Originally posted by Father Fletch:
Keep up the good work. I really appreciate all of your deck plans. Have you considered a design with a smaller owner’s cabin? Or do you visualize that as acting as the office for the merc platoon based aboard ship, thereby filling multiple purposes?
IIRC during the age of sail the captains cabin was often used as a surgery/officers infirmary during battles. I imagine that the owners cabin could fill much the same roles. BTW if it had really good C3I suites it could act as a battle control center.
The main reason I mention these other uses are because I always imagined space aboard ship at a premium.
Thanks!
Of course those spaces would be subject to multiple uses. On some ships the wardroom area might be customized for anything from a hospital to an exercise area to a cargo bay to a videogame parlor or holodeck.
Depends on the guy who owns the ship of course. Traditionally Broadswords have been privately owned and the original deckplans had the entire top deck reserved for the owner's use and some avionics.
Note that there's not quite as much room up there as you might think. About 25 dtons total, of which the owner's suite uses about 6 dtons. The multipurpose space (wardroom and stores) is about 9 dtons, the computer core is roughly 2 dtons, and the balance is avionics space.
6 dtons is not unreasonable for the guy who owns the ship IMHO -- besides he has to share the bathroom (unless he makes them go down to the bridge deck).
The biggest multi-use space up there is the wardroom. The troops have as much or more space in their marshalling area even if the tall ones do have to watch their heads.
For those interested the formula for volume of a dome or spherical cap (this was NOT easy to find) is:
V = (pi/6)*(3r^2 + h^2)*h
(from "Ask Dr. Math, Sphere Formulas":
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/formulas/faq.sphere.html )
