Topic: What Doesn't Kill Us...
A reader expressed a desire to "see" what the Anomaly (now identified as an Alien spaceship) looks like. I've prepared some crude drawings that I refer to when writing descriptive prose in the novel. It help to keep my own mind straight as to what is where.
Contents of each deck:
Deck 1 (Di-Wah)
Engineering (both workshops and technical engineering spaces)
Maneuvering engines (4)
Drive engines (4)
Hangar Bay (with “garage” style door and 1 cargo shuttle)
Environmental tanks (water/liquid slurry/liquefied oxygen)
Landing Jack control room
Dry Storage rooms
Elevators to ground level (when docked or grounded)
Probe storage and launch tubes (on outer bulkhead)
Life Support equipment (storage and active)
Deck 2 (Hoy!)
Research Labs (and Probe control room)
Staterooms
Lounges
Dining Hall
Conference Rooms
Classrooms (large viewscreen at the front of each room)
Engineering Control Room
Hydroponics Bays (rows and rows of “green stuff” and other slurry)
“Gravity training room”
First Officer’s Cabin
Command and Control computer room (LOTS of lights/indicators and obvious control boards)
Dry Consumables storage
Library (hundreds of “record-style” disks and readers)
Clerical offices (with terminals connected to the Library computer)
Deck 3 (Znath)
Control Room or Bridge (comms, engineering, scanning, life support, probe controls)
Navigator's Study (another trove of “record disks” dealing with stellar navigation)
Captain’s Cabin
Officer’s Galley and Dining
Small Shuttles (2 x 2-person and 2 x 4-person – all similar to Terran “light twin” aircraft interiors)
Smaller Docking Bay (with sliding door) (also many ROVs)
Supervisory crew quarters
Sick Bay (medical machines, exam tables (3))
Recreation Room (3D holographic gaming display, various gaming tables, bar)
Keypad Sealed Room (probably Security Center – opens with correct Sneezy setting)If you have any questions, or even better, suggestions, please don't hesitate to add a comment to the thread.
Bill
