[WIP][RA] Cruise Liner Aurora (and accompanying lifeships)

[RedDwarfIV]

Cruise Liner Aurora, the largest sea-going civilian vessel ever constructed by Haikovans - so large, in fact, that it carries not just a flotilla of lifeboats but four entire lifeships, the Entourage, Escort, Waverunner and Tribute. Two of those lifeships are conventional single-hulled passenger vessels, and the other two are high-speed catamarans.

This vessel has an exceedingly high passenger capacity, and has every facility possible somewhere on board. During the siege of Anfywa Island, the ship was commandeered by the HSD and acted as a troop carrier from the mainland, and deployed the majority of soldiers sent there.* As with large aircraft carriers and icebreakers, the Aurora is powered by nuclear engines, in this case thorium molten salt reactors to negate the threat of meltdown or dangerous radiation levels. She has twenty one decks. Below that is either engines or ballast.

*The Siege Of Anfywa Island was the result of a faction of anarchists attempting to cause heavy damage to HSD infrastructure through means of a captured HSD facility which controlled an orbital missile platform - capable of deploying a large number of nuclear missiles. Said facility was designed to withstand bombings, and the anarchist faction had taken control of other areas of the island including one port city and several major towns.

(This thing is seriously massive. I googled \'21 decks\' and this was the only related result:

...yeah.)

[LaydeeDem]

Big massive boat thingamajig.

Nice! How big is it exactly the exact dimensions? Also, your 21 decks image isn\'t showing.

[RedDwarfIV]

Nice! How big is it exactly the exact dimensions? Also, your 21 decks image isn\'t showing.

Haven\'t figured dimensions yet. Though each deck is 1.5X the equivalent of a Human ship\'s.

Fixed image.

[RedDwarfIV]

Each deck is roughly 7M. From this, we can infer that the Aurora is 164m tall [from the waterline] and 367m long. Whilst there are Earth vessels that long, none are so high as the Aurora, and none are catermarans, wheras the Aurora is - giving the ship a much wider stance and so having much greater size.

Also shown in the image below is the lengths and heights of the lifeships.

[Kryten]

It doesn\'t really say \'cruise liner\' to me to be honest, there\'s almost no windows, very few balconies, and essentially no outside space.

[popeter123]

you do know the curise ship aurora allredy exsists. it owened by P&O(or regurly joked piano)

i go on it every year

[RedDwarfIV]

It doesn\'t really say \'cruise liner\' to me to be honest, there\'s almost no windows, very few balconies, and essentially no outside space.

[WIP] = Work In Progress.

There will be windows, and there is plenty of outside space. Because its tall, it looks short, but the areas at the back stretch right across the width of the ship. They are plenty big enough for doing whatever you want in.

Anyway, the lack of windows/balconies is because they haven\'t been drawn in yet.

[LaydeeDem]

Dayum! It\'s larger than I thought.

[ronnronn]

Well, first thing you should probably think about is its LxHxW dimmentions. for a Large ship to be stable it needs to be much longer than its hight and its weight needs to be mostly below the water line.

For a ship that size using a rescue hovercraft wouldn\'t be a bad idea, considering that several pasengers will likley fall overboard during a catastrophic emergency. and you woldnot want to accedently kill anyone by piloting a rescue boat over them. a hover craft would not harm you if it glided straight over you. Also the hover craft would need 4 wench cranes with harneses for lifting people out of the water.

[Phoenix Aerospace]

I\'d agree with Ronnronn here. Needs to be longer and deeper. Also, you might want to think of redistributing the height. I recall a concept for a truly massive cruise liner that was basically a flat platform with several towers jutting out of the top. Forgot its name, though.

[Naiba]

A long, narrow ship is much easier to propel than a shorter, wider one.