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Adaranis Commerce Station Schematic View
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 March 16, 2011 - 6:48pm | I like this station but would not the attached modules unballance it if it was spinning on its axis I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 16, 2011 - 8:22pm | Its not a nice tidy military station. It's a commercial trade center, parts don't always work in harmony. The habitat modules that stick out on the ring have been financially fortunate that it tenant owner could afford the commercial space and build the unit. There are four other open spaces just awaiting new tenants to open shop. Future images may contain these new modules. To answer your question just take a look at the construction phases of the real life international space station. It didnt come together all symetical. It was pieced together one component at a time. |
 March 17, 2011 - 10:09pm | How big is this? I have lost track of size. @Jedion I see your point. The ISS is not spinning for artificial gravity where this is, thus you would expect this to look symmetrical. However, the symmetry is by mass not volume. If AZ puts heavy mass items 180 degrees opposite to the penthouses then the center of mass stays in the center of the hub where stability needs it. The balancing mass could be water (pools, garden ponds, fish farm), high density low rent housing, any thing that concentrates enough mass to offset the rich man's mass foot print. Yes I want to play on the carbon foot print thing. Rich guys on this station might get derogatory names from the gravitation control techs like lard buts, led heads, or 50 rich snobs (takes 50 other people to offset their mass). In the past I had often pondered on large spinning stations and how they budget the distribution of the mass. Experience would allow simple placement of mass to deal with the day to day movement of large numbers of people. I'd expect that it would be common to live near where you work to keep things simple. But I can see any major renovations involving mass reviews and sometimes distributing of plans that would not be necessary planet side. Most storage would be in the hub area where the low to no G allows for easy handling in the warehouse. The warehouse would likely have robots that automatically move storage containers to shift mass. I once visited a warehouse in Singapore that was all robotic. One operator would request the pallet, bin, whatever, and the robots would move and pick the part(s) and take them to the loading dock. The shelving of the warehouse was on tracks that moved the shelves together or apart to concentrate the space. I've seen libraries like this. The station warehouse would likely be like this. No one enters but the robots and the storage system moves to accommodate the robots access to storage containers. I just thought this one up. All water storage and treatment could be a combination of the central hub and the arms attached to the ring. Then pumps could easily move water from one arm to another distributing the mass to keep a constant balance of the mass. The tanks in the arms would likely have rubber cells/bladders like airplane gas tanks to make this efficient. -iggy |
March 17, 2011 - 10:19pm | To get an idea of size look at the windows at the top of the command module. Those Are normal people sized windows/portholes probably about a meter or so in size. |
March 17, 2011 - 10:23pm | So how many decks/levels are in the rings? -iggy |
 March 18, 2011 - 8:44am | So how many decks/levels are in the rings? If the windows on the upper deck are a meter in size, then I'd guess you have one, maybe two decks at most in the ring. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
