Blueprint conundrum or not

POSTED BY: ManiacNumberOne
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MANIACNUMBERONE

Thursday, April 3, 2003 8:53 AM

I was wrong about that gorram door. I think that I need a little more closer looks at the crew quarters that I haven't already checked out. just gotta take em one at a time.
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Who's winning?
I don't know, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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SUCCATASH

Friday, April 4, 2003 5:18 AM

That little piece of info put me over the 60% complete mark.

The suspense is killing me!

NOOCYTE

Friday, April 4, 2003 6:05 AM

Agreed! Having watched (and, I hope, helped) the ideas behind this project evolve, I've been growing increasingly stoked.

Indeed, an argument could be made --should the gear and wares be available-- for purdifying these schematics and posting them in a form suitable for hi-qual color printing. Might make a dandy little poster...

Then, Maniac, you could vie with TRS80 for the longest thread, with the most uses of the word, "shiny!"

Good luck!

Department of Redundancy Department

MANIACNUMBERONE

Friday, April 4, 2003 8:33 AM

I hope that my work is not all in vain. I am also looking forward to being done.
Thanks for your support everybody. Well, it's 1:30 a.m. here. I just got home from 8 hrs of data entry, and now I am stoked to work on this project. I love Firefly. I just love it.

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Who's winning?
I don't know, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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ANND

Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:12 PM

I've been thinking lately about the second entrance to the bridge. I don't think it's the door off the foredeck (the gangway that the crew quarters open off of). I just doesn't make sense to ever go in that door, because the stairs to the other entrance are right next to it. My theory is that there's an entrance to the lower bridge that connects with the catwalks on the second level, near the shuttles. In OiS, they leave Inara's shuttle and then end up coming up the ladder from the lower Bridge. Maybe it's below the foredeck, running between the crew quarters.

Ann

NOOCYTE

Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:43 PM

Hmmm... I don't know that there would be enough room between the crew quarters for a proper corridor...maybe some kind of access crawlway, but nothing the likes of Inara would deign to scramble through if an alternative existed. The quarters are actually surprisingly roomy, and probably extend inboard for some distance, probably even sharing walls beneath the corridor's floor. Plus, I don't think Serenity's bridge module has enough vertical extent for a door on the upper level of the cargo deck to be able to lead to a corridor making a bee-line for the ship's 'head.' Almost certainly, the door to port of the staircase to the bridge leads to an equipment bay, or computer mainframes, or what-have-you, just beneath the bridge, which is where the staircase on the inside of the bridge also leads.

Still, it is useful to think outside the box like this; it stimulates conversation and often exposes hidden assumptions which turn out not to be tenable. And, hopefully, it'll help Maniac with the Project. Thoughts?

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NOOCYTE

Monday, April 7, 2003 3:27 PM

By the way, I know that the "scale" conversation died down a while ago, but I thought I'd add something. Just watched "Bushwacked" again last night. All I can say is "duh." That long pull-back when Simon and River are EVA to hide from the Purple-Bellies is IMO a perfectly to-scale representation (actually, the Feds visible through the window are composited into the frame a tad too big, but Simon and River's size relative to Serenity seems right on the money (as compared to Mal and River in OiS, who are half-again too large). Just thought I'd throw that in the mix.

Keep flyin'!

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MANIACNUMBERONE

Monday, April 7, 2003 6:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Noocyte:
Hmmm... I don't know that there would be enough room between the crew quarters for a proper corridor...maybe some kind of access crawlway, but nothing the likes of Inara would deign to scramble through if an alternative existed. The quarters are actually surprisingly roomy, and probably extend inboard for some distance, probably even sharing walls beneath the corridor's floor. Plus, I don't think Serenity's bridge module has enough vertical extent for a door on the upper level of the cargo deck to be able to lead to a corridor making a bee-line for the ship's 'head.' Almost certainly, the door to port of the staircase to the bridge leads to an equipment bay, or computer mainframes, or what-have-you, just beneath the bridge, which is where the staircase on the inside of the bridge also leads.

I would tend to agree with your general assessment about the door portside of the stairs leading to the bridge. I think that it is indeed the second entrance to the bridge. I am unsure of the exact dimesions behind that door, but I can extrapolate. I don't think it precludes a passageway between crew quarters though. (Although I believe there isn't one either.) But from what I have seen, the stairs going down to crew quarters are almost flush against the wall. That woud leave plenty of room for a corridor underneath the corridor that we just haven't seen. Serenity is much bigger than most would expect. I am getting closer to a finished layout. 70% complete.

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Who's winning?
I don't know, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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NOOCYTE

Friday, April 11, 2003 4:45 AM

Pardon the bump.

Just checking in with ManiacNumberOne on the goings-on in the Visualization Department. Godspeed!

Also, I had a thought about the space under the forward corridor floor. I'd got turned around (me and my pesky spatial skills...just a slight parietal lesion, doc; no need for the holo-imager) and imagined the rooms stretching out inboard of the hatch/ladder. You're right that there ought to be enough room for a hallway. But I agree that there probably isn't one.

It occurs to me that a whole lot of electronic cabling, ducts, etc. would have to connect with the rest of the ship from the bridge (not to mention plumbing from the Murphy Loos to reclamation [a notion which would argue against a good reception for chocolate frosting on a cake...sorry ]!), even factoring in 500-odd years of tech miniaturization. This space is really the only logical place for it...possibly acessed by lifting up the grates on the corridor floor.

More on scale (ah, the male preoccupation with size... ) do folks have thoughts on my belief that the pull-back (River/Simon EVA) shot from Bushwhacked is a pretty bang-on illustration of Serenity's scale? Is anyone else slavering messily and embarassingly at the prospect of seeing those exteriors from "Trash" (see, as he deftly avoids the spoiler!)?!?

Anyway, keep flyin'!

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MANIACNUMBERONE

Friday, April 11, 2003 9:35 AM

Well Noocyte, and everyone else, I have come to a few conclusions about Serenity, and they have led me to believe that I am 85% complete. I wish I knew more about the ship, but what I do have, I will be posting soon. I have a few more hrs of work before that though, which translates into a few days...so be as patient as you have been already and soon you will be somewhat rewarded I hope.

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Who's winning?
I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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