This evening I worked on the Sagitta turret housing (since it will be seen from below and I didn't want to have shield capacity modules hanging their big hairies out everywhere).
I'm also beginning to mount the spotlights on Spine Module #2.
As you can see these spotlights are paired and mounted on turret points so they can be manually rotated to the desired angle... it's a subtle effect but one that I wanted rather than having the lights all facing directly downward... I thought it was important to have them all face towards the mid-point of the shipyard area.
The Sagitta Class turret housing. This isn't necessary when the Sagitta is hull-mounted and the innards aren't visible, of course. However on Port Vandermier the underside of these top Spine Modules are visible, and therefore a housing is necessary to make it all perdie. There's two huge geared motors either side which control the rotation of the turret's base (the second motor also offers redundancy if the first fails).
The turret housing nestled in between the Main Quad Shield Tanks. The motors aren't readily apparent from this angle as they sit up behind the tanks, however engineers can still easily access them from within the Module itself. When I do a video soon I'll have a closer look for you, there's some pretty animated details to it I'd like to show.
The spotlights are being mounted currently... the ones that are already mounted are active. They'll be toggled by wifi modules which I'll have to hook up on each pair - that makes a total of 60 manual wifi-connections for just these lights... sigh.
Decals for the shield tanks have been applied. Once the Fermium isotope core is depleted in these (approximately every 3 years) they are removed and replaced.
The additional areas within the Spine Modules will contain a small pressurised area (accessed both from a small airlock as well as internal intra-station teleporters), which will house the engineering quarters and facilities, and adjoin two astrotech drones which are used to manufacture and repair vessels when the shipyard is fully operational. These drones will be tucked up out of the way within the volume of the module, but readily launched and accessed (no hangars, just docked). From this area engineers will also be able to access the hatch into the Sagitta turrets' Fissionable Materials projectile ammunition tanks docked on the upper portion of the wings of each module, so that they can be jettisoned in an emergency (they're a docked entity also). You can see these access points as yellow black hazard stripes on either side of the module, which corresponds to the hatch at the base of the tank.
There will also be a few other systems and a whole butt-tonne of cabling between all the high-power systems.
I'm also beginning to mount the spotlights on Spine Module #2.
As you can see these spotlights are paired and mounted on turret points so they can be manually rotated to the desired angle... it's a subtle effect but one that I wanted rather than having the lights all facing directly downward... I thought it was important to have them all face towards the mid-point of the shipyard area.

The Sagitta Class turret housing. This isn't necessary when the Sagitta is hull-mounted and the innards aren't visible, of course. However on Port Vandermier the underside of these top Spine Modules are visible, and therefore a housing is necessary to make it all perdie. There's two huge geared motors either side which control the rotation of the turret's base (the second motor also offers redundancy if the first fails).

The turret housing nestled in between the Main Quad Shield Tanks. The motors aren't readily apparent from this angle as they sit up behind the tanks, however engineers can still easily access them from within the Module itself. When I do a video soon I'll have a closer look for you, there's some pretty animated details to it I'd like to show.

The spotlights are being mounted currently... the ones that are already mounted are active. They'll be toggled by wifi modules which I'll have to hook up on each pair - that makes a total of 60 manual wifi-connections for just these lights... sigh.

Decals for the shield tanks have been applied. Once the Fermium isotope core is depleted in these (approximately every 3 years) they are removed and replaced.
The additional areas within the Spine Modules will contain a small pressurised area (accessed both from a small airlock as well as internal intra-station teleporters), which will house the engineering quarters and facilities, and adjoin two astrotech drones which are used to manufacture and repair vessels when the shipyard is fully operational. These drones will be tucked up out of the way within the volume of the module, but readily launched and accessed (no hangars, just docked). From this area engineers will also be able to access the hatch into the Sagitta turrets' Fissionable Materials projectile ammunition tanks docked on the upper portion of the wings of each module, so that they can be jettisoned in an emergency (they're a docked entity also). You can see these access points as yellow black hazard stripes on either side of the module, which corresponds to the hatch at the base of the tank.
There will also be a few other systems and a whole butt-tonne of cabling between all the high-power systems.
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