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lil-mimzy — Auroris: Ship Map and Reference
Published: 2014-05-20 03:56:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 3157; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 17
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A depiction of the general shape and contents of the arkship Auroris. The details of the setting may be left up to interpretation; we ourselves have a Pinterest here that shows some of our personal inspirations.Related content
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This may be a silly question, but what level would a sports field be on? Baseball fields, soccer fields, basketball courts, etc. I would guess someplace in the Atrium, but I'm not sure which level.
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There might be a few leisure gyms and such in the Top Level of the Atrium, and larger sports fields in the Middle Level with the other pokemon training facilities. Pokemon are highly involved in the sports of the canon pokeverse (I seem to recall a hilarious version of pokemon soccer) and it's probably the same on Auroris, haha
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Hm... With those shields, the explosion must've been internal.
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Question, Each person has to work, where exactly does the Researches work, they're job is mostly involving science and computers, do they work in some lab, specifically which part on the ship?
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They work in a variety of areas depending on their field, but a lot of them work in a variety of labs in The Belt.
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Is it a closed system (nutrients/material constantly recycled and reused) or open (you chuck out waste as you go but hoover up hydrogen or send out robotic craft to gather materials for you to resupply enroute)? I mean, I guess Ark must be holding onto some pretty big resource tanks somewhere in the factory anyway because the population has expanded significantly so he's definitely putting in more than he's getting out but is it new material or stored?
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Auroris probably runs on a heavily closed system, with recycling being a very, very big deal. However, most of these details are left up to everyone's headcanons! We love seeing what awesome concepts and ideas people come up with, given the setting. So, if you'd like, you can definitely run with a different idea if it suits your purposes, story-wise.
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Thanks for the quick reply!
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I have a quick question, which I don't believe has been mentioned anywhere, but how large is the ship? Like from tip-to-tip, a few kilometres or maybe even several miles long?
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It'd be extremely large - the top level of the atrium has multi-floor buildings stacked on top of each other, the middle one has more than one stadium-sized arena and the bottom one contains a small forest as well as plots for gardening and farming, and that's just the atrium. The hangar would also be huge to comfortably fit and launch/land shuttles, etc. and the Quarters are basically 6000 flats. Then there's a ton of machinery in the factor, and the engines are bulky as well - even just the cockpit is around the size of a football stadium. So very, very big.
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So like something rivalling the Death Star in size?
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We're trying not going to put an official number to give you guys the most flexibility and to save a whole lot of argument about feasibility.
Hypothetical discussions are fine though! Personally, I would put it at a LOT smaller than either Death Star. Somewhere between 1-1.5km tall, which is about 2 CN Towers, or something like 10 Saturn Vs. Scifi wise, I think that's comparable to an Imperial Star Destroyer flipped vertically. It probably would have taken too long to build a true behemoth like the Death Star, but this is just how I see it.
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Quick question, what form/how much surveillance was there on the Auroris before the kaboom? Like, were the living quarters mostly private or did they have cameras all around except for like, bathrooms?
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The only true privacy aboard was when you were in a windy place or somewhere filled with music or noise, and away from all devices and drones, so there wasn't much! However, Ark didn't monitor everything actively; he would pay attention to what interests him, but if a trigger word or action or biosign (like 'mutiny', a fight or a heart attack respectively) was picked up then he'd start actively monitoring and possibly intervening. Cabins and bathrooms, he wouldn't look in at all unless one of the above triggers occurred, or if someone wanted to chat or ask him something while there.
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Aaah, thank you thank you. That helps me with planning my character, I appreciate the response :3
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Hello, a quick question!!
I have a character who is a geoscientist/gardener - so since a geoscientist would likely not be of practical use on a space ship, would this character then be a Specialist/farmer ? Or would they need to be a Researcher in order to have that level of education?
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It would depend on their primary job! If their primary occupation is with geoscience and supplemented by gardening, then they would be a Researcher. If they were a gardener who heightened their techniques with geoscience, then they would be a Specialist.
Thank you for your question~
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So if 80% of the ship’s population was killed just after midday (as midday as you can be in space), does that mean that normally most of the crew/civilians/inhabitants spend their days mostly in the Factory/Hanger?
and only ~6000 population? after several generation the population has only doubled? are there rules about having few children or something to not over populate?
I apologize to sound nit-picky, i’m just asking for more about the culture on the Auroris 
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Don't apologise! We love worldbuilding :]
For your first question - not so much the hangar probably, but the offices/classes in the Belt, the Factory and absolutely the Atrium which is the recreational part, would have been where most were at the explosion. It'll be clear once the damage ref is up, but essentially everything under the top level of the Atrium has gone to hell. We timed the explosion at lunch time so members could have their ocs survive thanks to a lunch break for an easy explanation.
The population was about 3.5k when the explosion hit. Full disclosure: I used some online population growth estimator to calculate that there would have been a bit over 200 people in the initial crew 200 odd years ago, not heavy duty math. it is summer :] The 6000 above serves as a rough maximum capacity that the Auroris could sustain in case everyone had bred like rabbits. Ark would introduce population controls if they were projected to go over that but as of now, colonists can have as many or as few kids as they like!
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thats a good explanation. “Ugh, first I have to eat this egg salad sandwich, now an explosion!? Grrr-ate!” *gets sucked into space*
oh i thought 3.5k was the original population, but that makes a lot of sense now
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great last words for the Marker clan right there
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one of many possible ironic and lame deaths.
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Ship reference yesssss.
This may be a silly question, but where was the Auroris going? And would the laypeople (i.e. non-Command factions) know the details of the mission?
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Here in the History section of the journal, it is revealed that the Auroris is headed to create a new civilization on. And yes, laypeople would be very well aware of their (and their ancestors') goals regarding the new world, though they might not know every single detail.
Thank you for your questions!
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Cool. Thanks for pointing me towards the History section. I thought I had read it, but apparently not carefully enough. DX
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I would like to be the party-pooper here and ask why meteor showers and gas giants are listed as reasons for having shields. :U Meteor showers are just a large bunch of small meteoroids/space debris burning upon entering Earth's atmosphere and gas giants are large gas planets such as Jupiter so I personally fail to see how either could possibly be considered a threat.
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I supplied the writing so first off, thanks for pointing out the meteor inaccuracy! It was like 3am, and I always get asteroids (which I'm sure we can agree are an excellent reason for shields) and meteors mixed up. We've fixed that now. With the gas giants comment, I was envisioning the Auroris passing close enough to exoplanets for their foreign atmospheres, ice/dust/debris rings and hard-to-detect shepherd moons to be a threat, but since our own solar system's gas giants are known for those traits, I figured 'gas giants' was a decent shorthand. I realise that logically, a course would be plotted to make use of the abundance of actual space in space, making these threats pretty negligible, but that's no fun for our Pokemon OCT, is it? :]
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Oh, no. Meteoroids are one of the biggest threat to any and all satellites and spacecrafts but my problem wasn't that, it was the terminology used("meteor shower" is a very specific phenomenon that only happens less than 500km from Earth's surface -the proper term for a group of meteoroids is a "swarm"). An asteroid would refer to a celestial body larger than 100m in diameter, ie: minor planets.
Since you clearly misunderstood my comment about the gas giants, let me reword that part of the sheet to better illustrate why it makes little sense to me. "With strong gusts, stones, and roads ahead, Billy makes a good use of his helmet". "Ice, dust, and satellites orbiting gas giants" is a few words longer, yes, but at least it'd make it look less like whoever built the ship considered the gas giants themselves an actual threat to the passengers' safety.
Even if the the ship was moving at the speed of light, it would still only come across stars every half a decade or so and solar systems with exoplanets maybe once a century at best so it's only logical to think that the ship would visit any and all planets it can while it's actually there. I'm not sure why you assumed that I'd be against such so I'll just ignore your last sentence.
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Hi! I hate to interrupt this discussion, but this map was primarily intended to go over the anatomy of the ship and its basic functions and uses, with a bit of flavor text here and there for aesthetic and worldbuilding purposes. It was not intended to start any kind of debate. I apologize for any kind of illogical or unscientific inaccuracies, but it looks a bit to me like splitting hairs over a two line note on a map meant simply for people to know their spacial orientation on the ship.
I sincerely appreciate your comments and enthusiasm, and if you choose to join our OCT I hope we can continue to do our best in creating a fun, stress-free environment to play with a sci-fi/horror theme that everyone can enjoy. I hope you don't mind that the discussion cuts off here; I do not want to risk any further misunderstanding.
(Though I would like to note that ship is headed for a particular destination and not stopping along the way, thus would not visit any planets it can.)
Thank you very much for your input, I hope to see you around!
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I apologize if I came off rude or too blunt, I've been told I sound like a serial killer when I don't use emoticons in my text. >_>;
...I can't see why proper terminology would ruin the fun from anyone but it's your group so I shall respect your wishes.
I had been thinking about joining since a friend is very interested but eh, I get the feeling that I'd just bore everyone with science.
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No need to apologize! I didn't get that impression at all.
It's not a matter of proper terminology ruining the fun from anyone at all, but actually a matter of time and detail and the importance of flavor text vs. other things we are doing at the same time. I absolutely appreciate your concern and attention, though, and in the future we certainly will make an effort to improve the clarity and concision of details like these.
And because this OCT is science fiction along with horror, I assure you that you wouldn't bore anyone with a scientifically oriented storyline/character if you did choose to join.
Thank you for commenting! ~
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Would you guys be able to make something like this but showing exactly what parts of the ship were destroyed?
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That exact reference is still in the process of being created! It will contain notes on destroyed parts of the ship, obstacles, and other unsafe areas.
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So from where down has it been lost? Like around the belt or?
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Everything from the Belt down is damaged/unsafe. Another map detailing obstacles and dangerous parts of the ship is still in the works, so keep an eye out!
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(“everything below the belt is unsafe” teehee teehee)
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Omg, how did I not foresee that when naming the ship's parts :'D
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oh gawd this is more epic looking then I anticipated. It explains a lot of questions I had at first, so wonderful job
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