The Blue Horizons
03 Oct 2015ParkTyGreen
So I decided to call the Fer-De-Lance I just bought the "Blue Horizons"I thought that name would be great because of how the sunsets appeared on my first visit to Mars.
After lots of paperwork, I got the registration number.
Walking around the ship was enough to make me feel overwhelmed. The bright white corridors are shaped like an oval, and are about an average of just over a couple metres across, with groves containing small white lights, and the black floor with wooden accents and blue guidelights. There is a small kitchen, about 4m by 5m in size, and a fancy sitting area with premium white, stain resistant, wear resistant, leather seats, and a glass table that also has a hologram generator! The captain's quarters are nice! The room is divided into corners by glass walls that you can make transparent or solid! There is a ledge with three wooden steps that leads up past the glass in a corner, and it goes into the main bed area. The bed is adjustable as well! On the left side on entering the Captain's Quarters, there are also some wooden steps leading up to a desk area, and a closet. There is also a large indent in the wall with a low-power consuming LCD screen that you can set to display any scenery. For the real TV in the CQ, there is a pull-out panel that projects a holograph! There are four bathrooms positioned around the ship, one only has a toilet and a sink, but the other three have both toilet, sink shower, and everything. They are furnished with wood accents as well and the glass in the showers is like the glass in the captain's quarters. Did I mention there is another bathroom in the captain's quarters? There are also three vacant crew quarters around the ship on the same level as the captain's quarters. They're all the same type of room, slightly bigger than the kitchen, with a Holotable, and a twin-sized bed, there are also those indents in the walls with digital images of scenery you can set like in the Captain's Quarters. The infirmary is on the same level as the quarters, it has two entrances, both with an activatable force-field used in quarantine. The room is about the size of the Captain's Quarters, with those glass panels like in said room that you can dig up or make transparent. For convenience, there's also an operating table near the aft side of the room. There are elevators, but also a narrow emergency shaft. Along with hat, there are a series of shafts around the ship like the one leading to the bridge. There are two elevators that lead up to the bridge, and in the indent in the wall there is the emergency shaft opening. Large doors can be closed to shut off the bridge from the elevators. Upon entering the bridge area, there is a large round room outside the elevators and stairs, and past a low clearance door there is a lounge area behind the main bridge. There is a TV to the left, white sofas surrounding the room, and a large glass skylight above that is one-way. Those sofas in the lounge are very comfortable, I think I'll be there a lot. Anyways, the bridge is expansive. One commanding seat is slightly more forward than the copilot seat. There are control consoles on either side as part of the wall, and a long glass canopy extending down to the doorway into the lounge. It seems there canopy is great for visibility, I can see unobscured in all angles except down. There is a lot of storage space as well. The docking port area leads straight to a set of elevators, plus emergency stairway. The elevator going up to the docking port extends all the way to the lowest level of the ship, which has access to the ramp out of the ship. That is the main elevator essentially.
Anyways, took the ship out for the first flight, and I got to say, it's a dream to fly. That engine sound too, I'm sure I'll never get tired of that. I bought a blue Military paint job for the ship, got it all outfitted, and then set off back to 19 Phi. Before jumping out of KP Tauri, I set my old "Coca Cola" bottlecap in the side compartment. After a few jumps, I arrived back home, not as wealthy as when I left, but definitely with a fine ship. I'll get started with my schedule Bounty hunting again, and I found this system called '109 Piscium' that might be good for Bounty hunting.
This is Commander ParkTy Green,
Signing off.