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Policy Discussion - Standarized Ship Submission Policy Changes - Part 1 - 06-8-23

Posted May 25, 2023, 7:17 p.m. by Vice Admiral Robert Archer (Engineering Director) (Robert Archer)

Good evening everyone! Today we are going to begin our efforts to piece by piece collect thoughts, suggestions, and changes to the ship submission policy document. Also known as SSSF. For this first part we will be mainly focusing on ideas to make the template used for ship submissions easier for new comers related for now only the beginning class details, and the structure/construction and historical/mission overview sections. While I already got some ideas for how to streamline and make things less confusing from collecting such over the years from talking to people in preparation for this effort. I want to give everyone also free reign to contribute ideas in addition to these. Also for things like ‘ship class and types etc’ changes those will not be a focus of this discussion but a later one focusing on amending/replacing the Milwaukie plan. For anyone also wondering, any current or past ship designs not conforming to the future changes from this will be grandfathered in, so no needs to worry over that. The current listed wording comes from the current SSSF page in the EDept, the comments made here are from the early 2ks so obviously could use some updating to be easier to understand and could contain better details for new designers compared to now vs back then.

Discussion for these first two sections are open until June 6th 2023.


The Standardized Ship Specification Format

FUBAR-CLASS
CATEGORY: DESTROYER
VARIANT: MEDIUM
DESIGNER: Arthur Wendle Funnyname, Bob Dole, Hugh Grant
Mark I [Revision of an approved spec is Mark II, next is Mark III, etc.]
Draft 1 [Increments with each posting of this Mark version.]
DATE: 19 February 2000
REFERENCED URLs: [Links to images for this spec.]

HISTORY AND MISSION OVERVIEW
This section covers the IC background and history of the project. It serves mostly for the designer’s ego, but also includes the ship’s mission profile, purpose, and so on. The question “So why do we need this ship anyway?” should be answered in this section. A bulleted list of mission profiles is recommended. (Some designs currently have this already.)

STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

This section should create an accurate, detailed picture of the ship in the reader’s mind. From this section the reader should be able to close his eyes and visualize the ship almost exactly the same way as the designer. External view images of the design should be included in this section, if present, and are encouraged. URLs from above can be listed here for clarity. In the final normalized copies, they will be linked from here using thumbnails.

Also included in this section is a discussion of the spacecraft construction. Hull type, armor (if applicable), hull materials, and back-story discussion (literary embellishment on the part of the designer, always encouraged) are included here. If the ship is capable of separating into multiple sections (saucer separation, the Columbus’ Sffina Kitana, etc.), a description of same would be included here. If the ship is capable of landing on a planetary surface and taking off again, it must be stated here. If not stated, it is assumed that it cannot.

Additionally, if the ship supports swappable mission modules, that fact must be stated here. The location of the modules, whether they require dry-docking the vessel or if modules can be swapped at your local corner starbase, and a list of usable modules must be included. The list should include any and all modules that a crew may use for that design, and should be assumed to be exhaustive. (GMs are given more flexibility with regards to the list, but a list must still be provided.)


Given the passionate nature some folks can get regarding topics like this please lets keep anything said civil and on track to focus for this discussion. If anyone has questions or the like please email me or pm me in Discord.

Robert Archer EDir


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