These are the main means of transporting people, gear, and small vehicles (such as fighter-jets, person motorcycles, etc.), vertically in this carrier.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Numbers
- Locations
- Conceptual Images
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Introduction:
‘Lifts’, also commonly called ‘elevators’, are the main vertical freight movers for this Spaceship. Portal (teleporting; worm-holes) technology is not yet available to most Outlanders, so manual and mechanical linear modes of transportation are still being perfected, and these service lifts are a premier example of them. The lifts of The New Horizon are large and powerful enough to move jets and tanks dozens of floors up or down in a matter of seconds, and include their own local inertial dampeners. Due to the incorporation of Repulsine technology, service lifts generally have no maximum weight parameter (though, of course, you can’t reasonably expect them to lift a chunk of matter from a neutron-star).
* Mag-lev (magnetic levitation) bullet-trains are their horizontal / lateral counterparts, moving items as large as jets and tanks sideways throughout the various levels of this Spacecraft-carrier at equally impressive speeds.
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Numbers:
There are hundreds of lifts in this ship.
Most are made just for people; human-sized passengers plus their personal gear/items/luggage, and maybe 1 gurney or 2 at a time.
Dozens are the heavier-duty ones designed to easily move fighter-jets and dropship-parts up and down; those are the lifts always inside this carrier’s larger hangars.
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Locations:
Every floor has lifts located along at least one of the corners of every hallways-intersection/nexus.
There are also lifts inside all but the tiniest of hangars; large, intermediate, and small hangars all have lifts connecting their balconies and landing-pads (with single-craft hangars not having lifts inside them, but still 1 lift to each of them, each single-craft hangar’s floor doubling as the platform of that lift).
One only has to walk a football-field’s depth (“length”), at most, often, to find one of these devices/features.
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