The Glory Star Project

Chap 10 Build

To be able to build the 10th chapter I need to build the Nautilus ship details, the details of the captains, the details of the cryotanks, how many people Glory is supervising, and far more importantly the MENTOR old guy that I've been talking about

Mentor

Since I clearly think MENTOR is my 'important' build, I'm going to grab the notes I made on him, then I'm going to use my character building tool to attempt to flesh him out

Xav was so busy working he had to assign Glory a MENTOR to start explaining all the systems and equipment on board that she needs to familiarize herself with. First I was thinking of a woman, but changed my mind.

*I'm thinking MENTOR should be an older man, a techo who has worked with Xav since his father was still in charge. He claims he's 180 years old but doesn't look a day over 60. Xav comes in to see that they are going over how to use the holo computer to check the systems on all four Nautilus ships so they'd know where any problems were before they went out to inspect them.

*If we're introducing the presence of holograms of people into this part of the story, there are a few things to know. First, this is Gamlin tech that Glory would have never seen before taking this job, though she'd just been working with the hologram computer as a ships-wide diagnostic tool, so she won't be completely unfamiliar with the hologram concept even though Regulus didn't have it.

I'm putting the hologram notes with MENTOR right here because he's supposed to introduce her to holograms so it seems appropriate. I'm headed over to see what the tool might tell me about him now...

Bartholomew Nerys, human, obvious africaner facial structure but not dark--blended?, short, muscular, uniformed, I'm giving him white hair but it used to be brown, his eyes are green and skin golden. A few wrinkles have set in.
Nice, bold, careful, realistic, solitary. Probably nicknamed Bart but often called Nerys.

Hologram Computer

Obviously, if the whole point of Bart is to teach Glory about the computer that interactively controls all four ships while they are joined and uses hologram technology, this is where we need to explain a few things. Back on Regulus the computer in the jobs lab did show a hologram of Richards, the clear distinction is going to be that this computer doesn't show still images of things, you can actually zero in on the object and project it as though in a solid state right in front of the person looking at it. The difference is that the image of Richards was a fancy photograph, while this thing is more like a movie camera. She'll find it fascinating.

Anyway, not that he'll explain it, but it's possible because the entire walls and floors of the ships are covered in nanites with mini cameras that the computer directs to turn to a specific object, then project what they see to the terminal or terminals being used for viewing.

Hologram Captains

This is not what is happening with the holograms of the captains. They are each wearing belts...similar to medical belts, but these one scan the exterior in their default modes, yet could become medical scanners if desired. They generate the replica of the person who is wearing them and a tiny floating orb is then sent out physically to the place they wish to be seen and it projects a solid-looking image of the person, but since it's made of light they can't interact physically.

Even though the ships are joined physically the captains send holograms as they eat because it's easier to each eat in their own mess halls and just make it seem like they're in a huge space together than to actually create ships with huge eating spaces that would only get used for such occasions...it would be a waste of the space.

Who is Glory Supervising?

We need a clear head count of all the people on all four ships. More specifically, we need to know that Glory is in charge of the tech crew, and what exactly that means.

One Nautilus ship generally has a skeleton crew of twenty people. It could be flown with just those. This means one captain, 2-4 pilots or navigators who are somewhat interchangeable, a second and third in command type structure should be in place for "just in case" purposes. Food prep probably has about four people as well working in shifts, maybe even a few more. Engineer/maintenance personnel...there should be somebody in charge (Bart who is teaching Glory), somebody else who is equally knowledgeable...Glory is working toward this position but not fully qualified yet so there's going to be another...and I think it's a waste to not make use of Reagan so that's where he'll go, while it's established already that Kurana is a pilot. Then, you also need the skilled labor guys...the ones who actually go into the room and mess with a leak, a faulty computer ready to blow up, and unskilled workers there to lift heavy stuff and such. This last might easily fall to mechanoids rather than crew members. So with about seven skilled workers, that would make twenty.

However, we know that because they'd come to the Regulus Quadrant and split off to do odd jobs on various planets until regathering here, it's not going to be a skeleton crew on any of the ships right now. If each planet required a crew of 5 and each of the 5 shuttles had been sent to a world, 25 people would need to return to each Nautilus...it's probable that ten of those people were extra skilled labor, and they'd fall under command of Engineering/Maintenance. Each ship has its own head of maintenance, but those three will be under the command of the mother ship, Nautilus One. If that's so, the commanded persons include three heads, four adjuncts (the secondary guys) and 40 skilled workers. Although she is not yet fully in charge of them, that is the expected crew that will fall under her leadership.

How Many Cryotanks

If they're wanting all the humans tanked for the trip through the wormhole, we need to know how many that would be. So, diving back into that list again, let's figure that out. 4 captains, 4 seconds in command, 4 thirds in command, 12 pilot/navs, roughly 12 kitchen workers, 4 main engineers, 4 adjunct engineers (including Glory), 40 skilled workers. That roughs out to 84 tanks. But there's a problem with that calculation because in the story I suggested the ship was big and impressive. The trouble becomes, does he also transport passengers when he comes through there sometimes, and if he does are there passengers currently on board any of the vessels, meaning more tanks? How many passengers might be there in total? If we were to go with 30 per ship...120 passengers, that would make more sense and allow for why the ship is such a large size. It would also mean we could say 200 cryotanks need to be readied for the flight.

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