ICV DropShips

* All Inisfreean dropships are now extremely luxurious, their focus being serving as ships which are hardened (armored) interplanetary pleasure palaces.

 

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Table of Content:

  1. Introduction
  2. Dimensions & Layout
  3. Vertical Layout & Primary Inventory Items
  4. Total Complement
  5. Appearance Modes
  6. Special Features
  7. Time to Construct
  8. History
  9. Designs (Images Begin)
  10. Exterior Concepts
  11. Overall Appearance like the Dragon-1
  12. Interior Concepts
  13. Comparisons/Decks
  14. Standard Deployment Formation of Its Transported Items

 

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Introduction:

Inisfreean DropShips are egg-shaped Spacecraft designed to carry entire armies to and from any battlefield, predominantly along short flights from Inisfreean WarShips or ColonyPods to planet-side locations.
This type of Inisfreean construct will be deployed whenever there is warfare on the state or lake (Great Lakes size) level.  They are capable of much longer ‘jumps’ (flights) for emergencies, though.

 

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Dimensions & Layout:

  • Diameter: 20pxl (as viewed in this website’s city maps) wide (at the lowest hangar level) = 1,320′ (20×66)
  • Height: 19pxl tall = 1,254′ (19×66)
  • Floorspace: 1,370,000 sqft. (for the widest levels)
  • Stories: ~70 (excluding the tallest levels used for the IC BMs) (1,254′-528′ = 726′ of vertical space for levels)
  • Upper Levels: ~20 (excluding the tallest levels used for the IC BMs, and the 120′-tall level for the landing gear) (assuming some levels are 2-3 stories; 20′-30′ for the WRs and MPHAs, etc.)
  • Total Floorspace: ~27,400,000 sqft. (1,370,000 x 20 levels)
  • Personnel: *750,000 IC MFs
  • Dispersion: ~1 IC MF per 36 sqft.; ~1 IC MF per 6’x6′ area (27,400,000 sqft. / 750,000 IC MFs) if evenly dispersed
  • Overall Layout: radial; 5 subdivisions/hangars per level, all arranged evenly around a central AIOW​

 

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Vertical Layout & Primary Inventory Items:

  • Top level: cockpit (5 IC MFs, each on ‘living thrones’ made of 3D Celtic-style ‘weaves’ of 10 IC MFs each; ~55 IC MFs total in these cockpits)
  • Higher section: FJs (8,000 IC MFs inside 4,000 IC FJs; 2 in each FJ)
  • High section: MPHAs (52,000 IC MFs inside 1,000 IC MPHAs; 52 in each MPHA)
  • Middle section: STs not assigned to a vehicle (1,953,125 IC MFs; 5 of our divisions; 25 of our brigades; 125 of our regiments; 625 of our battalions, etc.)
  • Low section: TKs (120,000 IC MFs inside 20,000 IC TKs; 6 in each TK)
  • Lower section: WRs (180,000 IC MFs inside 10,000 IC WRs; 18 in each WR)
  • Lowest hangars: BMs (965 IC MFs inside 5 IC BMs; 193 in each BMs)
  • Bottom section: landing gear, etc.

55 + 8,000 + 52,000 + 1,953,125 + 120,000 + 180,000 + 965 = 2,314,145 ICVs in each DS

 

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Total Complement: 2,314,145 troops; 625 battalions, 20,000 tanks (TKs), 10,000 APCs (WRs), 4,000 fighter-jets (FJs), 1,000 cargo aircraft (MPHAs), and 5 BattleMechs (BMs)

So each IC DS has almost as many personnel as the United States’ Army, Navy, and Air Force combined during 2012, or nearly 4 times the total number of U.S. Marines during that year. Thus, when an Inisfreean DropShip lands, it is like deploying the entire armed forces of a superpower nation (except that each of our individual members is more powerful than a Kryptonian, thus any of them could singlehandedly take out an entire human army/superpower).​

 

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Appearance Modes:

Like all ST and AP suits, Inisfreean DSs have the following appearance and cloaking options:

  • Basic / Nude (matte white)
  • Cloaked (transparent, showing Outer Space straight through it)
  • Masked (disguised as an asteroid or comet)
  • Nova (flashing with the brightness of a star in order to surprise, disorient, or even blind nearby enemies, or remaining as bright as a normal star)​​​

 

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Special Features:

* Tonnage & composition are classified.​​

Far more advanced than a human dropship, Inisfreean dropships incorporate cloaking, teleportation, fly-by-mind interfaces, quantum filter wall-hatches, smart-skin, and even warp-surfing. Due to the small size of Inisfreeans, as well as how brilliantly they pack themselves and their gear and vehicles, Inisfreean Spacecraft can carry many whole-number multiples the maximum capacities of most Outlander vessels of comparable classes, dimensions, and natures.

* All Inisfreean Spaceships at and above the DropShip size have the following luxury features in them:

  • anchored plant pots and landscaping with containment ‘energy-hoops’ (similar concept to a hoop-house crop-row covering, but invisible and only active during rapid maneuvers)
  • anchored red carpets
  • banners (long, hanging, with the Inisfree sigil centered on them)
  • fluted columns framing hatches (doors)
  • framed paintings (digital) and hologram projectors
  • furs (artificial)
  • marble fountains
  • jacuzzis
  • sconces
  • throws (bed decorations)
  • velvet ropes (such as are seen in VIP drop-off walk-ways and related areas)
  • waterfalls

 

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Time to Construct:

It takes ~3 weeks to 3D-print one of these ships.  On the Inisfreean 13-month calendar, that’s 21 days.  That means that every day… another ~4.7% of an Inisfreean DropShip gets completed.

  1. ~3.5 days; days 1 through 4:  “bones”; frame/skeleton
  2. ~3.5 days; days 4 through 7:  “tendons”; secondary conduits/pipes, etc. (as the frame/skeleton is based on the Grid Mind mesh/tentacles; the frame of every Inisfreean vessel/construct doubles as its plumbing and electrical wiring)
  3. ~3.5 days; days 8 through 11:  “muscles”; hatches, VTOL shafts, etc.
  4. ~3.5 days; days 11 through 14:  “organs”; repulsines, Vril reactor/batteries, etc.
  5. ~3.5 days; days 14 through 17:  vehicles/craft; its aerospacecraft, land vehicles, etc. (except for its BMs, as each of them also takes a few weeks (closer to 2 weeks) to 3D-print; they are started sooner)
  6. ~3.5 days; days 17 through 21:  personnel; Inisfreeans (ICVs) stationed in its stasis tubes

 

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History:

The first Inisfreean DropShips were completed in July of 2011; they were inside the first Inisfreean ColonyPods ever made.

 

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Designs:

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Exterior Concepts:

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Overall Appearance like the Dragon-1:

Just not as small or tall; our DSs are not taller than they are wide.

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Interior Concepts:

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Comparisons / Decks:

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Standard Deployment Formation of Its Transported Items:

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