The Command Offices on the YSS Tokyo were designed by Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko in YE 41. They were designed custom for her and Motoyoshi Eri.
The Command Offices have access from one of the main corridors in the Command Tower and have a dedicated lift and stair access to the bridge (below), and the Taisho Suite (above). There are access doors to the Star Army Flag War room and another set of offices for Second Officer,Taisa Motoyoshi Kaoru and the Fleet's Special Liason Officer Shoi Kohosei Motoyoshi Tachiko.
The forward section also referred to as the outer offices of the Command Offices.
The lobby has polished black floors with the unit patch symbol of the YSS Tokyo imprinted into the floor. Two Star Army Clerks and Four other Star Army Crew devoted to security are on duty at all times as well as several Star Army Caretaker and other required staff.
The Command Office's Kitchen is set up less as a ship's galley than as a commercial-grade kitchen out of a fine dining restaurant– specifically, a Takeda House. The primary feature of the galley is the Emfratec Galley Master unit, providing stovetop burners, griddles, convection oven, and microwave all in one unit. An Emfratec Griller is to the side for grilling. The kitchen is well ventilated and the Star Army Fire Suppression System, Type 32 in the kitchen is extra-strength, as many of the dishes prepared use open flame grilling and flambé techniques.
The Kitchen is so designed that the cooking is done in the center, with the prep counters, storage, and dishwashing stations pushed to the outside. This arrangement allows multiple cooks to work at the same time, from different angles, and has a wide enough pathway around the perimeter for traffic to pass unhindered by the cooks.
Yaichiro's office is notable in that the walls and ceiling are all Volumetric Windows with projectors and force fields installed. Not only are they used as displays or to set the ambiance of a room on a whim from various possible settings, but they are also used for a panoramic internal view in starship design. The use of force fields and volumetric projections allow for interactive tactile displays, useful for meetings and design cooperation. It is not uncommon for the room to appear as if it were his living room in Kyoto, complete with an open walkway outside and a gentle wind being stirred up by the forcefields' oscillation. At other times it is simply an office with blue flooring and light blue walls. At other times, it may simply display the surroundings of the vessel as if the occupants and furniture were in open space. Yaichiro is more likely to prank people by making very subtle changes to color or structure though, so as to nag at their minds that something isn't quite right.
The furniture in the room includes a metal desk with a volumetric emitter on top, a padded desk chair for him to sit in, a computer terminal set to his right, and a locked filing cabinet for the rare paper or backup copies of necessary files. In front of his desk are three typically comfortable chairs in which people can sit. A nice addition is that Yaichiro can use the room's force field control to make the chairs' padding less comfortable by compressing it. If someone is in trouble or needs to be kept off-base for discussions, he is able to make certain the offending party is simply unable to get comfortable. This works well with the ability to change the office's appearance and mood.
The room also has a similarly outfitted couch, a water cooler, and a small end table with a locked drawer that holds a change of uniforms. As such, Yaichiro can pull all-nighters if absolutely required.
This is not the command briefing room, rather just a separate room so that either Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko or Motoyoshi Eri can book different meetings at the same time. It has a large oval-shaped table with ten chairs which include SPINE interfaces, manual access controls on the table, cup holder and connection hub for a Isolated Computer Pad or Star Army Datapad, Type 33. There is a volumetric projection system in the center of the table for giving presentations and also the capability to have projected screens at each seat.
Due to the size of the Izanagi-Class Dreadnought, the wishes of Taisho Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko were easily accommodated for a large, open office space. She didn't find the design of the combined office and suite of the standard Star Army Admiral's Suite and wanted her living and working areas connected but separated more than that design allowed.
The color palette of the Katsuko and Eri's Office.
The Colors selected are listed below.
The centerpiece of the Office is a cylindrical 15,000-gallon saltwater aquarium that is a managed artificial closed ecosystem thanks to the filtration and recycling units that are connected to the Nodal Liquid Conduit System. The aquarium is stocked with several species of bright and colorful tropical fish, a diverse selection of marine invertebrates (includes many rare Cnidaria species that Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko has taken interest in) and are all native to Jiyuu III. The aquarium has multi-colored lighting within the safe ranges for the species the tank hosts which also provides a changing aesthetic to the office environment. There are two access terminals at the base of the aquarium which allow for adjustment of the internal environment as well as a database of biological data on each species.
There are models of the YSS Tokyo, YSS Namiko, YSS Akuro, YSS Akuro II and YSS Akuro III in the tank as decorations.
Taisho Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko and Shôshô Motoyoshi Eri tend to move meetings to the sitting area located just inside of the door from the Lobby and Security Area or the Conference Room. The seating area features a large Star Army Hinomaru woven into the silk carpet in front of the massive aquarium.
Three comfortable leather couches are arranged in a square formation facing inwards with one couch facing the aquarium positioned forward of the door to the lobby. Two comfortable chairs are also placed facing inwards flank either side at the corners. A Coffee-style table of carved oak from Jiyuu III sits in the center of the formation within reach of all the seating.
The back corner of the office, to the left of the aquarium is devoted to workspace for Taisho Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko and Shôshô Motoyoshi Eri.
The desks are set up to face each other to provide an “across-desk” collaborative workspace to share information back and forth, but a privacy screen can be activated for the security of information if required. Each desk has a set of drawers on each side and a SPINE equipped command-style chair. The desks have interface setups for Isolated Computer Pad or Star Army Datapad, Type 33 as well as volumetric projection systems for screens or the construction of dimensional models in the immediate area of the desks. All desk setups are Virtual Collective Experience capable.
Taisho Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko has two fully equipped starship drafting tables designed for volumetric model creation and manipulation geared towards the design of new Star Army Starship Classes. One table is devoted to Ketsurui Fleet Yards and the other to the Yugumo Corporation.
There are many storage drawers and cabinets including a small armory located in the Command Office.
The office area is decorated with several oil paintings, and trinkets and relics from the Star Army of Yamatai past. This includes artifacts on loan from the Hummingbird Keep Museum at Jiyuu Jo.
Some of the Oil Paintings in the Command Office.
Other artifacts in the Office Collection are listed below.
This page was originally created on 2020/02/20 11:43 by Andrew.
