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I know you gave us a pretty good description of the exterior of the ship, but I'm having some questions regarding the interior.

According to your description, our 4 Klick long ship rotates in order to produce "gravity" (actually centrifugal force, since we're technically being thrown at the floor, away from the core). Therefore, it seems to me that our ship could be built in a circle within a circle within a circle design (or tube withing a tube), with the more critical components in the center to minimize risk. If we assume that the engines and engineering, the reactor core, and the engines make up the center (despite engineering being deck 1 and the core being deck 7), then that leaves 8 more decks to figure out the order for. Here's my suggestion:

Outer Hall and Armor
Storage/Hanger Bay
Living Quarters
Sickbay/Communications/Armoury/R&D/The Bridge
Engineering
Center: Reactor Core
Engineering
Sickbay/Communications/Armoury/R&D/The Bridge
Living Quarters
Storage/Hanger Bay
Outer Hull and Armor

The reasonings and explanations: Pretend the above is a cross-section of the ship. Past the outer hall we have the Hanger Bay and several levels of storage. The further away you go from the core, the bigger the decks have to get, so it stays a circle. This means we have a crap-load of storage, which can be sealed off with pressure doors in case of exposure to hard vacuum, much like modern day cruise ships. It also provides great protection for the next level down, the living quarters. My only defenses for making the living quarters so close to the outer hull is practicality, and space. Because the living quarters have the few level deep storage space above, it should be fairly well protected. It would also provide plenty of space for the large amount of crew necessary to keep this behemoth functional.
Next down we have Sickbay, Communications, the Armoury, R&D, and the Bridge. I lumped those onto one circle because they really don't need the same amount of space as the above levels. Instead, they should be sectioned off as you move horizontally down the tube. The Bridge should be at the front of the ship, followed by Communications, Sickbay, the Armoury, and R&D. That puts Sickbay in one of the safest positions of the ship: nearly dead center.
Next is Engineering, which should have it's own level as it (and the Core) form the hub of the ship, and monitors everything related to it, power-wise. The engines, fed by the core, are at the rear of this tube.
Elevators appear at regular intervals throughout the tubes, making it fairly simple to move about the ship, despite its rotation.

Now that I've burned out my brain building a star-ship from the ground up, I leave it to you, the reader, to correct, flame, etc.

 

Jeremy Grevan's Electronic Grievance Log, Entry One: "I can't believe I signed up for this shit."

So... yeah. The Shrinks have been telling me for years that I should write stuff down in a journal. That it would make me "feel better", or some shit like that. Never tried it before, though. But, now that I've got this fancy-schmancy PDA, what the hell.

Grievance #1: Supply Procurement, Transportation, and Disbursement. That was the only description of my new job I was given when I volunteered for this shit. Do you know what that means, little PDA? No? Ok, I'll tell you!
Pick up this box (Procurement!) take it to this location (Transportation!) and leave it there! (Disbursement!)
Yeah, that's what I do all day. All, fracking, DAY. "Go to location A! Pick up box A! Move box A to location B! Take box C to location F! No, not F! Q! And bring boxes R, T, and D with you! Now go back to location B and bring box A back to location A!"

I swear, If I ever get off this giant floating coffin I'm going to find the fracking bastard who told me about this "SWEET GIG!" and pound his fuck0a-asjdfsdjjklkjk;had;hfs

Without warning, the entire ship seemed to buck beneath Jeremy, flinging him and his PDA off the bed and onto the floor of his bunk. The lights went out, and a siren began to wail from somewhere in the ship. Lying there, shocked by the unexpected turn of events, he found himself reminded of a particular red-haired beauty who'd done much the same thing before snorting out a particularly dirty laugh before joining him on the floor.

The emergency lights snapped on. Jeremy looked up, to find his whole room in disarray. That buck had been strong enough to not only fling him around the room, but most of his furniture as well. A shattered tumbler of whiskey, it's contents criminally wasted on the floor, glittered like blood in the red glow of the emergency lights. Belatedly, Jeremy realized his PDA was beeping at him. He hoped the damn thing hadn't broken in the fall. He could only image the mountain of paperwork it would require to get a new one. Glancing at the device, he selected the glowing image that looked like and old-style Earth letter.

Crewman-Grevan, report to Deck 3.
Overseer Frederickson.

"Well, aren't you just a vague bastard?"
Jeremy considered staying right the hell where he was for the duration of whatever the crisis was, but quickly changed his mind. If he didn't follow orders, they'd probably assign him some kind of worse duty as punishment. He couldn't think of one off the top of his head, but if there was one thing he'd learned from life, it was that there really was no bottom to the bull-shit scale.

Grabbing his 10 mil from the drawer that used to be by his bed, Jeremy slipped into the darkened hallway.

Quote from: rickvoid on March 06, 2009, 09:25:22 pm

Move along folks, nothing to see here, seriously.

Quoting so I can call you on this later.

Poopy.

We're still missing rickvoid I guess, so no turn today.
Also don't forget:
We have a waiting list now!

 

Anyway, I attempt to commune with the very living rock, searching for more foes to slay.

Oh.

He's the one who mentioned Gaia in the first place.

...

Sorry?

Just picked up Disgaea DS at my local gaming store. Used. Cheap. Brought in by a guy who's save file suggested he played it for all of ten minutes.

I love people. 

Seriously though, in any other game talking Penguins that say "DOOD" would cause me to order an Exterminatus, but for some reason it works for this game. 

Spoiler: Me being harsh. I'm this vicious about profiles in RPs I run, so don't take it personally. (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Armok on March 05, 2009, 09:08:27 pm

Name: Sally Iaqanov Chi
Anime character name. Don't think we don't see it.
Gender: female
Age: 10, yes 10
This makes me roll my eyes.
Bio: Born on Europa (the moon, not the continent) she could count at 1, talk at 2, and program at 3.
WAIT WHAT?
She is a wonderchild whit an IQ of 163, but she's emotionally unstable and despite her skills she is still just a child.
HUEG advantage, disproprortionately small flaw.
She is a skilled programmer and hacker
No.
and she has photographic memory
No!
and have memorized large amounts of Wikipedia (at this time obviously even more wast than it is today)
NOOooooooo!
as well as some other stuff.
Carte blanche for any skill ever?
and at age 9 she ran away from home to "go adventuring",
I... you...? Seriously?
and after various events ended up on the vessel,
What the hell "various events" lead to THIS?
somewhere along all this she managed to get a wireless connection implant (no outside visible stuff, in fact I thinkeverything in this one already exists, and even widely used except the neural interface. It's only significant bonus is it allows her to communicate whit computers, which is a very significant bonus considering her hacking skills.).
That's all kinds of overpowered.
Her abilities are not caused by any tech or such, it's the same kind of phenomena like wonderchilds of today or historically.
Well, there's one problem.

I should probably also mention the ship systems think she's 19 and have some high position that is classified at a level of security implemented only for software testing purposes that wouldn't even let the head of state accesses the data, and wouldn't let anyone ELSE know what level of security it is. Yea, hacker.
AAAAARGHGBBLBLBL!!
(I hope I'm not godmoding)
... AAAAARAAAAAAAAAAGHGBBLBLBBBLBLLLBLBLBLLBLL!!!

please? She's not only a minor in name, she actually IS a child, and insane, not just a superhuman adult in a child body.
We still have that problem.
She is way not emotionally capable of a combat situation, and while her skills regarding information is extraordinary other skills like physical and social are at a normal level for a 10 year old.
Nobody has any viable skills, at all, and you want superhuman haxx0rz?
Also, it would HIGHLY surprise me if anyone working whit computers at that age DOESN'T have such an implant, the only reason I even mentioned it at all was that others might disagree and that most probably doesn't get it at 9.
How the hell did she get the damned thing at all?

Dude, you just made me choke on my friggen hamburger.

 
Good job!

As to Org's post in the IC thread... *facepalm*

This is why we can't have nice things. Seriously.