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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] OK, OK. I'll break down and answer this silly hypothetical. [b]Physical Characteristics[/b] Mine would be about ten feet long, four feet wide, and three to four feet tall. It would have an arrowhead shape for optimal aerobraking into the orbits of planets with substantial atmospheres. [b]Propulsion[/b] My ship would have three medium sized ion engines on the aft end for acceleration and deployable magnetic sails for deacceleration where aerobraking was not possible. There would also be a displacement drive for interstellar travel. [b]Power[/b] Three main medium sized fast fusion reactors powered by helium-3 isotopes with three smaller auxiliary matter/antimatter drives. I'm assuming for the purposes of this that helium-3 is more common in the galaxy than antimatter and as such more viable as a fuel. [b]Computers[/b] Three connected servers that are respectively dedicated to personal, ship's systems, and collected data (ie resultant from exploration). They are of course, quantum computers. [b]Personnel[/b] A crew of a 100, give or take. Each crewmember has his or her own small stateroom. Since I have no idea what hygiene will be like in the distant future, I'll say that every ten crewmembers share a 'bathroom'. There will be a captain, an XO that doubles as the Chief Science Officer (hey, it just makes sense). The crew will be divided into two disciplines; exploration and ship's systems. For the sake of fairness, we'll say that its divided half and half; 50 scientists and 50 engineers. The engineers are responsible for maintanence and piloting. Science is divided into the major fields of science. Physics, Biology, Planetology (in place of geology, which refers to Earth specifically), Chemistry, and Astronomy/Astrophysics. Each of these will have their own dedicated labs with equipment and be further sub-divided into their individual sub-fields. The medical staff will be an off-shoot of the Science Departmant. The Chief Medical Officer will also be the head of the Biology Division. He/She will have a staff of four (to bring the medical staff to a total of five). All other crew members will be trained in basic medicine(read: whatever the CPR level is in the distant future). [b]Layout[/b] Sickbay will be located on the same deck as the crewquarters on the aft end. It will be an all purpose emerency room/operating room/dental suite/intensive care/etc. It shall be engineered thusly. There will be no children. There will be a bridge. Main engineering will be centered around the displacement drive, and include the fusion reacters as the outer tips, as the reactors surround the drive creating a triangle. The uppermost deck will be the bridge, which will be a low-profile superstructure. Below that will be the crew quarters and sickbay on Deck 2. Deck 2 will also include recreational and communal areas that could serve a variety of functions from mess hall to gymnasium, etc. Deck 3 are the science labs and additional multi-purpose space. Deck 4 is Engineering and ship's systems containing all the machinery to run the ship. Deck 5 would be the hanger bays and robotic bays. [b]Landing Craft[/b] There will be total of five SSTO ships capable of landing on a planetoid and reaching orbit again from up to a 2g gravity well. Each of these will be able to carry up to 5 crewmembers at a time and a thousand kilograms worth of cargo. The foward end of Deck 5 will include cargo holds and the aft end will consist of machine shops dedicated to robotic contrustion. There will be robots of every possible configuration and capable of every possible function. And the bricks will be randomly colored, of course. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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