Ensign Gavrin Tarsan - Supporting Structures
Sean Sabbage
(( USS Artemis-A, Deck 13, Shuttle storage bay ))
Gavrin had settled in to listen to Bergmen talk about his new design for a ship, already taking notes on his PADD the whole time.
Bergmen: It’s both… voidfaring and atmospheric. For space, you can see the deflector here on top. Will be powered by a subimpulse engine for velocity, plus RCS thrusters for maneuvers. ::turns to Tarsan before he returns back to holomodel:: But then, in atmosphere… ::turn the model back and spreads the fingers:: it changes the frame and wing geometry, so we get dynamic aeroflow to glide while the inlets open, and turbines start as the subimpulse manifold close. Those turbines then provide jet-vectoring velocities for flight. For both modes, we will use deuterium gas as the propellant.
The Ensign’s eyes widened as he leaned in a little closer to look at the hologram. It was very clear to him that Ollie had spent a lot of time designing this ship, and for some reason had decided to include Gavrin in the building of it. What was that human expression? Never look a gift horse in the ear? Gavrin had never understood it. What was so special about ears? Why couldn’t you look in them? He resolved not to worry about it.
Tarsan: Has any of it been fabricated yet? I think I saw some simulation results as well?
The sound that Ollie made was probably meant to be reassuring, but to Gavrin’s ears it sounded suspicious.
Bergmen: Both the subimpulse ionization engine and the turbine compression manifolds are quite old concepts. ::pulls his fingers together and the aeroshuttle folds back into space-shaped variant:: Together used… There are a couple of historical examples of different species with propulsion and variable geometry. It had some early implementation teething, but with the new materials we have now, it shouldn’t be a problem. And as I tested the basic and advanced mechanics against the frame dynamics, all went well in the sims.
Teething. Yes that was not a reassuring word to hear when talking about space ships.
oO Gift horse gift horse Oo
Bergmen: Don’t worry, Mr. Tarsan. It will be fun.
Tarsan: I’m sure it will be! So, where are we going to be building it?
Gavrin looked to where Ollie was pointing, towards one wall of the storage bay.
Bergmen: The only downside is that, even with all the automation here, we will still need to build supporting scaffolding to build the frame core, but after that, it will be a piece of cake; we will then just need to build an aeroshuttle around that. ::shruggs:: I know, a lot of manual work, but that’s the price for building something special… ::smiles::
Tarsan: I’m no stranger to manual work, Lieutenant. Really, taking things apart and putting them back together has always been a hobby of mine. It’s kind of how I got into Engineering.
oO Oh gods could I be any more of a cliche? Oo
Tarsan: So, is the plan to start with the scaffolding frame today?
Bergmen: response
The Ensign opened up his PADD again, starting to page through the specifications as Ollie talked. Aha! There they were. He brought them up, flipping them over to the hologram generator so that the first part of the fabrication was clear. Gavrin lent in a little closer to it.
Tarsan: I think we’re going to need a little more strength on this support here - it’ll be fine once we’ve got the whole core in because that’ll be balanced with the other supports, but based on the order in which we’re going to build it, there’s a point about halfway through where it’s going to be holding more than it’s rated for.
Bergmen: response
Gavrin nodded, already starting to make the necessary amendments to the support scaffolding. Something suddenly occurred to him.
Tarsan: Uh, just checking, we have permission, right? To build it here?
Bergmen: response
TBC/Tag