Deck Ranges
I calculated the deck ranges, to give us a better idea of where things are. My method was simplistic: I took a graphic of the starbase, and then sized it to 935 pixels high -- the same # of decks on the base. Thus, I had a representation of the base where each deck is 1 pixel. (BTW, I removed the towers and the "platform" underneath them when I counted the decks, as well as the antennas on the subspace array. I assume that the towers and their platform would be +1 type decks.) I then placed guides at the bottom of each "section" of the base and found the pixel on the Y axis that this corresponded to. That pixel then became a deck number. --Wolf /talk page 18:47, 26 June 2006 (CDT)
- There is a section below the engineering area, but above the subspace array, that is not sized on either of the representations [1] [2] of the base sections. So, I assumed that this section was a "lower habitat area," thus the second set of ranges for the habitat area. --Wolf /talk page 18:50, 26 June 2006 (CDT)
![[2]](http://www.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php/Image:Sb118_1.gif){kind=link}
- I happen to have a copy of Jackill's Starfleet Reference Manual (vol. II), which has the spacedock-style starbase in it. It's not canon, but I thought you might be interested in what it says, if only for another point of view. I can provide a scan if desired. But, in text, the sections are:
- A1 - Administration (the towers)
- D1 - Drydock (which include the Drydock and Admin sections in sections.html)
- H2 - Habitat (matches up exactly to the upper habitat section)
- H1 - Lower habitat (the Commercial section, which is also listed as being a completely open dome with landscape inside)
- I1 - Interface section (immediately below the lower dome.. included in sections.html's Commercial)
- R2 - Research (sections.html's Engineering)
- I2 - Interface section (The little bit at the very bottom of Engineering)
- R1 - Research (What you are referring to as the lower habitat section)
- C1 - Communications (Subspace Array)
- C2/C3/C4 - Communications towers (three different variants of towers)
- Personally, I like the idea of there being a research section, if only because I wonder what on earth the engineers would do with a sizable percentage of the station dedicated to their craft. Although, research facilities could easily be inside the engineering section. Just my thoughts.. --RogueGypsy47 21:13, 26 June 2006 (CDT)
- I happen to have a copy of Jackill's Starfleet Reference Manual (vol. II), which has the spacedock-style starbase in it. It's not canon, but I thought you might be interested in what it says, if only for another point of view. I can provide a scan if desired. But, in text, the sections are:
- Well, right now I'm in the midst of a personal crisis as I have come to the realization that my deck #s are completely wrong :) I calculated the ranges assume that length of the base = 935 decks. Then it occured to me that I should have been going by the stated LENGTH and not number of decks. Duh. So I'm trying to figure out a better computation right now, but it's clear to me that the 935 deck # does not include the hab dome, and probably not the docking bay, either.
- I do like the breakdown you have. I'm not sure what is meant by "Interface section," but we could simply call "lower habitat" the research area, instead.
- Also, the engineering decks don't just account for "craft," but instead all manner of maintenance-type stuff. Though, as I think about it, it occurs to me that a lot of stuff that I assumed went in the engineering area (i.e.- water recyclers, air scrubbers, etc.) would probably be "local" to where they are needed. It would be a lot of wasted energy to pipe water from deck 5 to deck 700 just to clean it. So we may want to keep the "lower habitat" the same, then break up the engineering section to include maintenance stuff (fusion reactors, a couple of the computer cores, and other big stuff) and research areas? --Wolf /talk page 22:49, 26 June 2006 (CDT)