deckplan viginettes

[flykiller]

not really up to any more deckplans, especially on larger ships. but such larger ships could be experienced by the players not as a whole, but in sections, so I'm thinking a collection of viginettes might be useful.

platoon boat deck

here each 20 dton APC is flanked by a staging area consisting of 8 low berths and 8 combat gear lockers. each squad consists of 12 marines and each APC is driven by 2 pilots, for a total of 16, thus two boat bays and two staging areas represent one squad. in addition to the 4 squads here there is another APC that carries the platoon leader and his support, plus an extra boat bay, here temporarily occupied by a 20 dton supply gig. adjacent to these are an equipment maintenance area and an extra set of low berths and equipment lockers for extra support personnel such as engineers or other specialists.

 

[hurrahbro]

Originally posted by flykiller:
not really up to any more deckplans, especially on larger ships. but such larger ships could be experienced by the players not as a whole, but in sections, so I'm thinking a collection of viginettes might be useful.

I like the idea

After all, larger ships could likely be built from modules, or use standard layouts.

I could well imagine the architect mulling over a ships structual lay out and thinking " I need to provide accomodation for 200 ratings, I think a number 3 stateroom in a 'B' layout should cover it and I think it will fit in that space between those two bulkheads"

 

[ravells]

I really like the concept and the design - very clear and easy to see.

Ravs

 

[Valarian]

This would especially fit the Vilani hide-bound traditionalist outlook. The standard design book of government approved templates.

 

[flykiller]

This would especially fit the Vilani hide-bound traditionalist outlook. The standard design book of government approved templates.

my thought too, but I'm sure everyone would find an advantage in using such templates.

continuing to flog the boat deck horse for a little while longer, here are two others.

boat decks

here a survival deck combines all three survival philosophies. a pair of standard lifeboats, capacity 32 passengers each in emergency lowberths, are flanked on the bottom by a pair of Damage Control Stations, outfitted with reserve air and water, battery power, a remote control panel, vacc suit lockers, and an equipment locker, and on the top by a pair of emergency low berth rooms, each with an occupancy rating equal to that of the lifeboats and backed up by a life support unit and battery. the hatch entries along the bottom lead to multiple passenger spaces, while a pair of airlocks for general passenger access are on the outer hull.

exactly the same deck, only now the boats are passenger gigs meant to pick up fast-moving high class travellers who don't have time or inclination to mingle with the common steerage class. each boat bay is flanked by carry-on luggage cargo space.

 

[flykiller]

I really like the concept and the design - very clear and easy to see.

three keys to that.

1) symmetry
2) repetition
3) contiguous space

symmetry lets the eye flow easily over the design without having to make unexpected twists and turns. repetition lets the mind say, "I've seen that before" and skip past features without having to reexamine them. and contiguous space shapes the path the eye follows as it takes in the image.

medical facilities

the larger facility is suitable for passenger liners and mid-sized warships. waiting room, examination room, intensive care units, surgery theater, and low berth room are arranged in logical order.

the lower left facility is a minimal full-service unitary sick bay. the lower right facility spans a corridor and is probably the smallest possible sick bay that is more than just an outpatient service.

 

[flykiller]

crew corridors

just some typical corridors that might be found in crew areas. on the left are typical single-occupancy crew cabins, with hotel services and a holograph entertainment booth at the top of the corridor. next are married couple staterooms - two holograph booths for this one, there could be 16 people living on this corridor. next are married couple staterooms with ajacent cabins provided for newborns (an empire that makes no provision for families doesn't exist long). last on the right is a corridor lined with officers' work spaces. the captain's cabin with his own personal office is on the upper left, the XO has his own office, and the other officers share double offices. on the upper right is a conference room with a full holo-suite, while at the bottom left is a simple room for interviews with crew. at the top of this corridor would likely be the ship's bridge.

 

[Enoff]

Great!

 

[kaladorn]

Good thread. Keep it coming! Some common sorts of cargo area configurations (10 or 100 dTon sections, perhaps liquid tanks, pallets, or others sorts) would be a good choice. I'm sure there are other sorts of things (turret rows (batteries)), etc.

 

[flykiller]

yep, I'll be getting to turrets and cargo. lots of possible game action in those spaces.

more corridors

on the left are standard crew cabins again, only this time arranged in a more compact manner, using less corridor space and allowing about 5% more cabins in a given space. also there are access doors between cabin pairs, allowing some flexibility in crew associations. again, at the top are a holograph entertainment booth and hotel services.

next is a corridor of high passage cabins, some with computer terminals. the one on the bottom right has an attached sitting room, while the one on the bottom left has an attached private office.

following are luxury high passage cabins. the larger have attached living rooms. extra holobooths are provided and an attendent is assigned to the space to see to laundry, guest requests, etc.

on the right is a corridor lined with full-on family suites accomodating up to 3 children or 4 children of equally-divided sex. a small school is also provided. as you can see the space is huge and could only exist on capital ships. imtu the imperial services make every effort to accomodate procreation while shipboard, but in general once a family has children it is given ground assignments as the cost of maintaining families aboard ships is simply too great. nevertheless some families can be found aboard imperial ships, and this graphic represents their accomodations. ymmv.

(description to be updated later)

 

[flykiller]

some spaces

on the left is a platoon berthing area. from the top down, two squad spaces flank the platoon head and laundry area (with a chair for the day's laundry queen). below that is the platoon assembly and training area - the entire platoon is shown formed in ranks for roll-call - lined with holograph entertainment/training booths. on the right are a life support unit, an armor/weapons locker, and the platoon office with desks for the 2lt and staff sergeant. the side this office is on will be on the corridor that communicates with the other platoon berthing areas and company hq (if any).

two of these platoon berthing areas side by side lengthwise are as wide as a single platoon boat deck lengthwise. placing the berthing areas in the middle and flanking both sides with boat decks seems an appropriate layout. placing one of these layouts atop another makes for a full deckplan for one company and its transportation.

(it occurs to me that the platoon training area needs to be twice as large as it is - in particular it needs 12 holograph training booths so squads can train together in linked simulations. I'll redo it later.)

on the upper right the two spaces are officers' wardrooms. the top wardroom has a full kitchen directly adjacent to it - this one is suitable for liners where passengers dine with the captain.

on the bottom right is a ship's office. the office proper is on top, and looks over a counter to the reception area below. embarked passengers and groundside contractors interact with the ship here.

 

[Pickles]

Neat stuff, Flykiller. Though one wonders where those newborns come from when the married quarters have seperate beds...?

 

[RandyT0001]

Originally posted by the Bromgrev:
Neat stuff, Flykiller. Though one wonders where those newborns come from when the married quarters have seperate beds...?

Haven't you ever watched 'I Love Lucy'?

 

[ravells]

The sad thing about most of us on this board is that we are old enough to have watched the original broadcasts!

Ravs

 

[RandyT0001]

Ravs, 'I Love Lucy's original broadcasts were from 1951 to 1957. I doubt that 'most' of us on this board were old enough to have watched the original broadcasts. That would mean 'most' of us are in our late fifties to sixty.

 

[flykiller]

Though one wonders where those newborns come from when the married quarters have seperate beds...?

no problem. zero-G.

airraft bays

just some simple bays. the one on the upper left is 10 dtons and has internal equipment lockers. situated adjacent to vertical hull the outer door simply swings out while the inner pressure-boundary door slides up into the overhead above the airraft to allow egress. the airraft itself is a limo, with standard seating in the rear cabin. the adjacent bay is 7.5 dtons and all equipment is held in a locker outside the bay, presumably at the end of an access corridor. egress hatching is similar. the airraft itself is a truck with large cargo compartment and seating for 4. both of these bays are provided to assure maintenance access and ease of passenger and cargo handling.

the next bay is the standard 4 dton airraft bay. hatches provide access/egress but other contact with the airraft is impossible unless it is out of the bay. exit for the airraft will be provided by iris valve or outward-lifting hatch, which may be weak in airtight integrity.

to the right are a collection of various airrafts.

on the bottom is an airraft bay that might be located on the top of a larger vessel to allow unimpeded airraft ops. the dotted rectangles around the airrafts represent overhead hatches that ease inward and to one side (upward on the graphic) to allow airraft launch. equipment lockers provide support while air locks allow open-vacuum access and personnel decon if necessary. the elevator and deck hatch at the top of the depiction allow invasive monsters <b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b<b personnel normal access to the bay and the rest of the ship.

on the bottom right is a to-scale drawing of my full-sized automobile, for comparison.

(description to be updated later)

 

[rogermccarthy]

While the original I Love Lucy indeed ended in 1957 there were two spinoff shows with the same characters that ran up to 1974 and most of us old enough to remember them tend to mentally file them all under 'I Love Lucy'.

(and of course it was the profits from the various Lucy shows that allowed the Desilu studios to fund the original series of Star Trek...)

Apparently the rule well into the sixties was that sitcom couples could only be shown to have a double bed if they were married to each other in real life.

This was rule first broken by Bewitched in October 1964 and then by the Munsters a few weeks later - but so concerned were the networks about the dire moral implications that they gave Darrin and Samantha a huge Queen-size bed so that the actors would not have to be 'in close proximity' to each other.

(isn't wikipedia wonderful?)

At the same time we in the UK we had two male comedians (Morecambe and Wise) who regularly shared a double bed in TV sketches without anyone batting an eyelid...

 

[ravells]

Originally posted by Randy Tyler:
Ravs, 'I Love Lucy's original broadcasts were from 1951 to 1957. I doubt that 'most' of us on this board were old enough to have watched the original broadcasts. That would mean 'most' of us are in our late fifties to sixty.

That's enough, you little whippersnapper.

. No respect from the young these days.

Ok then, maybe the first repeat.

 

[Valarian]

These are excellent - and so useful too.

Ravs - what's "I Love Lucy"?

 

[Mickazoid]

I love these little 'chunks-o-fun'. Great job on this thread.

And yes, I'm in my mid-thirties - but I still love "I Love Lucy"... it was in reruns by the time I became sapient.