"The lad is making his way here? Hmm... okay. Let's use this time to study this lady from the inside, shall we?"
The speaker pops as the connection ends. Scotty puts his personal device on the table and sees the screens and menus open across the observation deck dashboard. After a few minutes trying to figure out how to access the power diagrams, he takes note of the power distribution and how it works within this class of Liner. With the power core being this small, the circuitry and lines within the liner must be configured for extreme efficiency. Only needing to access power when a primary system absolutely needs it. Scotty takes note that secondary systems do get some power - but not a lot, considering most of the allocated power is probably used to entertain the guests and operate the engines. Scotty starts up an application on his device, allowing his words to be magically transformed into a text report. He begins...
The NX-01 has a huge nuclear powercore. There is enough space here to house it, but we'll be needing polarized plating above and below it to keep it suspended in the air. This way, the plating can absorb the power without being melted by actually touching the unit. This also means that a big enough shake to the ship could in theory yank it out of it's magnetic cage. We should be able to make sure that never happens, adding additional plating and the like. As for the circuitry... we can't afford to have our core be slowed down by these efficient step-down transformers. Have to install at least four main conduits. Maybe six. Three primaries, one for our rift-jump device, another for our hyperspatial survey hardware, and a third for... something, there's enough space here to mount a third piece. The other three are backups, just in case. To put it short, we only have a handful of primary systems on board the NX-01, so having direct power to everything is a must.
As for the cargo storage areas... Yes, there is way more than enough there to carry the fuel we need. However, getting it from the eight cargo bays to the injector is another thing. I propose to restructure one of the hallways on the liner to act as a tunnel. These tunnels will start from each Cargo bay, all connect into one big tunnel and then this will be built along one of the corridors and finally lead into the fuel injector for the survey hardware. We won't be having more than a couple hundred people on this ship, so shaving down some walking space isn't going to hurt us too badly. Speaking of space we won't really need. I could use Seabourne's tour to get info on internal layouts. If they could be easily changed for research, or if the Enterprise and Oasis-Class liners have a fixed internal layout. We may need a shipyard to remove and reorganise everything. This will come in handy for configuring the power systems too. As of now, I'll be waiting for Seabourne to arrive. More will come later.
Scotty saves his work and puts his device away. After a while spinning in his chair, whistling a good tune or two, he hears the bulkhead open outside the room's door. A few moments later, the observation deck door slides open to reveal...
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Godspeed, Pilots.
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