still. Most power is used up by a group of bots working along a framework dry dock encompassing the core structure of the ship.

Ship's name: Undesignated

Mission: Ceres - Project Copernicus

Pre-Briefing: UMC has forwarded a message via the inter Sol transmitter. A bounty is rewarded those who investigate Rock F242-Z which is seven days away from Ceres location.
Upon opening the message, the crew will be pinged as the primary actor on the job, receiving 80% of the bounty, should the mission be successful. The second crew who accepts get secondary priority and 20% of the bounty.

To view the entire briefing, the crew must agree to a number of clauses to get proper directives. Upon not accepting the read briefing, the team will receive a budgetary mission on the next occasion a job is forwarded. At the moment, as a new operator, the crew has a classification as Type H crew. The designation goes from A-O with H being the median designation.

Designation: Hale Crew

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"Good Morning, Travelers.", the ship's computer greets the assembled crew.
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I've been trying to work out some facts 'n figures for the ship.

Cargo capacity: 32,000 m[sup]2[/sup] (16,000 m[sup]2[/sup] per hold)

Bunkerage/life support/stores: 20,000 m[sup]2[/sup]

Engines/engineering: 10,000 m[sup]2[/sup]

Hanger/Garage/Workshop: 3,000 m[sup]2[/sup]

Central Spine: 5,000 m[sup]2[/sup] (across 3 decks, accommodation etc )

The sticking up bit at the rear: 4,000 m[sup]2[/sup]

I've based this on 90m max length 90m max width

Too big, too small, about right?
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"Good morning, computer," says Ben Dawson unnecessarily. Though the computer is programmed to seem human, it of course has no actual feelings. "Let's have that briefing. If we want this job, we'd better snag it fast before some other crew beats us to the punch."
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"Good morning, sir." Rona greets Ben Dawson and sits down for the meeting.
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"Good morning, Rona," says Ben, taking his own seat.
OOC,That brings up another consideration. Who is in charge?
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OOC:   Crew and Comrades! I'm checking in properly when back home. Great to see the morning meeting commencing. I'll produce the full briefing when my homebound journey has come to fulfillment.  
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@Lee, I have trouble getting the square meters to add up. You wrote the bulk size is a 90mx90m square, right? This square is U-shaped with the bottom being the spine in the pictures.
Had the entire 90x90m space been hull, it would give 8100m2.

Now, only 1/4 of the space is used for each of the cargo holds, being the forks of the U. 22x70m app. 1540m2/cargo hold.

Having five floors for the living area will add up to some m2. The cargo holds should be maximum two floors with high ceiling height. That would give 6000m2. Converting it to m3 would better show the cargo capacity.

I might be misunderstanding the scale, and completely calculating it wrong.

I'm good with the 90m length and 90 m width. It's the floor area I'm struggling with.*

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"Certainly, Ben.", the computer relays.

A holographic altitude map of Rock F242-Z is shown hovering beneath the screens centered in the ceiling above the mess table.
Quick facts is printed in mid air in neon green over a deep pitch backdrop.

"A hardcopy of the details is available at the printer."

The Copernicus Project was launched by UMC and UN about five years ago. A month ago, reports form the base stopped being transmitted.

Code: Select all

Base personnel:
CONFIDENTAL – Distribution Prohibited
Copernicus Project - 
Name Nationality 
Dr. Reinhardt Stahl German Project Leader
Willam Eckermann Canadian Logistics Leader
Daniel Smilie American  Technology Leader
Dr. Costas Dabizas American  Personnel Leader
Prof. Jan McMullan British  Science Leader
Herman Kohl German  Security Leader
David Miles British  Hardware Team Leader
Sarah Miles British  Hardware Engineer
John Copland American  Hardware Engineer
Dr. Mohammed Yusef American  Software Team Leader
Katherine Robinson American  Software Engineer
Dr. Tanith Lee American  Software Engineer
Patrick McGough Irish  Software Engineer
Hector Gonzales American  Software Engineer
Darius Predzaniski Polish  Software Engineer
Adam Stephens American  Logistics Officer
Johan Schroder Austrian  Mechanic
Hanson McFetridge British  Mechanic
Linda Tokarski American  Nutrition Supervisor
Prof. Frank Stevens British  Astronomy Team Leader
Prof. Sarah Clark American  Radio Astronomer
Dr. Jesus Vasquez Spanish  Radio Astronomer
Daniel Masters American  Astronomy Officer
Dr. Oleg Putin Russian  Meteorologist
Dr. Edward Smythe American  Exobiologist
Prof. Richard Burns American  Cryptologist
Prof. James O’Hara American  Counselor
Dr. Emily Esteban American  Doctor
James Polanski American  Security Officer
Herzog Chaim Israeli  Security Officer
(The table is scrollable.)

Background for the Copernicus Telescope:

SN1987 A was discovered in the 1980's when it was about sixth magnitude. It was the nearest and brightest supernova observed since 1604. The star that exploded was identified as a twelfth magnitude blue supergiant, known as Sanduleak -69° 202. Maximum magnitude, reached in mid-May, was near 2.8, easily visible with the naked eye. In 1999, a pulsar was detected within the remnant of SN1987A. Post 2014, the base on Rock F242-Z was built. Dr R. Stahl was the mission leader.

The Magellanic Clouds are two small, irregular galaxies, which are satellites of our own Galaxy. They are visible as hazy patches in the southern sky. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is in the constellation Dorado and is about 170,000 light years away. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), in Tucana, is about 210,000 light years distant. In 1987, a bright supernova, designated SN 1987A appeared in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The clouds are named for Ferdinand Magellan, who saw them in 1604 on his journey around the world.

Objectives of Operation COPERNICUS are three-fold:

• To obtain up-to-date intelligence on the Copernicus Project.
• To determine if the Copernicus Project is engaged in developing WOMD.
• To contain and prevent the spread of any biohazard present.

The assigned crews of this operation are authorised to use all necessary force and methods in accordance with the UMC and UN directives in achieving the aforementioned objectives.
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OOC:   Whoops, cubed.... I meant cubed... what a klutz.
Each hold 20x50x18 ... I'll mark up a plan.

Below are the actual views, the other image was misleading (due to foreshortening).  
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"No doubt it'll be dangerous," says Ben, "but it also must be lucrative. Think we should take the mission?"
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Michael taps in a couple of queries into his mini-comp, tasking another sip of 'java' and managing not to grimace at the extremely bitter taste. "We'd need at least eight hours before we could get under-way, all of the control runs were installed and tested a couple of days ago... the port-side hanger doors are still not sealing properly but the internal locks are fine... we can keep that hanger under vacuum for the time being. Well actually we don't have enough 'life support' to pressurise anything apart from the central section. I've prioritised our shipments of general stores and those will be available within an hour but we can't fill all of the lox tanks till the day after tomorrow. Ohh and the cost of water has gone up another 3%; we might want to provision more of that... elsewhere?" he raises an eyebrow, inviting comment from his fellow 'ship-owners'.
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"It might be worthwhile to harvest our own water," says Ben. "Not only would we save money, but we'd also be less dependent on anyone else to supply it. We may not be ready leave yet, but we'd better claim the mission right away if we're going to take it. The lion's share of the bounty goes to whoever signs up first, the second gets a quarter of that, and there's no prize for third place."
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"I agree, on both accounts, we need to find our own water, but we also need to claim the mission first, even if we are not ready." Dr. Rona Maritz mentally goes over her medical inventory, her supplies are enough for the moment. Hopefully after this mission, there will be enough money for some medical equipment she wants for medical bay, some of it are "outdated".
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