What I think passenger cabins look like

RellTyr

RellTyr
Recently I've gone into the Beluga Liner transport business, and the cabin values and pictograms and it got me thinkin'.

Does anyone know what's actually in these luxury cabins in lore to warrant them costing 9x as much as First class? It was a bit of a shock to me first time I saw it, and I want to get to the bottom of it.

Here's my vision for what they might be like.

1 CR = $50 = £36.64

Top to bottom (all 40t versions):

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Economy (32): CR 61,410 = £225,006 (£7,031 per cell)


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Business (16): CR 184,232 = £6,750,260 (£ 421,891 per room)
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First (8): CR 552,698 = £20,250,854 (£2,531,356 per large room)
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Luxury (8): CR 4,849,930 = £ 177,701,435 (mansion, £22,212,679 per person)


Luxury would probably have terminals, Pools, Gym, Cinema, basically a mansion in space... really makes you think what sort of space-age stuff can be in a Beluga Liner 1,000 years into the future. What sort of stuff would you have in your luxury cabin?
 
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Stealthie

Stealthie
Seems like the best way to visualise cabins is to consider that they fit into slots that can also be use for cargo.

So, for example, a 2E cargo rack can hold 4t of stuff while a 2E cabin can accomodate 2 people.
Based on the weight/volume of water (which I realise is kind of arbitrary but it's as good as anything) that means a 2E cargo rack is roughly 4m³.

If we assume bulkheads are 2m high (so an average human can walk upright) that'd mean a 2E cabin would need to be 2m high, 2m long (so a human could lie down) and 1m wide, also giving us a volume of around 4m³.
That's probably about right, meaning that the cabin could have a couple of narrow bunks and just about enough room to move around.
This does seem to hold true for all cabins although, when you get to the larger Economy cabins, it's likely passengers would be crammed in like sardines.

Course, the real question is why our passengers need cabins at all, given that most flights are less than half an hour.

It might've been nice if FDev had created "passenger seating" modules as well as cabins and then we could have had different types of missions which require different facilities.
You could, for example, get 600 passengers into a Cutter or Annie - in seats - for a 15 minute trip between systems.
Conversely, you might need a cabin for somebody who wants taking to Colonia or for a crime-boss who wants a luxury tour of the Empire.
 

RellTyr

RellTyr
BDelacroix said:
Exactly what came to mind when I read "pool" in zero G.
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I think you underestimate the technology of 1,000 years in the future, it's not that hard to imagine a pool operating in a sort of force-field that will stop the water escaping even...
 

Starshot_Jigawatts

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RellTyr said:
I think you underestimate the technology of 1,000 years in the future, it's not that hard to imagine a pool operating in a sort of force-field that will stop the water escaping even...
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I have a hard time imagining it. Seeing as how the human body has about the same density as water itself more or less, how could we design a shield that could keep water in a container WITHOUT also drowning a person to death?
 

wAsh67

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Starshot_Jigawatts said:
I have a hard time imagining it. Seeing as how the human body has about the same density as water itself more or less, how could we design a shield that could keep water in a container WITHOUT also drowning a person to death?
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The person won't drown. He'd just bounce off when he tried to dive in....
 

wAsh67

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No need for apologies, I was just making a comedy sketch in my mind.
I saw it as the pool needing a force field at all times to stop the water flooding the cinema. Hence you'd never be able to get in. Hence the visual gag (well, visual in my mind anyway. I have a strange mind. As you may have noticed)
 

Danieros

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Just a reminder that cargo holds can also fit people though I guess it would be worse than economical class (and perhaps the unreleased "prisoner" cabin type) - hostages, slaves and imperial slaves all go in the cargo hold.
 
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Nordmarken

Nordmarken
BDelacroix said:
Exactly what came to mind when I read "pool" in zero G.
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A solution would be to have some enclosed capsule which you entered through an airlock. Obviously you would need some oxygen tanks. But thinking we are some thousand years in the future I wouldnt be surprised if we could have some high efficient scuba tank like this. Should be quite the experience.

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Nordmarken

Nordmarken
RellTyr said:
1. Attach nanobot to pool-water molecule
2. Program nanobots to retain a flat shape, but allow denser materials to pass through it
3. ????
4. Profit!
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Terrorist hack nanobots to go after all water molecules. Resulting in several mummies floating around.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Starshot_Jigawatts said:
I have a hard time imagining it. Seeing as how the human body has about the same density as water itself more or less, how could we design a shield that could keep water in a container WITHOUT also drowning a person to death?
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Hmmm...
Might get a little bloated with all of that exposure to water, but I'll mention the idea to the king... It'll make a noticable difference to profits compared against the normal 'dry cured' meat...

Great idea! :ROFLMAO:
 
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