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DS-Pulsar
VT-49 Imperial Transport
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The D-S Pulsar is a Decimator Class VT-49 Imperial Transport. This specific version has been designed for urgent long range duties as to deploy a group of troopers in the other side of the galaxy as fast as possible. The Pulsar is self-suficient, equiped with its own biomass life support system allowing the ship to remain fully operational for several weeks.
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Pulsar
standing by at Claw Station |
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Welcome
on board the DS-Pulsar, our VT-49 class long range imperial transport. Here's a panoramic view of the bridge. |
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Cockpit
equiped with all the required flight instruments.Radio, thruster controls,
ascent/reentry and orbiting flight computers, HUD for the copilot, rudder
pedals and so on... |
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Cockpit
seen from the co-pilot's chair |
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Cockpit
seen from the pilot's chair, |
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Detail
of the central console (notice the pilot and co-pilot chairs are not aligned...
can't move them though) |
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Access
ramp to main level. |
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Comm.
Stations and Life Support controls. |
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Access
to infirmary and ship's access ramp. |
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Detail
of the infirmary. |
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Air-lock
inner hatch. Air pressure controls on the side. |
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Inside
the air-lock, vacuum pump conduits on top, and a few space suits + Astromech
droid ready to perform EVA. |
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Looking
back to the inner hatch, with the vacuum pump controller. |
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Oxygen
Farm : allowing the Pulsar to produce 0² and food, as well as recycle
CO² and wastes |
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You
know me ... no mission without a coffee ! The kitchen around also provides
meals for the crew and passengers during the long journeys. |
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The
amount of food and oxygen necessary to sustain a crew during a long-duration
mission would prohibitively increase the mass of spacecraft and the overall
cost of the mission. |
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To
alleviate this problem, on the Pulsar we choosed a use of plant systems
as food sources and for regenerative life support systems. The biomass
production systems is also used as a filtration system for water and atmospheric
gases. (altered quote of the NASA's biomass life support systems program) |
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Entrance
to the passenger's cabin next to the comm station. |
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Up
to 12 passengers, mostly troopers can fly on board the DS-Pulsar, though
functional, the passenger's cabin is equiped with a large screen, which
can be used for troops breifings or even to watch a movie during the travel... |
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A
few berths are available for the sleepy ones... |
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mmmm... rebel cookies... |
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The
crew and passengers can use the berths for a few hours, |
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Long
duration missions mean several days or weeks of duty. Without this facility
we would face constant mutinies on board! |
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All
you need to feel good and clean... |
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Please
don't forget this one! |
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Lounge
and private quarters of the admiral |
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Patroling
in Deep Space with the ISS Eviscerator |
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Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation (null bolts). The observed periods of their pulses range from 1.4 milliseconds to 8.5 seconds. The radiation can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the observer. This is called the lighthouse effect and gives rise to the pulsed nature that gives pulsars their name. Because neutron stars are very dense objects, the rotation period and thus the interval between observed pulses is very regular. For some pulsars, the regularity of pulsation is as precise as an atomic clock. (source: wiki) |
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