Serenity layout

POSTED BY: TallGuy
UPDATED: Sunday, February 8, 2004 22:28
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ANND

Friday, March 28, 2003 6:16 PM

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Originally posted by Werespaz:
From what I can tell, you can look all the way down from the bottom of the stairs leading up to the bridge clear through the dining area and into the engine room. While the cargo bay may be two stories tall, there's nothing else (that I know of) on the second floor, basically making the first floor really tall, with serenity only having two distinct floors (that's also what I gather from the set descriptions). Does this answer your question?

-The SpAz

Right, but if you look at the outside of the ship, where's the engine room? Is it inside the glowy part (the firely for Serenity)? In that case, It doesn't seem to make sense as being aft of the common room, I think it should be down a level (which it's clearly not).

Ann

WERESPAZ

Friday, March 28, 2003 7:33 PM

After looking at an exterior shot, I see what you mean. I'm guessing it's actually not supposed to be in the glowy part, but it would seem that even it it wasn't the rotary part of the engine that's actually in the engine room itself would have to line up with the central part of the glowy thingy. (sorry for the overtechnical terms) Unless the dining area is much bigger than it looks, but that would but it on the same level as the shuttles, which doesn't work either. I dunno, I need to see a good full side view to totally understand.

-The SpAz

TALLGUY

Friday, March 28, 2003 9:23 PM

I'm working on sets of screen shots to try and line much of this stuff up.

I never figured that the engine room was in the center of the spinner. It's definitely on the upper deck. It's even higher than the mess room since there is a step up. (Well, the interconnecting corridor is. Now that I think on it there's probably a corresponding step down into the engine room.)

One of my other questions is, where does the ladder in the center of the bridge go? In Our Mrs. Reynolds someone says Saffron sealed "both entrances". So it obviously comes out somewhere else, but where? My guess is something that runs between the four crew berths and comes out on the upper deck of the cargo bay. But I don't recall ever seeing it.

Bill
"We all know I'm the funny one."
"You ain't all that funny."

WERESPAZ

Friday, March 28, 2003 9:29 PM

Yes, that part has perplexed me too, but I think I've got it figured out. First, there are step leading up from the crew berths to the bridge, and if you look closeley you'll see a door next to the stairs. I beleive there's a scene in one of the eps that shows that door open with what look like more control panels similar to the one that Wash sits at. I don't know what that room is for, maybe it's some kind of navigation computer equipment room or something along those lines. Doesn't seem like many people go in or out of there, so there can't be anything to important there. I'll have to watch OMR again and look very closely, maybe I missed something.

-The SpAz

GAIDHEAL

Sunday, February 8, 2004 9:14 PM

To put some speculation on Serenity's interior to rest, I've constructed some fairly accurate floor plans. These are based on screen-caps from all episodes and only represent Serenity's interior (the real world touchy feely stuff). I leave the CGI exterior to Zoic. I can only assume that they based their ship creation off the shooting set blueprints. I've left both images large to allow viewing of some of the finer details. I'm currently working on the side view connecting all deck levels.

Any questions about or discrepancies on these plans, please let me know.

TALLGUY

Sunday, February 8, 2004 9:25 PM

Good NIGHT, but that's a beautiful thing!

I can't believe that's it's been near a year since I started this thread! Yowza!

Bill
"We all know I'm the funny one."
"You ain't all that funny."

SAINT JAYNE

Sunday, February 8, 2004 10:28 PM

Thanks for the work on the Serenity blueprint. It looks highly detailed.

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