Could you stand living in a scout ship?

[Blue Ghost]

A thought occured to me about five minutes ago as I was reading. My office is approximately the size of a starship single occupant cabin; three meters by four-point-five (3m x 4.5m). I imagined four other rooms like it, connected by a corridor to a 747 cockpit and a galley area, itself connected to an area four times the size of my two car garage.

That is your living space. You have to stay there for two weeks, all the while you're sharing a bathroom, eating area, and a common entertainment center with three other occupants.

Would you, as your contemporary self, go stir crazy, or would you be able to take it?

 

[aramis]

A thought occured to me about five minutes ago as I was reading. My office is approximately the size of a starship single occupant cabin; three meters by four-point-five (3m x 4.5m). I imagined four other rooms like it, connected by a corridor to a 747 cockpit and a galley area, itself connected to an area four times the size of my two car garage.

That is your living space. You have to stay there for two weeks, all the while you're sharing a bathroom, eating area, and a common entertainment center with three other occupants.

Would you, as your contemporary self, go stir crazy, or would you be able to take it?

I could hack it for a couple weeks, maybe even a month.

6 months would be pushing it.

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

with a chance to get out a few days every two weeks, and a decent set of films/games, yhea, I could hack two weeks in a space that size for a few months.

not sure how long I could keep that up on the trot, but at two weeks alone in a scout I could do.


the real question is could you spend that long in the company of another person without trying to kill them?

or, hell, three other people?

 

[Blue Ghost]

One more thing. Remember, this is a Type-S, and the only windows you have in the cockpit.

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

yhea, but half the time, those windows just show the grey of the jump field.

 

[The Oz]

Nuclear submariners stand much more cramped and crowded conditions for up to 120 days, sometimes.

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

Nuclear submariners stand much more cramped and crowded conditions for up to 120 days, sometimes.

true, but they are somewhat bigger. we're talking about being stuck in a living space smaller than most houses for weeks on end.

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Hack it? Hell, where do I sign up?

A thought occured to me about five minutes ago as I was reading. My office is approximately the size of a starship single occupant cabin; three meters by four-point-five (3m x 4.5m). I imagined four other rooms like it, connected by a corridor to a 747 cockpit and a galley area, itself connected to an area four times the size of my two car garage.

That is your living space. You have to stay there for two weeks, all the while you're sharing a bathroom, eating area, and a common entertainment center with three other occupants.

Would you, as your contemporary self, go stir crazy, or would you be able to take it?

As I live in a studio apartment quite happily my only question is do I have to share it with other humans? Or other sophonts for that matter? Yep, I will happily join the the Teardrop Club and get my mad skills while not having to deal with other people. Antisocial disorders have their uses. :devil:

Also just to drive the point home, it has been six years in the studio and before that I tend to live in houses with a bunch of friends, plus I actually did about what the OP asks when I lived in an upper flat with four to six other dudes and we did it with only three staterooms. Ah, the fun with those bunking in the Lounge. Also I am rather claustrophilic.

One more thing. Remember, this is a Type-S, and the only windows you have in the cockpit.

Windows are for Downsiders, we Travellers understand that portholes/windows are overrated.

yhea, but half the time, those windows just show the grey of the jump field.

Yeah! That is too cool and the only real reason for ports.

 

[Jame]

with a chance to get out a few days every two weeks, and a decent set of films/games, yhea, I could hack two weeks in a space that size for a few months.

not sure how long I could keep that up on the trot, but at two weeks alone in a scout I could do.


the real question is could you spend that long in the company of another person without trying to kill them?

or, hell, three other people?

I could hack it under the same conditions.

I could do it with my fiancée (for obvious reasons) and a couple others I'm friendly with (not three-way kinda friendly, though), if I can get off ship every couple of weeks.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Could you, as yourself again, live with three other Vargr or Aslan? Remember, not really dogs or cats, despite superficial similarities, but sentient / sophont beings who talk, eat, and share your bathroom and dining facilities.

I can hack more than a couple of week on my own. But with other people? Other ALIEN people?

I don't know. That may be kind of weird.

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Ooo, that is question.

Could you, as yourself again, live with three other Vargr or Aslan? Remember, not really dogs or cats, despite superficial similarities, but sentient / sophont beings who talk, eat, and share your bathroom and dining facilities.

I can hack more than a couple of week on my own. But with other people? Other ALIEN people?

I don't know. That may be kind of weird.

Can, I get a Hiver, a Bwap (they rock in port ) and a Zhodani? Don't trust beings with a dependence on Charisma or barbaric Honor Codes to the point of refusing to acknowledge a proper gender becuase it offends them...well, being a dishonorable human poison works wonders. "Sorry Timmii, but we had to put Fluffy to sleep...forever." :devil:

 

[Blue Ghost]

Can, I get a Hiver, a Bwap (they rock in port ) and a Zhodani? Don't trust beings with a dependence on Charisma or barbaric Honor Codes to the point of refusing to acknowledge a proper gender becuase it offends them...well, being a dishonorable human poison works wonders. "Sorry Timmii, but we had to put Fluffy to sleep...forever." :devil:

That sound like a bad joke in the making; "A Hiver, Bwap and a Zhodani walk into a bar..."

 

[pendragonman]

The OP's premise sounds to me like this is not just a Type S (S for Smelly), but one on detached duty for a bunch of player characters.

I already know I can hack it as a Scout, alone, on Survey or Courier duty, for months on end. Just as long as I change the contents of the media library every time I get to base.

Now, can I hack it with a group of fellow PCs? IRL I was a tanker for a term, and that is considerably less living space compensated by a much larger field of view. Useful but incomplete data.

I have had roommates and am not on any wanted posters for mass murder, and some of those roommates could be considered alien life forms from their hygiene habits. More Useful but incomplete data.

Given the idea of 3-4 days of port or planet side time every month and regular updating of the media library, I think I could handle many months of such accommodation. But I have many introvert characteristics, a tendency to isolate myself for days or weeks at a time devouring new media, I enjoy my own company so staying in my own stateroom for most of each day (should the other PCs annoy me for extended periods of time) is no problem. As a plus mathematics research is mostly an individual effort so I can keep working all alone.

So yes, I think I am good to go. Why do you ask? Got a type S stashed in your barn for a select few to escape the bonds of this insane world on? I am a guy, so may not be your perfect choice, but I play and or GM almost anything

 

[Carlobrand]

A thought occured to me about five minutes ago as I was reading. My office is approximately the size of a starship single occupant cabin; three meters by four-point-five (3m x 4.5m). I imagined four other rooms like it, connected by a corridor to a 747 cockpit and a galley area, itself connected to an area four times the size of my two car garage.

That is your living space. You have to stay there for two weeks, all the while you're sharing a bathroom, eating area, and a common entertainment center with three other occupants.

Would you, as your contemporary self, go stir crazy, or would you be able to take it?

Depends on the quality of the entertainment software.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I could certainly do it for a few trips, but remember, to the best of my knowledge at least, the interior of a type-S is stark white. I've always guessed it to be white plastic molding like the interior of the blockade runner in the first Star Wars film, with fluorescent lights over head. Recal the starship operator's manual.

Your cabin is like that. The galley is like that. The main corridor is like that. Engineering is like that. I'm guessing the airlock probably has some scuff marks, but otherwise is also white. The cockpit. The watercloset / bathroom.

Yeah, a few cruises, as long as I could stretch my legs inbetween trips.

But imagine you're traveling on a route that just happens to take you from one airless world to the next, and "outside" consists of interior shopping mall spaces, maybe an air tight hangar, and so forth. I mean you might spend a few years of your life completely within artificial environment. o:

 

[Blue Ghost]

*much snippage*

So yes, I think I am good to go. Why do you ask? Got a type S stashed in your barn for a select few to escape the bonds of this insane world on? I am a guy, so may not be your perfect choice, but I play and or GM almost anything

If I did, I'd probably wouldn't be here

I don't know what brought this up. I was reading in my old office this afternoon, the idea just struck me. I then thought about the typical Type-S, then the Beowulf and the Far Trader, then I thought of the Millemium Falcon, and then I thought of Wayne's "Florian" scout. That thing has windows. I think I could hack long multi-jump treks in that thing, but I think after two or three jumps in the hospital white of the Type-S, I'd start to go "space happy"; i.e. nuts

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

What white walls?

If I did, I'd probably wouldn't be here

I don't know what brought this up. I was reading in my old office this afternoon, the idea just struck me. I then thought about the typical Type-S, then the Beowulf and the Far Trader, then I thought of the Millemium Falcon, and then I thought of Wayne's "Florian" scout. That thing has windows. I think I could hack long multi-jump treks in that thing, but I think after two or three jumps in the hospital white of the Type-S, I'd start to go "space happy"; i.e. nuts

Geez, don't you people ever paint the walls or say see if the decor controls have other functions like say paisley. :devil:

Though personally I have been never more in a fictional character's skin than I have with Henry Dorset Case because we both see our bodies as the meat that carries us around till we can jack back into the Matrix, so really the white walls don't bother me one bit. Also of the Star Wars ships my fave has been my love at first sight Tative IV Corrilian Blockage Runner (second being the Y-Wing), and so the Type-S Boulton interior is pretty cool and high tech to me.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Geez, don't you people ever paint the walls or say see if the decor controls have other functions like say paisley. :devil:
*snip*

... dude ... you have issues ... o:

You ship's interior walls ---->

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

What issues?

... dude ... you have issues ... o:

Paisley is a perfectly fine pattern, though being all ennobled and stuff perhaps an ermine pattern would be more suitable.

And everybody has issues. I am just honest about mine and pretty okay with them these days too.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Now you're putting up cute doey-eyed animal corpses on your walls?

Your starship walls covered with the animal skins of --->


Why not hang a taxidermist bust of Bambi?

Wait.....you fly a safari vessel, that's what you're telling us, right? :CoW: