[K - C10] A Spanner In The Works

[AC_]

Location: C10 - Marden

Tags: Civil, Building

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OoC: Not really sure this really counts for the Civil tag. If not, I'll happily remove it.

This build continues after my Challenge 2, Cat C build and occurs before my last weekly build (which was more than a month ago! Blimey, that time's flown by!)

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Following the malfunction with the GATE on AC's ship when leaving Guinevere, AC returned to his office, while his engine expert, Dave, made repairs and checked through the engine's data logs to find the cause of the malfunction.

Having finished his checks and repairs, Dave headed up to let AC know what he had found.

[Dave] You might want to see this. It's some data recorded on one of the monitoring cameras for the GATE.

[AC] Couldn't we have pulled it up on the computer digitally instead of coming all the up here with a data card?

[Dave] I wanted to make sure we had a seperate copy that can't be monitored virtually, just in case.

[AC] Okay, bring it over here and we'll take a look.

[Dave] Remember that spanner we found by the engine? It seems that's what caused the problem.

[Dave] It shorted out two of the power couplings. Fortunately, the automatic safety systems prevented any major problems and kept things working.

[AC] It sent us off course though. We jumped the right number of Gates, but went in the wrong direction. We were due on Terrial Minor, instead we're orbiting Marden.

So why did the spanner hit the power couplings in the first place? There wasn't a problem with the artificial gravity on board at the time was there?

[Dave] Not that I've been able to find out. I think that someone threw the spanner between the safety bars and got out of the engine room before we got down there.

[AC] Intentional damage then?

[Dave] Looks like it to me, but I don't know who. There aren't any cameras down there covering the right angle to see.

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OoC: I felt that an office would have been painted nice calming colours rather than sticking with the dark Kawashita colours, especially if the spaceship it was on wasn't neccessarily new when it entered the Kawashita fleet. I did try to keep it spacey with an attempt at spacey sliding doors of sorts and the inclusion of the holo screen behind AC. I was also going to build a section of corridor to go outside the sliding door that Dave's standing in front of, but didn't have time for this week.

An overall pic is in the spoiler tag below. Please note the image from the engine's monitoring camera is part of my Challenge 2 build with 3 parts added and should not be included in the judging.

Comments welcome (although I apologise for not commenting on other peoples builds very often if at all... Some great stuff is happening in AG and I've only just caught up with it all since a couple of months ago...).

Edited September 13, 2015 by AC_

[Vedauwoo]

Very nice...Love the wrench shot!

[AC_]

Just realised I forgot to add the [K-C10] bit to the topic title. Could someone add that for me please?

[Kai NRG]

Very nice file cabinets! I also really like the floor pattern - good work!

[AC_]

Very nice...Love the wrench shot!

Thanks. It took a bit of work to balance the wrench in place while I took the photo, but I quite like how it came out in the end.

Very nice file cabinets! I also really like the floor pattern - good work!

Thanks. I think I stole the design for the filing cabinets from someone else, but I can't remember who or where. Sure I've seen the design somewhere on Flickr before.

I think the colours turned out nicely in the end aswell. There were a few choices with this build dictated by what parts I had and could actually find.

And thanks to Bob or whoever fixed my title.

[Andromedas Gates]

The judges awarded you 4 points.

[LittleJohn]

Great build! The colors work nicely and I like the doors

[AC_]

Great build! The colors work nicely and I like the doors

Thanks