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Yes, it is a pie in the sky project, literally. The amount of space available is so huge that a team of people would require a long time to complete it.
I'm wondering if I'm skilled enough to even get the basic framing down, and we'll see how it goes.
Currently, I plan to use some test files in Canvas 7 to figure out how I'm going to even begin approaching this.
I plan to have a ring of inner elevator shafts, six or twelve (with multiple elevators per shaft), all the way around the central column making up the aquarium and garden. The Garden is a cone, though, and not a cylinder like the aquarium. This means, to me, that the elevator shafts begin at the bottom floor of the Avionics Ring (after which a switch to other elevators via a heavily armed and armored checkpoint is required, for security purposes), as close to the garden cone as is feasible. They then run straight down. The garden cone itself is surrounded by suites (I'd hesitate to call anything so luxurious "apartments", but that's what they are, really) with giant windows overlooking the garden (but no balconies or ability to open the windows), and the windows are all one-way, so those in the Garden cannot view those in the apartments. IMTU, Arbellatra's suite overlooked the Garden, but future Emperor's have selected other, better-protected apartments since then.
The space surrounding the aquarium is used up by lower class offices and project rooms. Most of the science conducted aboard the Imperial Palace is shoe-horned into the limited space. The Aquarium Management Group (a sub-group belonging to the Palace Staff, who report up through the Chamberlain of the Palace) is quartered here, including a crew of over two-hundred marine biologists and other, similar professions.
Close to the bottom, the science space ends, and engineering spaces take over, followed by the main landing bays.
The classic description has the "Octagon" as the throne room, but I can't help but feel that was a little small and quaint to serve as the seat of power for the Iridium Throne. I've got this idea about a much larger throne room, closer to the surface of the sphere. The throne is backed by giant stained glass windows, three hundred meters high, and the outer armor shell can retract in two door/segmenents and move to one side. Gravitics can turn the palace to face whichever way is desired. Well, it was just an idea.
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Yes, it is a pie in the sky project, literally. The amount of space available is so huge that a team of people would require a long time to complete it.
I'm wondering if I'm skilled enough to even get the basic framing down, and we'll see how it goes.
Currently, I plan to use some test files in Canvas 7 to figure out how I'm going to even begin approaching this.
I plan to have a ring of inner elevator shafts, six or twelve (with multiple elevators per shaft), all the way around the central column making up the aquarium and garden. The Garden is a cone, though, and not a cylinder like the aquarium. This means, to me, that the elevator shafts begin at the bottom floor of the Avionics Ring (after which a switch to other elevators via a heavily armed and armored checkpoint is required, for security purposes), as close to the garden cone as is feasible. They then run straight down. The garden cone itself is surrounded by suites (I'd hesitate to call anything so luxurious "apartments", but that's what they are, really) with giant windows overlooking the garden (but no balconies or ability to open the windows), and the windows are all one-way, so those in the Garden cannot view those in the apartments. IMTU, Arbellatra's suite overlooked the Garden, but future Emperor's have selected other, better-protected apartments since then.
The space surrounding the aquarium is used up by lower class offices and project rooms. Most of the science conducted aboard the Imperial Palace is shoe-horned into the limited space. The Aquarium Management Group (a sub-group belonging to the Palace Staff, who report up through the Chamberlain of the Palace) is quartered here, including a crew of over two-hundred marine biologists and other, similar professions.
Close to the bottom, the science space ends, and engineering spaces take over, followed by the main landing bays.
The classic description has the "Octagon" as the throne room, but I can't help but feel that was a little small and quaint to serve as the seat of power for the Iridium Throne. I've got this idea about a much larger throne room, closer to the surface of the sphere. The throne is backed by giant stained glass windows, three hundred meters high, and the outer armor shell can retract in two door/segmenents and move to one side. Gravitics can turn the palace to face whichever way is desired. Well, it was just an idea.
