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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, July 21, 2025 - 12:10 am: Edit

Thanks, Jeff.

I don't know ... perhaps, given their mission statement, they need as much redundancy and alternate processes as possible.

Minor typo above: it's not eight pairs of spiral staircases, it's eight stairwells in four pairs. The reason they're in pairs is because there is a center horizontal turbolift corridor on several decks blocking foot travel from left to right sides of the ship.


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By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, July 21, 2025 - 09:25 am: Edit

Small ship.

Not a lot of options, once it has been decided to include a turbolift system.

It appears to be an acceptable adaptation, if not Ideal.

Perhaps the next generation Federation Cutter design can offer an improvement, but off hand, I have no idea how that could be accomplished.

We have talked about the Federation FFG being a possible alternative, but again, it is another small ship, the main advantage being a saucer design as opposed to a rather longer, narrower one of comparable volume.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, July 21, 2025 - 12:42 pm: Edit

I made a /newurl{https://i.imgur.com/qMvKi7K.gif,saucer SSD} with all the same boxes from the POL / POL+, including same firing arcs. I suppose, in theory, a miniature and/or deck plans could be made for such a critter.

RE: Turbolifts -- very early on in the project, I asked SVC if I could do without, and he said he wanted them in due mainly for Module M rules.

I would have been happy to just use vertical-only elevators. Of course, thanks to Jeff W. and SPP, it does now have Cargo Lifts from Deck Eight up to Deck One.


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By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - 08:21 am: Edit

I still have the occasional nightmare of having to move drone reloads from low storage up to the shuttle bay for use in a scatter pack. Using stairs with a landing halfway up each deck level… reminds me of my college days helping friends move couches, refrigerators and larger sized bed box springs.

The worst one was an apartment stairwell far too small for the queen sized bed box spring.

We finally had to take the windows out of the frames and lift it up to the second floor thru the open window.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - 05:26 pm: Edit

Jeff, they would have fit perfectly fine in the Turbolift. I hate to admit it, but adding the extra length allowed me to fix a (very minor) issue with mismatched room sizes, plus gave the crew eight storage rooms for personal property.


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By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - 06:27 pm: Edit

Garth, you might consider writing an article to submit detailing the experience you gained in doing the deck plans.

Might not add anything to the canon or history, but might encourage other people to try doing deck plans.

Just a thought.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - 08:59 pm: Edit

Jeff,

Already done.


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By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - 06:32 am: Edit

I should have known!


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