Guide to the Station: Questions, Comments, Discussion

FuryMaster

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I'm starting this topic becuase I am slowly reading through this great work and I know that I will have questions and maybe comments to make about it.

I've started with the Guide to the Station and spent a bit of time wrapping my brain around the physics of the station and how to find things and get to those places. My first question is about the Central Corridor. Does it travel the legnth of BLue and Red Sectors like the Core Train does? Does the Central Corridor occupy its own deck, if so which Deck is it? Or is it between decks?
 
the central corridor runs in a loop around the radius of the rotating section, not the length. don't remember what deck...

Chern
 
Ok..as I understand it a deck covers the legnth of a sector while also looping around the circumference of the station. The decks are further divided into 16 wedges. So if I understand it correctly the Central Corridor would span 1 deck in each sector (Blue and Red) covering the legnth of those sectors. So ultimately am I understanding the layout of the station correctly and if so then the Central Corridor does occupy a specific deck that is numbered or maybe it isn't numbered just called the Central Corridor.
 
I don't think the dexk is in 2 sectors but I could be wrong, its jsut a ring on one sector right?

Chern
 
Sorry to be so long in responding to this ... real world concerns and all. :)

The Central Corridor is basically a donut connecting Red and Blue. It's the only way out of Blue Sector for those coming through customs on their way to Red. Since it exists sort of separately from the rest of Blue Sector (being about the only place in the sector aside from Part of Blue 1, if memory serves, that isn't restricted access) I didn't assign it its own deck number. All access to Blue Sector from the Central Corridor leads into the customs areas of the station, while all access to Red Sector leads to Red 27, which also has the Zocalo, the Casino and the pedestrian entrance to the Garden.

Does that help at all?
 
I think it does...so bassically a deck in any sector is a donut divided into wedges...The Central Coridor is like a deck but less wide maybe and seperating Blue and Red Sector...it actually sounds like it occupies the same Deck that Customs is located on....I don't believe Customs was given a deck number either was it? I guess the Blue sector deck would correspond to Red 27 so it would be one of the outer decks. Also what Deck is C&C located on?

Thanks Greg, ilove the book thats why i'm trying to understand exactly how it all fits together..Bab 5 is much more complex than I imagined and that makes it even cooler...understanding this stuff could make chase scenes and other encounters even more interesting.

Fm
 
Yes! Definately buy this product. This is one of the most detailed and well thought out game supplements I have ever seen (for the old timers out there...this is as detailed as "The City State of the Invincible Overlord", without being so over the top. After all how many 6th level fighter bartenders and 3rd level thief stableboys can there be in one city? As I said, for the old timers out there.)
The detail is sufficient to flesh out the station for practically endless play while still leaving plenty of room to fill in details of your own. It also covers nearly all areas of station operation so GM's can answer those inevitable "why" questions.
Again let me say, buy it!!!
 
aelius said:
Yes! Definately buy this product. This is one of the most detailed and well thought out game supplements I have ever seen (for the old timers out there...this is as detailed as "The City State of the Invincible Overlord", without being so over the top. After all how many 6th level fighter bartenders and 3rd level thief stableboys can there be in one city? As I said, for the old timers out there.)
The detail is sufficient to flesh out the station for practically endless play while still leaving plenty of room to fill in details of your own. It also covers nearly all areas of station operation so GM's can answer those inevitable "why" questions.
Again let me say, buy it!!!

:takes extravagant bow:
 
Iv'e got more questions and comments...but yes the praise for this product is well deseerved.

In 'Life on the Station' it is stated that the docking bays can hold ships of up to gargantuan size....this seems incredible especially since there are 60 docking bays...this means a Nova or Omega could dock with the station...is this correct? Was there ever a debate about what size ship can dock with the station or hard evidence from the show that the station could hold a ship of that size within its bays.

How many decks does each sector have? Yellow Sector is clearly stated as having 1 deck.
What is on Blue Decks 25 and 26? It seems that customs might be on Deck 27 since the Central Dorridor is on the same deck as the Zocalo which is on Red 27 and 28.
What is on the decks above Buew 27,28? Are these starfury bays or are those in the docking hub? I assume that C&C is located on the outermost deck of Blue Sector or on the stations surface as its own hub? How do you access C&C...blue sector tubes with proper clearance?
What deck space do the gardens occupy? another words are they equivelent to say Deck 5 through 52 of Red Sector.

Thanks
 
FuryMaster said:
In 'Life on the Station' it is stated that the docking bays can hold ships of up to gargantuan size....this seems incredible especially since there are 60 docking bays...this means a Nova or Omega could dock with the station...is this correct? Was there ever a debate about what size ship can dock with the station or hard evidence from the show that the station could hold a ship of that size within its bays.

Is that Starship scale gargantuan or normal gargantuan though..?

In the series, the largest ship we saw dock was the Vorlon Transport pretty much, the Whitestar is just a bit big to get through the Docking hatch on the front.
 
FuryMaster said:
How many decks does each sector have? Yellow Sector is clearly stated as having 1 deck.
What is on Blue Decks 25 and 26? It seems that customs might be on Deck 27 since the Central Dorridor is on the same deck as the Zocalo which is on Red 27 and 28.
What is on the decks above Buew 27,28? Are these starfury bays or are those in the docking hub? I assume that C&C is located on the outermost deck of Blue Sector or on the stations surface as its own hub? How do you access C&C...blue sector tubes with proper clearance?
What deck space do the gardens occupy? another words are they equivelent to say Deck 5 through 52 of Red Sector.

Thanks
From memory, Red, Blue, Grey & Brown sectors each have 30 decks. Well, there's only 29 Grey decks, but, y'know..
 
PhoenixAndy said:
FuryMaster said:
How many decks does each sector have? Yellow Sector is clearly stated as having 1 deck.
What is on Blue Decks 25 and 26? It seems that customs might be on Deck 27 since the Central Dorridor is on the same deck as the Zocalo which is on Red 27 and 28.
What is on the decks above Buew 27,28? Are these starfury bays or are those in the docking hub? I assume that C&C is located on the outermost deck of Blue Sector or on the stations surface as its own hub? How do you access C&C...blue sector tubes with proper clearance?
What deck space do the gardens occupy? another words are they equivelent to say Deck 5 through 52 of Red Sector.

Thanks
From memory, Red, Blue, Grey & Brown sectors each have 30 decks. Well, there's only 29 Grey decks, but, y'know..

Grey 17 is missing
 
Shadow Queen said:
PhoenixAndy said:
From memory, Red, Blue, Grey & Brown sectors each have 30 decks. Well, there's only 29 Grey decks, but, y'know..

Grey 17 is missing

Exactly. :)

Although, we know exactly where it is, but the real question is, which Grey 17 do you want? The normal one, or the real one, with wacky Robert Englund & a Zarg? :D
 
Here are deck numbers that i've gathered so far from the Guide

Blue Sector- List info up to Deck 24
Red Sector- Locations listed under Downbelow have Red Sector going till at least deck 40
Green Sector list 3 decks and then the Gardens with a Downbelow entry mentioning Green 5 as the Gardens
Brown Sector has locations up to Deck 52
Grey Sector has listings up to 20
Yellow has 1 Deck

It seems that Blue should have many more Decks (whats on them if they do exist?)
Red maybe goes up to 52 also?
Green, Gardens fill up the space from 4-52?
Brown is complete?
Grey should have 30?
Yellow is complete?
 
PhoenixAndy said:
Shadow Queen said:
PhoenixAndy said:
From memory, Red, Blue, Grey & Brown sectors each have 30 decks. Well, there's only 29 Grey decks, but, y'know..

Grey 17 is missing

Exactly. :)

Although, we know exactly where it is, but the real question is, which Grey 17 do you want? The normal one, or the real one, with wacky Robert Englund & a Zarg? :D

the latter....

does the guide cover weapon permits???
 
FuryMaster said:
Iv'e got more questions and comments...but yes the praise for this product is well deseerved.

In 'Life on the Station' it is stated that the docking bays can hold ships of up to gargantuan size....this seems incredible especially since there are 60 docking bays...this means a Nova or Omega could dock with the station...is this correct? Was there ever a debate about what size ship can dock with the station or hard evidence from the show that the station could hold a ship of that size within its bays.

Hmmm. Yeah, that's my bad. I think I was writing that part around 3 a.m., with a little too much caffeine and nicotine in my blood, and was looking at the wrong chart (probably the Size Modifier table under 'Attack'). The correct ship size should be Medium - cargo shuttles and free traders. It would be entertaining, though, to watch a Sharlin try to fit... Lo siento.

FuryMaster said:
How many decks does each sector have? Yellow Sector is clearly stated as having 1 deck.
What is on Blue Decks 25 and 26? It seems that customs might be on Deck 27 since the Central Dorridor is on the same deck as the Zocalo which is on Red 27 and 28.
What is on the decks above Buew 27,28? Are these starfury bays or are those in the docking hub? I assume that C&C is located on the outermost deck of Blue Sector or on the stations surface as its own hub? How do you access C&C...blue sector tubes with proper clearance?
What deck space do the gardens occupy? another words are they equivelent to say Deck 5 through 52 of Red Sector.

C&C does exist separately from the other decks. It's closest to Blue 1, being set right off the docking portal, and can only be accessed with proper security credentials.

Blue Sector was in fact the hardest part of the station to write. For one, it's a weird shape. For another, it's got so much enormous infrastructure running through it (docking bays, Starfury return, etc.) that it led me to bang my head on the desk more than once. :)

Anything above (or, more accurately, below, since the closer to the outer hull of the station the deck is, the farther down it actually is) Blue 24 is all docking facilities, Starfury return, customs and storage. In other words, once you pass Blue 24, there are no contiguous decks in the traditional sense.

The Gardens occupy almost the entirety of Green Sector, leaving room for only a few decks sandwiched between the Garden infrastructure and the infrastructure packed against the outer hull of the station.

The number of decks varies from sector to sector, as does the space between any two given decks in any given sector. As I mentioned a second ago, Blue has 24 useful decks, though there's a lot going on outside of those decks. I believe Red has a total of 45 decks, though anything past Deck 38 or 39 is considered Downbelow territory. Green only has two full decks (with a partial third containing the EarthForce office and council chambers). Brown Sector has the most decks (53 total), simply because for the majority of the sector (the industrial area), there is little or no space between the decks - the decks simply being different levels of catwalks and platforms in that very unpleasant place. Again, the outermost few decks are considered Downbelow.

Grey Sector was another hard one, in that only part of it rotates and it's got that great big spine attached to it. However, it has only 22 decks (23 if you count the redundant Grey 17). However, there are some unfinished areas of this sector that could have become additional decks.

Yellow has just the one deck as the vast majority of the sector is taken up by the station's enormous power plants. The one deck is the nerve center for overseeing all the station's power needs and is the only place in the sector with life support. Of course, it is possible to access the rest of the sector (gotta be able to go make repairs, after all).
 
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