I must've lurked here something fierce over the last year or two. Work and study keep me from making any meaningful contribution here thus far, so until such time I can join the fray proper, I'll stick a few things here, mostly things worked on and off as time permits. Things mostly related to the histories of potential characters, as the thread name may imply.
Might as well start off with my current (as seen on the 28th of September, 2015) profile picture. It's an old, now seemingly little used freighter within the forums. One of the old DOGA (I think) ships that lingers largely forgotten within the wiki. It seems simple, but I rather like the design for some reason. Written up paragraphs about the (maybe) features and failings of a design this old. It is the Ge-F6-1A light freighter (or an earlier mark of it anyway). I envisage it as a low tech resurrection of a battered hulk. No good profile shots from the wiki page, so I've had to eyeball lots of it.
Oh, and... large images ahoy!
First off, a look at the workspace. Lots of clutter. Light blue objects to the right are the pipe elements for the ship's cooling systems. Most prominent is one of the radiator arrays (which exists as a paired set in smaller scale at the rear of the vessel. Purple objects to the top left are the air ducts that move air throughout the ship, and also to the air scrubber unit. Still working out how to thread it through the vessel (we must have a system to pump air into a room, and also to pump it out). Primary air scrubber/filtration/purification system will probably be installed in the forward hull within the roof cavity.
Two views of some interesting machinery. I've dithered back and forth over whether they ought to be reactors or drive units... I eventually settled on a combination of the two, with a big focus on the latter. Need a lot more detail (wiring, hoses, piping and whatnot) to make it look busier. Also need to think of getting a nozzle system installed. These will be plasma drives (poor ones at that) that push out hydrogen, and in SHTF situations, will accept oxygen into the reaction chamber to function as an emergency liquid thruster engine for oodles more power.
Here we have a close up of the radiator arrays situated on the top of the engineering bay towards the rear of the ship. Not sure if I should leave as is, or tighten up the spacing between the pipes. The shapes that can be seen in sections of the radiator piping are meant to be valves: in the even of damage to sections of the radiator piping, ideally these valves would work to lock out damaged portions, limiting coolant loss to space. Also visible (extending roughly from mid-picture to bottom right) are the cooling system bleed pipes; when normal cooling isn't enough, heated coolant can be vented into space, at the loss of cooling capability later on.
Here we have one of the attitude thruster units. The external part that sits above the plating (everything above that large disc) was largely patterned after these, save for the extended, slanted shroud. Propellant tanks are arranged around the accelerator unit (still undergoing work). A lone, unconnected propellant tank is visible to the left. They will exist in pairs (as per their inspiration) upon the vessel at its extremities where possible.
Almost pretty bare. View of the central corridor in the front half of the ship, looking towards the stern. Visible are the air outlets (to be changed for something more industrial later). On each side will be a large cupboard (one for ship computronics methinks) and beyond that, doors to the master bedrooms. This ship was once something of a VIP transport. Not nearly so much now, though.
Take away that plating and the image becomes a fair bit more interesting though.
Some plating. The left is your bog standard steel plating, and now obsolete (didn't like it). The one on your right would be your grav plating, the stuff on the roof and floor that keeps you right side up, even when your ship is doing two thousand rolls a second (well, maybe not then). Old tech again, but nostalgic for one so inclined. Honeycomb structure so I can make most areas exist with some degree of gravity. We'll see where it goes next...
And there they go. Notice there are two distinct layers of that lattice stuff? The upper layer (closest to our point of view) would be welded to the hull. Grav plates go under that. Add another lattice. Add final steel sheeting. Makes me wonder how they'll get to the grav plates for repair/replacement... something to think about later.
Here we have a shot of the starboard pylon interior (which would have once been a fuel tank, in the early, pre-Geshrinari built vessels in my mind). Very bare at the moment. Dining table sitting by itself in the middle, with the kitchen at the far end. Visible are the ribs of the ship's frame protruding from between the plating. Still working on placement of various appliances for the kitchen.
The style of doors/drawers to be employed in the kitchen. Pretty minimalistic, no handles to bang your knee or head against.
~TBC...
Might as well start off with my current (as seen on the 28th of September, 2015) profile picture. It's an old, now seemingly little used freighter within the forums. One of the old DOGA (I think) ships that lingers largely forgotten within the wiki. It seems simple, but I rather like the design for some reason. Written up paragraphs about the (maybe) features and failings of a design this old. It is the Ge-F6-1A light freighter (or an earlier mark of it anyway). I envisage it as a low tech resurrection of a battered hulk. No good profile shots from the wiki page, so I've had to eyeball lots of it.
Oh, and... large images ahoy!
First off, a look at the workspace. Lots of clutter. Light blue objects to the right are the pipe elements for the ship's cooling systems. Most prominent is one of the radiator arrays (which exists as a paired set in smaller scale at the rear of the vessel. Purple objects to the top left are the air ducts that move air throughout the ship, and also to the air scrubber unit. Still working out how to thread it through the vessel (we must have a system to pump air into a room, and also to pump it out). Primary air scrubber/filtration/purification system will probably be installed in the forward hull within the roof cavity.
Two views of some interesting machinery. I've dithered back and forth over whether they ought to be reactors or drive units... I eventually settled on a combination of the two, with a big focus on the latter. Need a lot more detail (wiring, hoses, piping and whatnot) to make it look busier. Also need to think of getting a nozzle system installed. These will be plasma drives (poor ones at that) that push out hydrogen, and in SHTF situations, will accept oxygen into the reaction chamber to function as an emergency liquid thruster engine for oodles more power.
Here we have a close up of the radiator arrays situated on the top of the engineering bay towards the rear of the ship. Not sure if I should leave as is, or tighten up the spacing between the pipes. The shapes that can be seen in sections of the radiator piping are meant to be valves: in the even of damage to sections of the radiator piping, ideally these valves would work to lock out damaged portions, limiting coolant loss to space. Also visible (extending roughly from mid-picture to bottom right) are the cooling system bleed pipes; when normal cooling isn't enough, heated coolant can be vented into space, at the loss of cooling capability later on.
Here we have one of the attitude thruster units. The external part that sits above the plating (everything above that large disc) was largely patterned after these, save for the extended, slanted shroud. Propellant tanks are arranged around the accelerator unit (still undergoing work). A lone, unconnected propellant tank is visible to the left. They will exist in pairs (as per their inspiration) upon the vessel at its extremities where possible.
Almost pretty bare. View of the central corridor in the front half of the ship, looking towards the stern. Visible are the air outlets (to be changed for something more industrial later). On each side will be a large cupboard (one for ship computronics methinks) and beyond that, doors to the master bedrooms. This ship was once something of a VIP transport. Not nearly so much now, though.
Take away that plating and the image becomes a fair bit more interesting though.
Some plating. The left is your bog standard steel plating, and now obsolete (didn't like it). The one on your right would be your grav plating, the stuff on the roof and floor that keeps you right side up, even when your ship is doing two thousand rolls a second (well, maybe not then). Old tech again, but nostalgic for one so inclined. Honeycomb structure so I can make most areas exist with some degree of gravity. We'll see where it goes next...
And there they go. Notice there are two distinct layers of that lattice stuff? The upper layer (closest to our point of view) would be welded to the hull. Grav plates go under that. Add another lattice. Add final steel sheeting. Makes me wonder how they'll get to the grav plates for repair/replacement... something to think about later.
Here we have a shot of the starboard pylon interior (which would have once been a fuel tank, in the early, pre-Geshrinari built vessels in my mind). Very bare at the moment. Dining table sitting by itself in the middle, with the kitchen at the far end. Visible are the ribs of the ship's frame protruding from between the plating. Still working on placement of various appliances for the kitchen.
The style of doors/drawers to be employed in the kitchen. Pretty minimalistic, no handles to bang your knee or head against.
~TBC...
