Mech's Assorted Trek Stuff (mostly 3d models, some art)
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Sprouting Escape Pods like mushrooms ha
As part of the blockout I am making sure that the ship actually has not only enough escape pods for all the crew, but also that said pods are reasonably accessible from the main inhabited areas of the ship. So some poor redshirt isn't stuck having to run halfway across the ship and up three decks to reach the nearest bank of the things. (each of those pods is a Survival Box rated for four people and up to 5 months on standard ration bars. Granted, that's mostly Starfleet being understandably generous with the time margin; it's unlikely you'd have to wait more than a couple weeks at most for rescue. Certainly being stuck it what is essentially a small bedroom with three other people, no privacy whatsoever, and nothing but emergency ration bars to eat is not an experience any spacer wants to endure very long... but it sure beats sucking vacuum!)
Got a good bit of the flag deck done ha.
and some other things...
like turbolifts, the shuttlebay, cargo bays, machine shops, main engineering, the aft torpedo room...
Obviously, the big pink cylinder in main engineering is the warp core. her antimatter pods will be just forward of that, hydrogen storage will likely be forward of her aft torpedo magazines as part of her impulse complex. (a lot of the saucer is given over to big cavernous spaces like her all-hands briefing room, the pool, and so on. (yes it has a swimming pool. Because Starfleet.)
As part of the blockout I am making sure that the ship actually has not only enough escape pods for all the crew, but also that said pods are reasonably accessible from the main inhabited areas of the ship. So some poor redshirt isn't stuck having to run halfway across the ship and up three decks to reach the nearest bank of the things. (each of those pods is a Survival Box rated for four people and up to 5 months on standard ration bars. Granted, that's mostly Starfleet being understandably generous with the time margin; it's unlikely you'd have to wait more than a couple weeks at most for rescue. Certainly being stuck it what is essentially a small bedroom with three other people, no privacy whatsoever, and nothing but emergency ration bars to eat is not an experience any spacer wants to endure very long... but it sure beats sucking vacuum!)
Got a good bit of the flag deck done ha.
and some other things...
like turbolifts, the shuttlebay, cargo bays, machine shops, main engineering, the aft torpedo room...
Obviously, the big pink cylinder in main engineering is the warp core. her antimatter pods will be just forward of that, hydrogen storage will likely be forward of her aft torpedo magazines as part of her impulse complex. (a lot of the saucer is given over to big cavernous spaces like her all-hands briefing room, the pool, and so on. (yes it has a swimming pool. Because Starfleet.)
it's also really useful for inducing design constraints; I've already had to redesign the main saucer escape pod banks three times since the basic ones were mocked up early and subsequent design decisions have made it impossible to fit them in that specific location, and such. and as noted, escape pods are doing some serious work on filling "empty" real estate with greebling, just from the decision to have enough for the crew---because that means having MANY.
just her standard officer corps is 75 bodies, between senior staff and the junior officers. Then the flag deck alone is another good sixtysome personnel if it's in full operation, on average...
and yeah, I'm a hella pendant, but dangit, I wish more people did the Firefly thing and actually mapped out a ship's internals in relation to its exterior.
some paint, and she's got Impulse now. (incidentally, that little metal bit coming out the bridge isn't just a random greeble---it's a turbolift shaft! specifically, the one that goes over the shuttlebay.)
Also the questers elected to develop better Phase and Plasma cannons instead of going for classic Phasers, so they have unironically managed to inject some Kelvin Timeline Energy into this AU ha.
(yes I actually think about the sound effects. those are very important
)She's starting to look like a Starship, ha!
(granted she's still missing her torpedo launchers and in need of much greebling yet, but we're getting there!)
Yet More Escape Pods TeeEmm, plus the main airlocks for underweigh use.
also...
she's starting to fill up, all right.
(yes that is an entire regulation size Olympic pool, and those are movie theaters. These things are downright luxurious in terms of amenities.)
Also fun facts, it carries eight torpedo launchers (2 aft & 6 fore), 12 plasma cannon batteries, and 16 phase cannon batteries. So, it's doing the usual Starfleet thing of being a luxury cruise liner clipped into a battleship and somehow doing both actually well rather than badly the way basically everything from the Ambassador on is, only way, way sooner, which I find completely hilarious.
(granted she's still missing her torpedo launchers and in need of much greebling yet, but we're getting there!)
Yet More Escape Pods TeeEmm, plus the main airlocks for underweigh use.
also...
she's starting to fill up, all right.
(yes that is an entire regulation size Olympic pool, and those are movie theaters. These things are downright luxurious in terms of amenities.)
Also fun facts, it carries eight torpedo launchers (2 aft & 6 fore), 12 plasma cannon batteries, and 16 phase cannon batteries. So, it's doing the usual Starfleet thing of being a luxury cruise liner clipped into a battleship and somehow doing both actually well rather than badly the way basically everything from the Ambassador on is, only way, way sooner, which I find completely hilarious.