the waste disposal system broke down because people kept putting metal items in the non-metal bins etc. Gash (Royal Navy technical term) was piling up all over the place till they got to port to deal with it (it can't go overboard any more). Perhaps in busy solar systems (or Jump?) there are similar restrictions.
- and of course the whole deal with having a film crew aboard making the documentary might be a possible source of fun- the ship's band (pretty basic in gear and skills) were asked to perform in a small (pub?) in one port they were visiting- a propeller blade had been misaligned by just a few millimetres and was causing big vibration/noise problems as well as reductions in speed till it got fixed. While I don't imagine an Imperial dreadnought having a propeller, I'm sure there could be something similar- the waste disposal system broke down because people kept putting metal items in the non-metal bins etc. Gash (Royal Navy technical term) was piling up all over the place till they got to port to deal with it (it can't go overboard any more). Perhaps in busy solar systems (or Jump?) there are similar restrictions.- Captain Kidd (yes, really!) has two full time stewards bringing him Hobnob biscuits etc so there's a 'background' for an NPC or even a PCThe Ob Travs wrote themselves as you watched the documentary, but very quickly a few things that come to mind that could be adapted:There was a host of interesting/surprising facts which I probably should have made note of but some that stood out - she has a crew of just 700 thanks to "lean manning" and Amazon-like delivery systems for ammunition so that just 50 men/women can handle the weapons reloads instead the 500 I think they said that a US carrier would take. (Though a bit of me was asking the tv "yes, but what happens when it's damaged, or the ship's listing badly, or a lot of your crew are incapacitated" etc). There are some 5km of passageways and over 3000 spaces on board - for anyone who fancies doing deck plans!I appreciate that although it might "Britain's biggest", our American friends are probably laughing in their boots compared to your carriers, but it didn't look too dwarfed when she met the USS George H.W. Bush in the third episode. And as was pointed out, she's much more modern. (But electrically powered, rather than nuclear powered).You can find some basic details here:Hi there,Yesterday I finished watching the three part 'Britain's Biggest Warship' documentary on our new aircraft carrier. Well worth watching if you can find it on channels locally although I am a might biased being a navy brat (both my parents served) and seeing the ship twice a day as I cross Portsmouth Harbour on my commute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrierOne obvious difference is that she has two islands not one. One is a more standard bridge for the ship and the other air traffic control. But iirc both can be done from either island.Of course, one snag at present is that she doesn't actually have any aircraft to her name as the F-35s she's eventually going to have don't come until the end of this year apparently. (Flight crews would add another 500+ to the crew figure above).- flight deck sprinkler systems had to be tested (impressive fountains) which was fine when they were on seawater but then they used the foam and crew had to sweep it away asap after the test as it corrodes metal. A lot of foam.- visiting American brass from the George Bush helicoptered over for breakfast - bacon butties!tc
Oh, and while I'm here. No idea what it was doing, but when I was down at the beach on a day off on Tuesday one of these odd looking things was flying around:
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