| Revanantwraith |
My research indicates a building works with floor, room, services with the total being able to be roughly estimated as 200mm floor, X room, 1m ceiling/services giving you say 4.2m for a 10' high room. Now that gives a nice easy comparison to starship decks. You have your deck and in the ceiling/walls you have access tubes to get to areas.
What I'm debating over is if the bottom of the ship should have services as well. That is should you have . . .
Deck 1: 4.2
Deck 2: 4.2Ship Height = 8.4m
or should you include some more services/access areas in the bottom of the ship below the lowest deck e.g.
Deck 1: 4.2
Deck 2: 4.2
Lower area: 1m (or X)Ship Height = 9.4 or 8.4 + X?
What do people think would the lower hull of a ship be the floor of the lowest deck or would there be access areas/services between the lower hull and the bottom deck?
So depending on how your ship is built we actually may use the access hatches raceways etc. around a habitat module as a kind of spaced (as in distance) armor. If something pierced outer shell, would you rather loose your non-critical system or have a chance of explosive decompression. Look at hardspace: ship breaker on steam for some ship design ideas...