I have a few questions about how ships are docked.
1) If a Space Dock can reasonably dock a Space Ship class vessel internally, does it use open slips with docking clamps and a boarding tube all the time? Or can the big ones actually have sealed slips for some (and if so, what is the opinion of the collective as to the average size)?
2) Rob, can Stelliva dock a Space Ship? And if so, how big a one given that the SS rating allows for ships that are bigger than the shuttle tanks you use for the main ring? (See
link here)
3) What sort of capacity would your typical Space Port or Space Dock have?
Stellvia can dock almost anything, if they're willing to use boarding tubes - come alongside and dock to us. (We might have trouble with The Island or Grover's Corners... )
Internal landing space is extremely limited. Officially, there are five landing slips - the largest, in the shuttle tanks, is dedicated for the Epsilon Blade (which is roughly the size of the Delta Flyer from Star Trek: Voyager), the other four, in the new construction, are for car-sized Space Craft such as the Saturn 0, the Jet Car or the Candy Apple Red. (Unofficially and secretly, there's another landing slip purpose-built for the Little Deuce Coupe - on station diagrams, the space is marked as maintenance supplies for the 'Blade.)
However... If you're looking for someplace to set down for repairs, then Stellvia is not the place to come. Unless it's a real emergency, that is - we don't turn away anyone who's really in trouble unless the station's under quarantine.
(This is all as of Operation Great Justice. Noah plans to help keep the economy alive after the war by substantially upgrading the station, but that's not really relevant for current discussions...)
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Thanks Rob. That'll make it easier to transfer the prisoners for OGJ interrogation, and to show the staff that YES, there IS two tonnes of Thionite aboard.
For docking in case of emergencies, the top floor of Gnarlycurl is basically a wave-car workshop, and the ship's main business is repairs and modification. By the current Boskone War time, the quarters section has also been fitted out for use as hotel/clinic duty, being aboard possibly the most indestructible object known to man is a good environment for a hospital ship. If a larger vessel is losing atmosphere, there are two 'waved canvas "balloons" still in storage from growing the massive amount of liquid handwavium to fill the main engine wavechamber, each of which could have a reclosable seam and airlock added in ten to fifteen minutes, and which are roughly 100ft diameter by 200 ft long at full expansion, into which a ship could be put. In fact, by present time, I'm going to go ahead and say that's been done, considering the stated duty for OGJ, and Wave Convoy or a heavier-duty truck/van mod can get one and an air tank to fill it anywhere at carmod speeds.
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