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Lifeboats / Life Pods / Escape Pods / Pods

Unlike lifeboats on a ship, spaceships are not subject to the forces of the sea, and so they simply eject the sleeping quarters as lifeboats, providing many benefits.

    These are:
  • no duplication of mass for quarters and lifeboats
  • full facilities in each lifeboat, most importantly a toilet
  • sleeping crew do not have to wake, dress and then get to a lifeboat
  • non-essential people can be sent to their quarters
  • crew members can take everything of theirs with them, providing a change of clothes
  • life boats are more ‘homely’ keeping moral up, which is directly linked to survival
  • crew often keep their own specialist equipment in their quarters, providing a survival advantage
  • every crew member knows where to go on an ‘abandon ship’ sounding. No one is confused.
  • General moral is improved on ship as due to lifeboat requirements, everyone gets their own bunk, even if the room is shared.

Lifeboats contain oxygen and hydrogen gas reserves that can be burnt to provide heat, light (direct from red flame) and electricity from an air-flow reciprocating engine and thermoelectric generators. A condenser (cold) plate also catches the water in the air and makes it available to drink. Life pods also carry HydrOx welding torches, with modifications to work as lights and flairs. Note that the outside of the pod contains an automatic carbon-arc (Klieg) light as well as extremely bright LEDs.

The quarters are designed as a flat square shape on two sides with a thin band around the middle that is about a 6th of the width of the square side. On ship, 6 quarters can stack next to each other making a dense square but ejected as lifeboats the same 6 can make the 6 sides of a cube, providing additional living space. In fact cuboids of any shape can be made to maximise lifeboat space, as long as there are no gaps in the design. Lifeboats can also directly dock side by side so if two cubes of 6 come together they can dock side by side as they are, or two sides can move to create a large open space, with the two spares either docking on the outside, or angled in the middle (not advised).

Lifeboats with broken seals have been made usable by being placed inside larger cubes so all survivors can keep their own quarters. The occupants survived the vacuum by being in their suits.

Each lifeboat has HydrOx thrusters allowing manoeuvring but no more than that. As each lifeboat contains a hive capable AI kept up-to-date by the EI called Ship, all ejected lifeboats automatically arrange themselves in the optimum layout with minimum expenditure of HydrOx as thrust.

The ships stores also get ejected as a lifeboat, allowing long term survival of the lifeboats.

    The stores in a lifeboat are:
  • Water
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
  • Electricity (as battery)
  • Dehydrated food
  • Cleaning chemicals
  • Flash Welding panels
  • HydrOx Torches and attachments.

The terms lifeboat or life-pod are interchangeable, but when the quarters make a unified ship, this is often referred to as ‘the lifeboat’, with the quarters referred to as pods.