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Nothing too nuts. Just continuing detail and greeble work. this time on the dorsal side of the "neck" and after section of the ship. I also got the aft sublight engine housings in place and ready to be detailed a bit. Oh, also all four of Avenger's fighter recovery bays started. You can almost see an F/A-371C coming home to the starboard side dorsal bay. Tomorrow will be more greeble work and weapon layouts. I'd also like to get the launch tubes in place on the leading edge of the "wings".

The Fighter bays on Alliance cruisers are just a single space with an elevator to the hangar deck below. Once the doors are open to the launch bay, everyone has to evac because of decompression or get into EVA suits. Carriers have their bays separated into three sections. Aft is the recovery bay. Amidships is the maintenance/hangar bay. Forward is the main launch bay. Each is separated by massive doors so that work can continue in the bays that do not have ships actively transiting. The Avenger takes that idea and tweaks it a bit. Now, normally, loading of ordinance is handled in the launch bay prior to departure. Meaning if there are any issues, the crew has to abandon work on a particular bird until the rest have launched and the bay is repressurized.

Avenger moves the launch area out of the bay and into twenty-four launch tubes on the leading edge of the wings. These are sealed toward the outer aperture while being loaded or not in use, and close behind when launching. Meaning there is no interruption of work in the main bay. This also moves and somewhat negates a potential failure point, the main bay doors on carriers and cruisers. While heavily reinforced, they're not invulnerable. If they were damaged severely enough in a fight, the bay could depressurize. The tubes add a few redundancies as well making it harder to do enough damage to actually blow the bay out. The tubes are roughly 100 meters in length leaving a lot of space between the outer edge of the wing and the inner bay doors. Multiple emergency bulkheads can be erected in the tubes should failures occur.

Description
Nothing too nuts. Just continuing detail and greeble work. this time on the dorsal side of the "neck" and after section of the ship. I also got the aft sublight engine housings in place and ready to be detailed a bit. Oh, also all four of Avenger's fighter recovery bays started. You can almost see an F/A-371C coming home to the starboard side dorsal bay. Tomorrow will be more greeble work and weapon layouts. I'd also like to get the launch tubes in place on the leading edge of the "wings".

The Fighter bays on Alliance cruisers are just a single space with an elevator to the hangar deck below. Once the doors are open to the launch bay, everyone has to evac because of decompression or get into EVA suits. Carriers have their bays separated into three sections. Aft is the recovery bay. Amidships is the maintenance/hangar bay. Forward is the main launch bay. Each is separated by massive doors so that work can continue in the bays that do not have ships actively transiting. The Avenger takes that idea and tweaks it a bit. Now, normally, loading of ordinance is handled in the launch bay prior to departure. Meaning if there are any issues, the crew has to abandon work on a particular bird until the rest have launched and the bay is repressurized.

Avenger moves the launch area out of the bay and into twenty-four launch tubes on the leading edge of the wings. These are sealed toward the outer aperture while being loaded or not in use, and close behind when launching. Meaning there is no interruption of work in the main bay. This also moves and somewhat negates a potential failure point, the main bay doors on carriers and cruisers. While heavily reinforced, they're not invulnerable. If they were damaged severely enough in a fight, the bay could depressurize. The tubes add a few redundancies as well making it harder to do enough damage to actually blow the bay out. The tubes are roughly 100 meters in length leaving a lot of space between the outer edge of the wing and the inner bay doors. Multiple emergency bulkheads can be erected in the tubes should failures occur.