[Carl]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
Given the apparent lack of creature comforts on an Orion

what leads you to believe this?

[Nuke]

remember that a quarter the crew on any gtva vessel, are hookers. i fail to see why that many people are required to run a vessel. next generation naval vessels are so well automated that crew sizes are dropping from thousands to hundreds (and in some cases tens). so i guess they are mostly crack whores.

[FireCrack]

The way i see it most of the crew of destroyer size vessels is devoted to command and control

[Havock]

if you get druk in the gtva, they'll keelhaul you.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by Carl


what leads you to believe this?

Interior shots of an Orion, and other Terran ships, look like, well, a modern naval vessel, only not as clean. Lots of exposed pipes and such, but also kinda dingy, like it all needs a good scrubbing and a coat of paint.

[FireCrack]

but they have massive space wasting bars

[NGTM-1R]

I suspect that was once an auxilary hanger or weapons-storage area.

[Liberator]

Originally posted by aldo_14
What size is it, though?  I'm thinking of the cubic dimensions.....

Well, I couldn't find cubic dimensions, but after some digging I found this.  It list the length of an Ohio class missile sub as 560 feet (170.69 meters) and the beam(width) as 42 feet (10.06 meters).  Of course, this is +/- the twice the distance between the main hull and the pressure hull, but it's at most a foot.  She's manned by a crew of 15 officers and 144 crewmen.  

One SSBN combat employment cycle includes a 70-day patrol and 25-day period of transfer of the submarine to the other crew, between-deployment maintenance, and reloading of munitions.

So basically, the Ohio has 2 full crews one at sea and one in port, training and attending other duties.  A cruise last a little over 2 months and they have a month between cruises when they perform maintenance and reload spent munitions and supplies.  We could probably extend this to a 3 month cruise and a month in dock following each cruise for a Fenris/Leviathan since they are sligthly larger and probably have a smaller crew.

[Kie99]

1,073,144,856 Metres Cubed, the Cubic dimensions of an Orion. (at least that's what you get if you multiply Height, Width and Depth)

P.S. Where is that screenie from?

[Marauder]

Wiggy...Wiggy...Wiggy...

[Kie99]

WTF?

[Carl]

Originally posted by kietotheworld
1,073,144,856 Metres Cubed, the Cubic dimensions of an Orion. (at least that's what you get if you multiply Height, Width and Depth)

because the Orion is a huge featureless 6 sided brick.

i remember there being a plug-in for truespace that will tell you the volume of an object. i can't be arsed to find it, but if you import the model into truespace and scale it to the appropriate dimensions, it should come out as being right, unless there is some intersecting geometery.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by kietotheworld
WTF?

Look at the cylinder on the left.

[Liberator]

[FireCrack]

[Carl]

yeah, so then, what does it mean?

[FireCrack]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wiggy

[Carl]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wiggy+wiggy&r=s&pos=2