Spinward Flow
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Certainly!
They would be "huge" compared to the starships constructed by other races ... but yes, it can be done.
Stateroom size - 4 tons too much?
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They would be "huge" compared to the starships constructed by other races ... but yes, it can be done.
I dare you to design….. the K’kree Trader!
Spinward Flow
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Take a number, get in line.
I've got other projects to finish before turning to deal with something like that.
I'm still not done yet with my revised 328 ton SIE Clipper collaboration project between Caladbolg/Sword Worlds and Grote/Glisten in the Spinward Marches. I've had other priorities taking up spaces in the top of the stack.
mike wightman
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There already is one
Foe my brief time on a big ship in my service I would have killed for one of these...
Badenov
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So true. Apart from being new, they look so much more spacious. I say this completely without irony, sadly.
That means the very nearly the entire Naval service, though at any given time, some are on shore duty and others are at sea, and the ratio varies by specialty. Now I'm not disagreeing that all sailors don't have mental health issues of one sort or another, but it often doesn't impede living a more or less normal life.
Badenov
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This is true, but a subject on which I know very little. And what I do know almost certainly wouldn't fly here. No one's even brought up two people sharing a bed in shifts, hotracking. Part of me is amused that wikipedia has an article on this, and a picture of a pre-Ford Navy berthing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_racking (Picture says that's CVN-71, USS Teddy Roosevelt.)
AnotherDilbert
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I always chuckled when I read that ... it is a SMALL CRAFT (like a Launch) and you have installed a "Small Craft Stateroom" [SCS] in place of a "Small Craft Couch", and the pilot decides to increase revenue by allowing 2 passengers to share 1 "SCS" by each using the room for Half the time. So where exactly, on a small craft, does the passenger go and not use his SCS tonnage?
Let's slip on a VACC SUIT and cling to the outside for a while to admire the breathtaking views of the stars?
mike wightman
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Sits outside in a vacc suit enjoying the view, and the radiation dose...
Spinward Flow
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Why do I now have the mental image of someone reclining in a magnetic "dawn chair" stuck to the hull just outside the airlock ...?
Catching some cosmic rays through the SPF 10,000 vacc suit ...
Sounds like a Pullman room with seating that converts to a bed, and fold down bed above.
No good for a week, but workable for a night or two. 1 dton for the above, 1 for shared fresher.
I always thought that those "railroad cars" were the idea behind the "Small Craft Staterooms" to begin with (Railroad Accommodations vs Steamship Accommodations for Commercial Travel).Sounds like a Pullman room with seating that converts to a bed, and fold down bed above.
No good for a week, but workable for a night or two. 1 dton for the above, 1 for shared fresher.
It was the idea that you only used the space HALF the time that amused me ... like you could leave a moving train or a 30 dTon Ship's Boat mid journey while someone else was using your tonnage. That REALLY means that the 2 dTon SCS is a 1 dTon Cabin (50 sf) and another 1 dTon (50 sf) of "dining car/Lounge car/Coach" to accompany it. Otherwise it really CANNOT be shared by vacating the space (without that magnetic chair on the outside of the hull).
[Square footage explained: A guide to cruise ship cabin sizes]
That would be 4 dTons (200 sf) to 6 dTons (300 sf) shown in that picture ... so one or two people are locked in that room for a week (single or double occupancy on a starship). "Steward! I'd like another bottle of vodka and a refill on the ice bucket." [sigh]
Perhaps a subtlety to consider-those navy crews are stuck in tin can cramped conditions, but they usually get better grub then most services.
I would argue this stems from a deliberate investment in what we would call Steward skill, to help with crew ‘happiness’ similar to positive effects with attracting passengers.
I would argue this stems from a deliberate investment in what we would call Steward skill, to help with crew ‘happiness’ similar to positive effects with attracting passengers.
Of course, and if I recall correctly there were some ships designed for K'Kree in the CT Alien books.
Spinward Flow
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CT AM2: K'kree pages 11-13, 25 and 27.
Merchant (p13): 6000 ton hull, J2/1G/PP2, MCr2322.18
Courier (p13): 6000 ton hull, J3/1G/PP3, MCr2997
Frigate (p13): 5000 ton hull, J1/3G/PP3, MCr2148
K'kree ships use LBB5.80 with some modifiers (p25 details) for the creation of K'kree starships, not LBB2.81 (they're just too big, by default, for LBB2.81 to make any sense).
Kakistocrat
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Perhaps a holowall with a guest-selected theme of randomly generated scenery would help the hours pass more comfortably in high passage.
That would be 4 dTons (200 sf) to 6 dTons (300 sf) shown in that picture … so one or two people are locked in that room for a week (single or double occupancy on a starship). “Steward! I'd like another bottle of vodka and a refill on the ice bucket.” [sigh]
That, and a steward who knows what to stock up on for repeat customers.
