Hey, folks. A newbie here, looking for some advice... I've been intrigued with some of the MSDs I've found in here as well as on the web, and I was looking for some advice on their design, especially as they would pertain to an Olympic-Clas ship. I've got a preliminary cross section completed, and would like some advice on creating it's MSD. Thanks! Jb
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
I did a bunch of MSD's on my own a while back, here's my version of the Olympic:
Be careful not to make the entire habitable volume of the ship living quarters.. many decks would probably have a corridor at the centerline, so show a few of those, just to keep it visually interesting. Most ships seem to have a whole lot of the residential quarters with windows, so theyd be around the edge, not in the middle. the spaces near the hull that arent 'deck height' could be shown filled with pipe greeblies or whatever to give the illusion of life support machinery
the living quarters thing really ticks me off when everyone just fills a whole ship up with lined-up beds and desks. show a transporter room, a cargo bay, holodeck, rec deck and sickbay too!
and the basics: computer core starts right under the bridge and goes down to the sensory (the dome at the bottom of the primary hull if its got one) or a captains yacht there if its a newer ship, warp core with PTCs to the nacelles, a shuttlbay, turbolift system (dont forget horizontal tubes and elevator car stopping alcoves)
[ November 02, 2001: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]
Posted by Jb (Member # 724) on :
Thanks for the advice. I'm much impressed by your rendition, MinutiaeMan, in fact my cross section was very similar to yours, and yours made me realize a few mistakes in my own design (including having the warp core in an area where it would seem not to be able to be ejected... Back to the drawing board! Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Yeah, I went a little overboard with the lined up living quarters and the sickbay facilities. IIRC, my reasoning was that the Olympic was an emergency response vessel, and therefore needed to have lots of extra room for casualties and evacuees.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Which is good reasoning. One would hope medical rescue ships would have lots of beds to put people. The sick on the cold, dank floor just don't cut it, yo.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Yeah, the Galaxy may have that nice statistic of being able to evacuate up to 15,000 people from disaster areas, but most of them would be stuck in a shuttlebay or a cargo bay or a holodeck. Not a very comfortable prospect.
Posted by Jb (Member # 724) on :
Actually, a medical ship with extensive holographic abilities might be perfect for large scale triage. Wasn't this mentioned somewhere before?
Posted by Ace (Member # 389) on :
How? You'd still need a really big holodeck, and the power required to operate such a holodeck or group of holodecks...
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Oooh, now that's a really cool idea, Jb. Like 30 EMHs. Trauma rooms on demand. Any surgical tool you need is right there. Of course this wouldn't be much good in the middle of a battle, but if things were quiet, it could be really great. In fact, there wouldn't be any reason not to make it look like a real hospital on earth (or wherever) to make the patients feel more comfortable.
