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Re: O.S.S. Pastier
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Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:55:51 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jeff Pelletier wrote:
> In lugnet.space, Nick Kappatos wrote:>
> > - 25-fig crew? If I was in that type of space with that many people for an
> > extended time, I would cut someone. Throw a handful into the airlock and hit
> > "eject" as you continue the storyline.
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> This is something I debated for a great while. The backstory is that the entire
> population was jammed on ships for years and had become used to such crowding.
> That was reason A. But reason B was that when I started doing the logistics of
> a ship that had everything in it that the Pastier did I started realizing
> something:
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> 3 working shifts a day means with a crew of 25 only 8 people are actually on
> duty at a time. 8 are asleep and 8 are loungin' around. Of those 8 that are on
> duty:
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> 3 are needed on the bridge at any given time.
> 2 are needed in engineering
> 1 in the shuttlebay / repair shop
> 1 in astrometrics
> 1 in the med bay
> 1 in the science lab...which totals 9.
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> But I also figured that this ship was TIGHT so it was a bit of a compromise.
> I've always had a little difficulty believing in spaceships that had such a
> small crew and were so big as realistically only a 1/3 of the population can be
> on duty
AhHA, but you assume the quality-of-life standards apply in a spaceship, and
that 24-hour cycles are the order of the day. There are no sunrises in the
void. Go with 2 12-hour shifts, have the engineering/shuttlebay crews share two
people, and put the astrometrics guy on the bridge. Now your down to 7 guys on
each of two shifts, for 14. Keep 4 more around in case someone is sick or a
floater is needed in a particular area, and to rotate "vacation". Now you have
an 18 person crew, and "Real World Syndrome" should be easier to avoid.
Adrian probably has more knowledge on this than me - his Tribunal has a crew of
over 40, but I think some of that is nepotism & internships, like the guy who
fixes the exercise equipment on Deck 4 and the Captain's nephew who brings
coffee from the galley.
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| (...) Heck, more than that, you are assuming minifigs *sleep*. I didn't exit my dark ages long ago, but I can tell you over the course of several years, I've yet to catch even *one* of my minifigs sleeping. Not so much as closing a painted eye. If (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: O.S.S. Pastier
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| (...) Hahaha! Ironically enough, I was going to post almost the exact same stuff you said earlier today, but got distracted and wandered off to like, work and stuff. Anyway, the Tribunal does indeed have a crew of 49, but it's a crapton bigger than (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.space)
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| In lugnet.space, Nick Kappatos wrote:> (...) Nick, thanks for the comments; I appreciate them! Yeah, the photography hurts, no doubting that. I was so focused on getting things actually in focus that I didn't realize how bad the lighting was. I am (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.space)
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