Spectrum: Inside the shark tour

[Lonely_Ghost]

Spectrum: inside the shark.

The Nonsense Factory.

- So…it’s ya first time being on gunboat? Alright then. Leme show you few things, and if you not against, we gona start from now, shall we?-
- Firs of all, remember, that this is combat ship, and it should be secured well. But you are our fellow, and, we can make an excemption for ya. But check it out, if you gona be found here alone…Im not gona envy to ya. So stay close to me here. Let’s go to one of gunboats, moored to station. The entrance into the ship you will find on the other way of this corridor.-

Entrance into gunboat from station

- So here we are. Let me just do few things, and we can enter. By the way, hold this scheme of gunboat. This will help you understand a bit, where were are located. Mkay? Mkay!-

basic gunboat layout

- Well, this gunboat is called Spectrum. Relatively new, I mean, date of assemble, but it already kicked some asses, and, however, took few hits. Even Liberty Navy can have few lucky shots eh? So now, this ship now moored, and already had some repair jobs done, just a few things should be made, nothing in particular.-

- Right we here! Welcome to Spectrum! We are in medium deck, or living space. Here, crew can have some rest, can assemble for a ship council, to take important decision, and so on. Oh, like someone had a dinner here, and forgot it here. Wana finish it?-

Medium deck, resting area

- Actually, it’s nice idea, where we can go now. Let’s go and see cargo deck. It’s located in front of a ship, because, of safety reasons. If cargo deck take punish, nobody will be harmed eh? There is no crew, no critical systems located and so on. Emergency supplies can be found elsewhere, so, crew will have something to chew, drink, and breath. And, having frontal panel as door is very useful, when something need to be loaded or unloaded from a ship.-

Cargo bay, frontal deck

- Now, let’s see very special deck, where all necessary materials and components being stored. It’s called lower deck, or stomach.-
- It’s pretty cold here, because, some components should be kept cool before mixture, and direct usage in engines. Also note, that here is hanged radiation level. Reason is same and simple, like two fingers… Many components are radioactive, so, if you don’t want third hand into your tummy, let’s get out of here.
That deck is very critical, because, ship will die without it. Very tight armor plate is located under that deck, into ship’s belly, to insure maximal safety. Ya know, ship can make home, without reactor chamber, on emergency cells, without engineering, and, pretty crappy of course, with great hole, on bridge place, but not without lower deck. If it could return home without stomach, I would eat my own eye.-

Lower deck, access restricted

- Mkay, we checked this, this deck, and this one, let’s go and check few notable place here. Follow me now, and don’t break behind!-
- Right, we are in correct place, this is the entrance into reactor chamber. You should know what is reactor, and why it’s need? Or get the hell out! –

Reactor room entrance

- Hey, it’s Luke, red snout, but now he has this helmet, so it’s green! This dude can drink so much, like he has a black hole in his stomach. I tried to drink a half of his doze, and I woke up on medical deck after two days. As everybody, who tried same thing. Oh, he also very good with reactors, just for information. Hey there Luke!-
- Hey there! Who you have with ya there? Oh, nice to meet ya, I’m Luke.-
- Luke, can you tell us about your job, if you are not that sober-
- Oh, I duna, but mkay. Well, how you can see, we are in reactor chamber, and…there should be reactor, and… where it is? Ah, there you are! Stay still bro, Ima gona talk about you, okay? Fine, he not gona run anywhere for now. So, and I have to watch for this guy, while we are in space. Wait a minute? We are in space every time! Oh, crap…. Anyway, there are lots of displays, they talking to me, about reactor’s status, and, my job is to make sure, reactor feeling great.
Oh wait! What, need something bro? Hot a bit? Mkay, no problem dude, leme just increase cooling system performance for 15.4%, and activate camera’s blowdown. This hot air can make everyone mad, so don’t worry!-
- Okay Luke, have a nice chatting with your displays and reactor. We not gona disturb you. Good luck!-

Luke, with green light helmet in reactor chamger

- Yeah, sometimes, I have great doubt, how adequate Luke is, but…. He is one of the best in this field. Reactor always running just perfect, as all reactors, where Luke was working.-
- Well, we have seen many things today, but we still have few places to go. Remember, I told ya, that ship, can, theoretically make it back to base, without Command Bridge? Where and who the hell gona control it, you gona ask me? And there is the answer.-

- This small room is an alternative to Command Bridge. Basic ship functions can be accessed from here. It’s something like last chance to return home, however, in battle, damaged bridge and freaked controls makes ship doomed. However, it’s very useful, when you already won a battle, but took too many hits. And right this room helps ship not to achieve ghost status, as, with critical bridge damage, ship would be floating in space, dead, but not beaten.-

Emergency control

- And, last, but not leas place where we go, it’s command bridge and engineering deck. They both located into upper section of ship. In engineering, it’s nothing to watch, just few control panels, and things like this, I will just activate some ship’s function from there, so, we would have something interesting to see on bridge.

Engineering

Bridge

- So, we are in shark’s head. I know, it’s not looking like most ship’s bridges. However, we even have other way of thinking. We control ship in way, like we would be the ship. We would see, and feel, what ship would do. That why, our ships are so deadly, because, we are deadly. Put up those glasses, and you will see, what ship see.-

Pilot's vision control glasses

- It’s not so hard, to understand. White symbols and text showing piloting information, and yellow for engineering note, about ship’s status. They doesn’t show up all in one time, because, your eye would be bleeding from that.-


- Now, you found something about, what inside space shark. Any questions you have?-