Posted by Jennifer Ward in Specification Review: Nightingale-class Cruiser (Medical) - Review OPEN Until October 24, 2020

Posted by Fleet Captain Russell Watt (Assistant Engineering Director) in Specification Review: Nightingale-class Cruiser (Medical) - Review OPEN Until October 24, 2020

Posted by Fleet Captain Russell Watt (Assistant Engineering Director) in Specification Review: Nightingale-class Cruiser (Medical) - Review OPEN Until October 24, 2020
CHANGELOG
* reassigned the psychiatry ares to its own deck (Deck 7) and developed a concrete layout, delineating the ward from the crew therapy space
* amended and described modules more where necessary
* reduced offensive capabilities in the ship itself, and the combat module
* reduced science labs and made many of the more multipurpose
* CSO office space and crew quarters on Deck 7 moved to Deck 8
* Adjusted Shuttlebayes to be two decks tall
* added back in the tactical station to the bridge that was accidentally deleted
* added a list of common Codes
* adjusted crew size and complement to fix previous counting error and expanding it slightly according to feedback
* added command system interface for GALEN to computer section and elaborated on basica repairs that can be done from the bridge

NIGHTINGALE-CLASS

CATEGORY: CRUISER
VARIANT: MEDICAL
DESIGNER(S): Lindsay Bayes, Cale Reilly
SECONDARY DESIGNER: Nicholas Villarreal
Mark I
Draft 2
DATE: 7 October 2020

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Please accept my apologies for the mess I made of the specs.

Russell

One thing that confuses me. Some decks are numbers and some are letters. And reading it some areas appear to be on both a number and a letter deck. I found this hard to follow.
Jenn

In the description of the structure, this is explained: “The bottom three decks of the primary hull connect to the top three decks of the engineering hull. Due to the nature of the Nightingale, the design team used numbers to identify the decks of the primary hull and letters to identify the decks of the secondary hull. Thus, the primary hull has Decks 1 through 10 and the engineering hull has Decks A through H, even though the overall vessel is only fifteen decks in height.”

Think of the ship as being constructed in two pieces and connected along that seam line. While this class doesn’t do a saucer separation, treating where they join up as a place to add in extra protections, allows the engineering area and secondary medical area to protect the rest of the ship from issues originating lower down, and the primary medical area to keep issues higher up on the ship from affecting things lower down.

If it helps to have a visual, look at the ship image that has the deck labelling (https://imgur.com/4tA1m7B) you can imagine walking down the corridor on Deck 10 and the bulkheads will be labelled Deck 10. But then you pass through a door and you are now in the engineering hull and on Deck C.

Does that help?

~Linds