This, in older ships, is where the anchor gets deployed and retracted.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Access
- Special Features
- Conceptual Images
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Introduction:
Like the terrestrial naval ships of old, TNH bolsters its ability to remain in a fixed stationary position with chain-linked, retractable anchors. Although TNH is capable of utilizing electromagnetic grapplers and gravity beams as fine as lasers, should these systems fail or prove unsuitable for any situation, TNH is able to fall back to its terrestrial-anchoring roots. In short, it can literally drop anchor and hover or float over any body of land or water.
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Access:
Usually only sailors in the Deck department get to come in here, and only when they are trained and assigned to operate this particular vessel’s two types of anchors; the physical/normal one, and the tractor-beam ones.
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Special Features:
Tractor-beams allow TNH to be its own tugboat.
So how would a ship “drop anchor” in Outer Space? It’s easier than it may seem at first; the ship just either:
- uses large-enough asteroids/derelicts to energy-anchor off of / to, or
- has its Navigation/Helm department use the least-moving stars or other coordinates/’landmarks’ (the Space-equivalent of landmarks; Space-marks)
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