I have lots of ideas and I try to write them out. I take inspiration from many sources. However I have a bit of a learning disability which affect me in a few ways. I have problems understanding somethings spatially, meaning In order to describe something I need to be looking at it in front of me, and you could describe something to me and without illustrations it wouldn't make any sense to me.
My Friend Katsu is the person who built that Starship at the top of the page as a model on his workbench. It is a beautifully detailed model with many features you can only see if you get right up on it. It is called the Hyperion, and is the one of the inspirations for this story.
I have been working on an idea for new technology which is somewhat based on current research I have read about over the years. It is the Microbes that are discussed on the Technology of Hyperion page. But they don't tell the whole story and it becomes somewhat difficult for me to write something because although I know what I am trying to say, without the visual I am having a hard time describing it.
So I am asking for someone who can draw what I am trying to describe. Anybody who offers their help will be credited fully. I am hoping after I can get a few of the most important details drawn up my spatial block will be removed so I can write more efficiently. Any artist who helps will have their own page linked to through their art and I will set up a page specifically for the artwork of this story.
What I am looking for currently.
The people in this story wear what is called an E-Suit which is like a space suit. Think of a Dry Suit.
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Take the zipper from the top of the right knee up the thigh to the right hip and across the torso to the left shoulder. opposite of what is shown in the photo which is left to right. Removable booties, various bulges around the waist and on the back for air, power, food, waste reclamation. It has a hood for a "Soft Helmet" with a segmented neck ring seal for a larger over helmet. Has some slight mechanization and strength augmentation, allowing the suit to be programmed to perform a task while the wearer is concentrating on something else or resting. E-suit is most common "Space" suit almost everyone has one. Suit is built around it's wearer by a combination of Microbe Assemblers on an off the rack basic suit. Basic suit will have the majority of the various plumbing and wiring connections built into it including the nutrient tank for the microbes. Basic suit is sold with dormant microbe setup. When someone purchases a new suit they "Inoculate" the suit and it's microbes with their own keyed microbes, which brings the dormant microbes out of dormancy and puts them to work. Meaning only that person can wear that suit as the microbes are keyed to a particular person unless they are dormant and unkeyed. E-Suit uses compression to maintain pressure on the body it is not a pressurized suit.
Skinsuit is worn under the E-Suit. Unpressurized uses compression to maintain pressure (Space Activity Suit, BioSuit) rated for zero atmosphere for 30 minutes also with a hooded "Soft Helmet" it has interface ports at the front and back of the hips and top of the chest near the armpits to interface with the E-Suit
Softhelmet is like a balaclava with a flexible attachment ring to be attached to a Skinsuit or an E-suit. Has a shell face plate that slides down and locks. The helmet by itself only holds 15 minutes of air unless it is hooked into a Skinsuit or an E-suit. A Soft Helmet can be work by anyone as long as they are wearing a neckseal.
This is a Gath Helmet. The soft helmet I have been thinking off is similar to a hoodie and is flexible but not too flexible with a soft visor that would come down to meet the neck seal then the whole helmet would harden up as an electrical charge is applied to it. And NO not something from Lost in Space Major West
Neck Seal, there are two types. a large neck seal which is one piece which fit over the entire head and down to the neck area. The large type must be worn with a suit, it will not work without one. A segmented neck seal is similar to a turtle neck shirt or sweater however it separates in front to be slipped around the neck then overlaps to seal. It can be work with a soft helmet or a hard helmet
Hard helmet is really just to protect the soft helmet worn underneath. Please excuse my rather bad drawings, I tried to make an approximation. Something of my sketch combined with the one tat are used professionally by commercial divers. The hard helmet also has many sensors built into it and projects a "HUD" inside it for the wearer to see what is going on in 360 degree vision. On the top there are cameras to the area over head can be seen, also on top of the helmet is a high gain horn antenna, a laser communicator and the flir camera
Armor is unique as people. there is a general basic suit that everyone modifies for themselves. There are three types.
Step in where the armor is entered from the rear. The back is opened and the person steps into it leans forward putting themselves into it then they activate it and it closes around them and they then leans back upright as the armor finishes closing up round them and their e-suit. The helmet is attached to the back of the armor and it closes down over their soft helmet and latches. The armor hard helmet does not turn or rotate. In my sketches you can see it has a "vision" block that goes all the way around the helmet and up on top of it to allow full 360 degree vision and overhead vision. All of that is projected on the inside of the hard helmet, not the soft helmet.
Slide in where the wearer actually slides into the armor from the side and the armor closes up around the wearers E-suit. Think hinged on one side.
Bib Armor like NASA's current EVA suit it is a 2 piece with Top and Bottom and a locking ring on the abdomen.
The "Pod" a portable life support module, every person who works in sapce has their own. I'm basing the design in my head on Paul Elkins Coroplast shelter and his rolling shelter
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The pod is 1 meter X 1 meter X 2.5 meters fully extended and locked into it's frame in a ship or station. Collapsed it is 1 X 1 X 1.75 meters. It has openings in one end and one side. It has full life support, water, air, waste, nutrient storage, communications beacon and entertainment/computer system as standard amenities plus power generator and power storage. Inside is somewhat cramped but the sleeping mat can be moved at one end to allow 1the occupant to sit comfortably, 2 can fit in the seating area but it is cramped. Seating area is also the toilet/bath area and can be sealed off from the other end of the pod to keep belongings from get wet. It is very rarely used as such both because it is cramped and it uses too much of the pods water supply, parts of which cannot be captured by the recycling system.
Station Jitney is also based on one of Paul Elkins designs A Jitney comes in two types. Pressurized or unpressurized. a Pressurized one in my head looks like Paul's trike, but designed for 2 people. The unpressurized looks like a recumbent bike for two, and it doesn't look safe.
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