I am working on a new deck plan map. Not a scaled up map from the examples.
Color blocks from colors in the color chart. Different colors for each space.
Each deck will be 21 square areas, with 4 rounded areas for the corners.
I’ll have to figure out how many decks to map before I decrease the outer square/corner areas to accommidate the changes to provide the saucer shape.
I have been thinking of doing away with the streamlined shape for parts of the ship, as streamlining makes no sense in outer space.
For ‘some folks’ out there, this is all a work of fiction.
( I came up with a date system, rather arbitrarily, for this scenario/site.)
The Starship Wanderer is a generation ship, miles in size, and rather cumbersome. Carrying capacity is in the thousands of people. Some can carry over 1,000,000 people and have a bit of room left over.
Courier ships are small dart-like ships carrying 1 to 3 people.
They have the same type of engines. Bussard ram jets.
For some ( I don’t know any physics I’m just making this up as I go along.) reason the couriers go faster than the generation ships. Much faster. 0.99 Light rather than 0.87 Light. May not seem like much, but couriers get there faster than the passenger ships. In some instances the couriers seem to go faster than the speed of light.
A scientist from Vega 5 started a project to determine travel times from both types of ships, for the same solar system to same solar system travel. His name is lost to Antiquity.
He, or rather those who carried on the project in the years after he died of old age awaiting results back, soon found the time it took varied.
A courier and a generation ship going from Vega to Altair took 300 days for the courier, and 900 days for the generation ship.
But going from Vega to Kochab took the courier 150 days and the generation ship more than 200 years.
Something was a bit odd.
Information finally came back to Vega. Sometimes a courier crew notices a small flash outside the hull at some point and they believe they get to the destination faster. Scientists didn’t believe them. Rather like millenia ago the Sea Captains back on Old Earth were ignored when they talked about rogue ocean waves, which were finally proven.
However, due to the centuries it takes to get data not much has been done with this information.
part 2
Further research maybe found a solution.
A message came into Vega that research elsewhere shows courier starships wind up in the small 3-D version of a hypercube… and the larger starships wind up outside that smaller of the 2 cubes.
A researcher in the Vega planetary system pointed out that a hypercube is not stationary. So they disregarded the earleir message. There was no name, nor return address on the message anyway.
part 3
The hypercube drawing sent to the Vega 5 research project.
This was the explination of why the larger ships couldn’t go as fast as the couriers. They didn’t fit into the smaller part of the hypercube.
One thing they didn’t notice is… that isn’t a drawing of a hypercube. It is a Flatland drawing.
The scientists of Vega 5 puzzled for many long years about the meaning of the originating stellar address. Finally, someone in the Arcturus system figured it out. The address had a rapidlly changing component due to the origniating solar system was being destroyed by a black hole. The space around it was so distorted, the people living there were becoming flatter and flatter.
A rescue team of a number of ships went there, but all that was found was a black hole. Only the local cloud of ice and rocks outside the furthest planet in that system was still there.
back to Part 1
( Obviously a work of fiction.)
Gorshon Tornal is a Park Guide. He doesn’t actually fish, there aren’t any fish in the lakes and ponds, the net is just for show.
Of course, there were fish. But bored passengers ate them.
