dissecting the Aurora
raven2010
USA Join Date: 2015-05-28 Member: 204980Members
USA Join Date: 2015-05-28 Member: 204980Members
I've been watching the aurora for a while and simply just taking it apart with what I could see in some things I find very interesting about the ship itself.
you can clearly see the energy reactors on the side of the ship with the big bubble thing. and Whitney radiation scrubbers that we get to go into and repair right next to it it makes sense.
the bridges on top and that j-shape if you could I see the observation deck for piloting the craft you have a large viewing window going across the entire section as well as the advantage point from up there would allow you to talk with docking stations much better than being on the front or side of the ship you can clearly see the communication array as well.
the rear of the ship you can clearly see the conventional drives and above that seems to be a blue patch it looks like that could possibly open up to be a shuttle area. after I'm sure the Aurora has smaller space where the vessels on it.
we can see maintenance hatches and other small docking portals on her sides. I can only assume this is where the life pods are ejected out of.
if the developers read this when the Aurora's on planet and she's already exploded and it looks like theBridges been blown backwards from the force of the explosion it seems to be a metal support beam dripping down from inside of that peace. and from the front of the ship the part that's been blown off and it is actually covered in fire right now if the fire eventually burns out like fire typically does you might be able to have a walking path to get to the top of the ship and then you can walk up to the very top of the ship get up to that Broken Steel Beam sticking out of the Bridge section and repair the long-range Communications relay. Maybe end game? since the Aurora is still being worked on his mostly Hollow.
you can clearly see the energy reactors on the side of the ship with the big bubble thing. and Whitney radiation scrubbers that we get to go into and repair right next to it it makes sense.
the bridges on top and that j-shape if you could I see the observation deck for piloting the craft you have a large viewing window going across the entire section as well as the advantage point from up there would allow you to talk with docking stations much better than being on the front or side of the ship you can clearly see the communication array as well.
the rear of the ship you can clearly see the conventional drives and above that seems to be a blue patch it looks like that could possibly open up to be a shuttle area. after I'm sure the Aurora has smaller space where the vessels on it.
we can see maintenance hatches and other small docking portals on her sides. I can only assume this is where the life pods are ejected out of.
if the developers read this when the Aurora's on planet and she's already exploded and it looks like theBridges been blown backwards from the force of the explosion it seems to be a metal support beam dripping down from inside of that peace. and from the front of the ship the part that's been blown off and it is actually covered in fire right now if the fire eventually burns out like fire typically does you might be able to have a walking path to get to the top of the ship and then you can walk up to the very top of the ship get up to that Broken Steel Beam sticking out of the Bridge section and repair the long-range Communications relay. Maybe end game? since the Aurora is still being worked on his mostly Hollow.
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Love your dissecting the Aurora.
this is the one of the biggest reasons I believe she has onboard space-worthy vessels on her. if she could get planet-side there be no way for her to get back up. the thrust required to lift such a heavy vessel to leave the force of planetary gravity would be high.
underneath her belly looks like facilities that are possibly designed for resource extraction and resource processing. I think it's safe to say for the most part those are completely destroyed from the reentry crash.
crew quarters are definitely in the center of the ship mid-section. you could see the viewing ports.
radar equipment is in front of the bridge short-range Communications as well.
then the bridge herself with 80 degree viewing deck. long-range ship-to-ship Communications relay on the bridge. still trying to figure out what that Gap underneath the back side of the bridge is.
The 4 conventional drives are her main out put. from her design and amount of drives on her rear she's capable of pretty good top speeds which you would need for Interstellar travel.
looks like the four main drives create a lot of heat, the silver fins running along the left and right side between the two top and bottom conventional main Drives are for cooling.
Have your coolant lines between those fins, the cold of space will cool the coolant and then can be recycled into the engine cores. a lot like a modern-day radiator for a automobile. I'm guessing she has a max full thrust run time that's pretty impressive.
two brightly-lit portals next to the engines probably service portals for when she's docked. power recharge as well as sewage discharge and water intakes, O2 recycle.
As for the ships actual design, it strikes me that it has very little in the way of armor. For a ship of it's size, the hull panels are very thin. The extensive structural supports inside it suggest that it gets more of it's hull integrity from internal supports than from the hull material itself. This would mean that the hull, while hard to crush or buckle, could be perforated fairly easily. While not a combat ship, this still strikes me as a design flaw, even assuming that they have some form of energy shields.
If you look at their trello page for developement and dig around for the ladder cards, they are currently working on the animations for the ones on the Aurora. Reason being they are working on another interior. We'll have new areas of the ship to explore at some point.
https://sketchfab.com/models/565f8bfb367d497c835d92a96c78bdc9