Condottiere
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I've done one of those.
What's important, are the landing struts.
What's important, are the landing struts.
Type S as a Tailsitter Prolate Spheroid
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Decks ought to be on 3m spacing; so am assuming that's a typo. (Technically, 2.2m floor-to-ceiling with 0.3m of inter-deck space for plumbing and vents. Would need to measure what I actually ended up doing though....)
Darnit! I was trying to help!
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Something something Kerbal space program.
Yeah,
3m not 6m
If it were KSP I'd just lithobrake......
One detail I overlooked: there needs to be some sort of dumbwaiter so the flight crew doesn't need to climb the ladder to the bridge while carrying coffee cups and/or snacks. It might just be the equivalent of a milk crate on a rope, though.
(Noticed the problem because I'm considering swapping out the starship that some of my fanfic characters are using.)
(Noticed the problem because I'm considering swapping out the starship that some of my fanfic characters are using.)
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Badenov
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Might be easier to have a small food synthesizer (3D printer just for food) on each deck rather than burn the space on a special elevator for food. Or, alternately, a lift for people that will let you rise up without needing to climb. The difference between a lift shaft and a passageway is direction in any event.
The "milk crate on a rope" is something I actually do at home! There's a narrow and steep spiral stairway down to the garage/basement, and I have a large shopping bag on the end of a rope for items too awkward to carry up or down the stairs. (Safety warning: remove jewelry and wear gloves when lifting more than a token payload, to avoid rope burns or worse.) On this ship, it has the advantage of being controlled by the "up-hill" end, which prevents the old "toss a grenade into the elevator and send it to the floor where your adversaries are" trick.
But yeah, a drinks dispenser and maybe a snack fridge are in order up there.
Spinward Flow
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If you need a vertical access, especially through multiple decks, you're far better off (from a deck plan perspective) installing a Grav Lift rather than using a ladder + hatch/iris valve setup. It's why I set up my "modular box" system with a Grav Lift as the access method in the vertical axis when stacking the modular boxes in arrays of vertical stacking.
An additional advantage of a Grav Lift shaft, when laying out deck plans, is that it both can (and I would argue, should!) be designed as a multi-axis airlock, meaning bounded by bulkhead walls (and decks). This can then be key to compartmentalizing interior spaces into compartments bounded by bulkheads which can be used to "segment" interior volumes for both security and damage control reasons.
