#CICS

[catilinas]

wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday

[gunk404]

I have a theory

[shadesofmauve]

Alliance Normandy SR2 redesign: Deck 2

All of the decks are longer and skinnier than what we see in game. (This isn't a complaint; running through a long skinny map is tedious!). The command deck is a particular puzzle, because it doesn't need to be as long as it is, and we're supposed to believe it's much longer — extending all the way to the nose, which it can't do unless the deck curves down:

Aesthetically, I'd like the command deck to extend farther forward than I've drawn it. Practically, I can't think of a reason why it would.

CIC & cockpit

Spaceships fly by instrumentation; you can steer from anywhere, so there's no reason to hike an extra forty-four meters to the cockpit. There are also far more work stations shown in game than seem reasonable: 14 in the CIC and corridor to the cockpit. What are they all doing? When you take into account capable Virtual Intelligence systems (the Alliance didn't know about EDI, but would have designed for a VI) it's even sillier, so I drastically reduced the number of stations in the CIC, and removed them from the corridor entirely.

The corridor needs to stay to keep the feel of the space, so I used it for escape pod access. In the CIC itself, I kept the shape but oriented the workstations forward in case of inertial-buffer overloads*. There are two doors to the CIC, so the Officer of the Watch doesn't have a door directly at their back.

I also added a ready room, the office for the Officer of the Watch (accessible from the CIC), which also serves as a briefing room. In Sunset and Evening Star, this is where Shepard and First Office Nguyen have their morning meetings.

*Any system can overload. The trick with inertial overloads in fiction is convincing the reader that there's enough overload to feel without mashing everyone inside into paste, which is an astonishingly narrow window. It's an even narrower window if the human is sideways to the inertial force; we are very bad at surviving that.

The awkward middle

I stretched out the area forward of the elevator as much as I could. As well as the two new offices, there's a head for the CIC crew, another escape pod, and access to the secure areas aft. Moving that access here reduces traffic through the CIC.

(It's still a big waste of space).

Moving aft: from tactics to strategy

While the Captain commands the ship in the Combat Information Center, the Admiral leads the fleet from the War Room.

Turning starboard from the elevator, there's a security station (so Private Campbell can remain the most put-upon person in the Alliance Navy). Past that is the Admiral's office, which wasn't finished when the reapers attacked Earth.

The Alliance is actively trying to take a larger role in galactic affairs, so there are some concessions to other species. In addition to the conference room, there's a head with a stall big enough for a krogan, and a beverage station set up for both dextro and levo species. Please click to embiggen and admire my stupid little coffee mugs.

The war room is centered, in the most protected part of the ship. It keeps it's general layout, but with fewer stations (focused inward so staff can see the strat map holo display). Only one is usually manned. The Strategic Map is the grand-scale equivalent to the Tactical Modeler in the CIC. (The names are wishful thinking; in a real military both would be impenetrable acronyms).

The QEC is the same Mystery Communications Circle it is in the game, but only a quarter of the way around the War Room from the entry instead of on the opposite side.

Normandy SR2 redesign posts

Intro

Loft

Command

Crew

Engineering

Hangar

[3drod]

Peace

[naiamaree]

the ciconia and higu of last yr

[catoswound]

still my favourite thing cicero has ever said. ive reread att 2.1 so many times precisely for this

[twoplayer-game]

tbh phone

[useless-latin]

nihildum, adv. still nothing, Cic.

[become-a-robot]

Why does everyone act like Lemon Demon fans are just 14 year old tiktok users? I'm sincerely glad LD is constantly connecting with younger audiences, and I think it's shitty to heckle younger fans of any band, but also he's been around since the early 2000s. He was on Doctor Demento before some of his fans were even born, he definitely has older ones!

[jadeiepie]

neil cic stamps !! 💗

[catilinas]

classic cicero moment

[highoncatfood]

MY MOUTH GOT 4 MOODS

[the-real-okultra]

Alright guys I feel like an evil fucking wizard so here's 30 pictures of Neil Cicierega that you probably haven't seen. Have fun.

[3drod]

Let's start 2024 with a bang! I wanted to share some of my achievable goals for 2024: - Get rolling on that Counter Isekai Corps webcomic (Lots of writing already done. ( •̀ ω •́ )✧ - Animate a lot for practice & fun. - Set up and focus on a larger online store. 2023 was a break year for me. Both willing and unwilling. I had lots of highs but lots of lows (Like, real LOWS) I've taken baby steps to get better, & right now I feel pretty well. I hope I can continue this upward momentum into 2024. My hope is to focus mainly on CIC but I have another big project in the works. I'm very excited about it all Thanks for sticking with me! (o゜▽゜)o☆

[cidade-tempero]

lifetime achievement award

[catoswound]

pompey convincing cicero to come to him during caesars civil war