Deckplan Aides

[atpollard]

Biosphere II ran on (mostly) recycled and reclaimed water, and surely the tech of 100 years hence will have those problems mostly whipped.

We have them whipped now. There exists a matrix of polymers and 'secret stuff' that forms a sponge-like material that will absorb only water molecules from untreated sewage on one side and expels 100% pure H2O on the other side. It has no moving parts and requires only a minor temperature or pressure difference across the 'filter' to drive the process.

It was developed for NASA and is undergoing small-scale testing in Florida in preparation for the construction of giant reclaimation plants in China. They project over 50 years of operation with no maintenance to the filter.

 

[Ran Targas]

If it's quick and dirty that you want, MSPaint works fine in a pinch and the bitmaps are easy to manipulate. Just start off by creating a 10x10 pixel or 20x20 pixel grid, then overlay your graph paper design on top; very simple.

With some practice, you can do almost as good as the artists Mongoose hired but not quite as good as Steve Jackson's.

 

[BraselC5048]

On a couple of topics raised n this thread;

For millitary ships, I use 7 feet floor to ceiling, with 2 feet under the floor used for life support and similar, and the foot over the ceiling used to store spare parts. (I use 10 foot deck centers).

For life support, I use a 15-week duration in my games. Ships use recycled water, but oxygen is stored as liquid oxygen, carbon dioxide is filtered out and dumped overboard, food is stored (fresh, frozen, canned, etc), and additional hull atmosphere is stored as compressed air. There are also compressed air tanks that start empty, to store the atmosphere in the hull when the ship decompresses. Ships have a triple overage of oxygen and water, and half the overage of oxygen is stored as water
Everything but the food comes out of the tonnage under the deck (as in free tonnage), and the food stores are marked on the plan next to the galley. For a ship with a complement of about 350, the 15 weeks of food comes out to about 30 dtons.

 

[PFVA63]

Hi

On a couple of topics raised n this thread;

For millitary ships, I use 7 feet floor to ceiling, with 2 feet under the floor used for life support and similar... (I use 10 foot deck centers).

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Hi,

That's not a bad idea. Its important to keep in mind in real life in buildings, and ocean going ships, etc in spaces where you have a lot of electronics you will often have a false floor underneath where you can run electrical cables and ventilation ducts.

As such, in a scheme lke what you propose, in most spaces in the two foot high space below the deck you could have piping, vents, electical conduits, and other basic life support equipment but in areas with a heavy amount of electronics (like the bridge, sensor spaces, computer rooms, or machinery spaces and the like) this area may be more used for just the heavy cabling for the electronics and cooling vents/equipment.

Regards

PF