This meeting room allows TNH personnel to discuss fleet matters even when in warp.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Location & Layout
- Capacities
- Access
Introduction:
The issue with quantum entanglement being only temporary and difficult to initiate has since been resolved after centuries of R+D. Quantum computing always worked like a charm, though, so today aboard TNH there are instantaneous communications, along with instant calculations to go along with them. This is the Ansible technology mentioned in the series of novels starting with Ender’s Game.
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Location & Layout:
Placed right between the Admirals’ Wing and the Bridge (two Bridges, more accurately), this facility is the size of an auditorium. If you’ve ever been in a university classroom meant for at least 100 students at a time, you’ve got the right idea. Three terraces of fold-down armchairs encircle (en-square, rather) the platform-based hologram-table (with 34 chairs per terrace (and that isn’t because this ship is meant for 34 Tauri; it’s just a coincidence), 6 chairs per short-side, 11 chairs per long-side, and nothing in the corners, ensuring everyone has clear line-of-sight to the table, as well as easy paths to exit if needed for their MOS‘s/job‘s daily and unexpected tasking).
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Capacities:
This room can seat roughly 100 (human-sized) crew-members. “Standing-room only” makes it possible to squeeze in one or two dozen more. Inisfreeans don’t mind having zero “personal space”, so even more of their kind can comfortable fit and observe in here.
The conference-table can display hundreds of separate signals/streams/feeds simultaneously. It is possible to see and hear from 200+ ship-commanders or others patched-in, all at once, without overwhelming the system. Anything more than that would mean their images/holograms would have to be too small, though; to fit that many “talking heads” over this table’s projection-surface would result in each of them being too small for most observers seated around the table to make out (recognize).
Teleconferencing does not strain TNH’s systems, so back-to-back teleconferences here are easy and normal.
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Access:
Use of this part of TNH is limited to its officers who are scheduled to share information with other UAP and/or allied-fleet ships that have the capability to teleconference this way. Sometimes there will only be an Intelligence officer or two in here. Other times, you may see the whole staff of the carrier’s Admiral and more.
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