Where would you like to jump to at Sittahr? There are three gas giants in the primary system, and two in the distant companion system. Plus the mainworld, of course :-)

We'll jump to the inner gas giant and refuel.  Can we refuel the runabout in space?

Yep :-)

Works for me!  Great post BTW.

I'm thinking we can keep wandering the Main for a bit.

Fair enough.  It's easier to stick to J1 than do a deep space refueling.

A week or so by normal space to the main world?

Yep - quicker to microjump.

We are fueled and could micro jump back to the gas giant if we ran into trouble.

Correct - except you'll have to boost back out to 100 diameters to make a safe jump.

Right, I was thinking if something jumped us as we came out of Jump

That is the problem faced by every ship. All you can do is be ready to fight or run.

Ah, crap. I should have factored in temperature when discussing Cosenza. I've edited my last post to correct that. Sorry.

I posted a couple of renders showing Wanderer's bridge. The bridge deck is raised, so you can see the topmost of four steps leading up in the cutaway view.

The colors aren't quite right, especially for the holographic control screens, but it's a decent representation of the bridge. Normally, the jumpseats are stowed under the deck, and the main seats swivel so that people can get in and out.

That's very good.  With holographic controls you'd have simple instrument panels.

What are the three primary stations? Pilot... ?

The stations are all configurable for anything, but, for now, the left station is gunnery, and the right station is navigation. Joxe and Veronica have two stations in Engineering, and Naimh has a sensors station rigged in the upper lounge.

The bridge overhead is just above the seat headrests, so everyone has to duck when they climb the steps. The holoscreens are fully configurable, but I have them all set to the default of a main screen, two side screens, a touchpad on the right, and a keyboard on the left.

The joysticks (with cables!) are a retrofitted item that even Joxe can't really explain. You can also see the foot pedals for yaw control, too. The red boxes under the seats are for emergency manual controls that attach between the armrests. Oh, and two of the stations have trays to the left of the seat armrest.

I also posted a pic with the holoscreens lighted. I'm learning more all the time about Daz :-)
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Colors... nice!

Not a bad idea to have some degree of hard wired back up controls.  And cup holders of course :)

Considering that people sit there for hours at a time, I figured a tray would be nice, since there are no consoles.

Is there anything missing that you can think of?

You'd likely have panels on the overhead as well.

I thought of that, but then I considered a couple of things:

1. The overhead panels on large aircraft are there for additional controls that don't fit on the forward panels. With holographic controls, they can flip pages like the ribbon in Excel or other applications. The multi-function displays on modern combat aircraft use the same concept.

2. Some of those controls are engine-related, like starters, and electrical-related, like circuit breakers. Those functions are handled by the engineer with their own holoscreen controls.

Very true...  it may be though that having the extra real estate for controls displays can't hurt.  You might want auxiliary views for sensors or such.

It's a minor thing.

We could - I'll leave that as an open question for now ;-)

Also, I posted a couple of pics showing the crew area in the Dropbox.

I won't quibble!!!!

Nice crew areas. I like that the ship's interior or at least the crew areas don't look like the inside of a submarine!  Actually the wardroom on the Texas was pretty nice looking.

When Linda and I visited the Texas, we ended up going into the Admiral's quarters by mistake. The whole area was air conditioned, and we got a private tour from one of the staff members - after we apologized for getting into an area that was normally off-limits.

The area was about the same as the wardroom, although it was roomier, of course. Even then, it wasn't palatial by any means. It reminded me of a Pullman car.

Actually my Texas was CGN-39 :)

I would expect the admiral had a very nice area.  Everything is compact so the rail comparison is very apt.