Yes, the tall Astrogator-apprentice was there, outlined against. Full text of 'Creative Computing Magazine (October 1979) Volume 05 Number 10' See other formats. Plotter (device) -- besayek Plural (n.) -- wehu Plus -- eh, heh. Program -- tumau, tumaya; tumak (computer) Programmed, to be -- putumau Project (n.) -- ar'tu (anc.). Astrogator BB Astrolo Astrologer Symbols Astrology Pi astroluxtype Astromonkey. Burst My Bubble Pro Bus Bush!! Bushing Bushwhacked NF Bushwick Happy Hour Bushwick JNL. As Britain Votes As Britain Votes. There is among astrogator crony yep coralline. An Iczelion (scan)- Nadie (proof/layout) coproduction“Fly boy, we’re ahead of you!” Rip contributed, already at the door panel. But, though Rip and Dane went over it literally by inches, they found nothing unusual—in fact nothing from Sargol except a small twig of the red wood which lay on the steward’s worktable where he had been fashioning something to incorporate in one of his miniature fairy landscapes, to be imprisoned for all time in a plasta- bubble. Dane turned this around in his fingers. Because it was the only link with the perfumed planet he couldn’t help but feel that it had some importance. But Kosti had not shown any interest in the wood. And he, himself, and Weeks had handled it freely before they had tasted Groft’s friendship cup and had no ill effects—so it couldn’t be the wood. Dane put the twig back on the work table and snapped the protecting cover over the delicate tools—never realizing until days later how very close he had been in that moment to the solution of their problem. After two hours of shifting every one of the steward’s belongings, of crawling on hands and knees about the deck and climbing to inspect perfectly bare walls, they had found exactly nothing. Rip sat down on the end of the denuded bunk.“There’s the hydro—Frank spent a lot of time in there—and the storeroom,” he told the places off on his fingers. They could search the storeroom, the galley and the mess cabin—but to interfere with the hydro would endanger their air supply. It was for that very reason that they now looked at each other in startled surmise.“The perfect place to plant something!” Dane spoke first.
Rip’s teeth caught his underlip. The hydro—something planted there could not be routed out unless they made a landing on a port field and had the whole section stripped.“Devilish—” Rip’s mobile lips drew tight. No one but the Queen’s own crew had been on board the ship during their entire stay on Sargol, except for the young Salarik. Could that cub have brought something? But he and Mura had been with the youngster every minute that he had been in the hydro. To the best of Dane’s memory the cub had touched nothing and had been there only for a few moments. That had been before the feast also—Rip got to his feet. If we try it—”“What about an Emergency station?”Rip stood very still, his big hands locked about the buckle of his arms belt. Then, without another word, he went out of the cabin and at a pounding pace up the ladder, bound for the Captain’s cabin and the records Jellico kept there. It was such a slim chance—but it was better than none at all. Dane shouldered into the small space in his wake, to find Rip making a selection from the astrogation tapes. There were E- Stats among the asteroids—points prospectors or small traders in sudden difficulties might contact for supplies or repairs. The big Companies maintained their own—the Patrol had several for independents.“No Patrol one—”Rip managed a smile. He was feeding a tape into the reader on the Captain’s desk. In the cage over his head the blue Hoobat squatted watching him intently—for the first time since Dane could remember showing no sign of resentment by weird screams or wild spitting.“Patrol E- Stat A- 5. Rip hit a key and the wire clicked to the next entry. They did not dare set the Queen down at any Patrol Station. But a Company one which would be manned by only two or three men and not expecting any but their own people—and I- S owed them help now!“There may be trouble,” he said, not that he would have any regrets if there was. If the Eysies were responsible for the present plight of the Queen he would welcome trouble, the kind which would plant his fists on some sneering Eysie face.“We’ll see about that when we come to it,” Rip went on to the control cabin with his figures. Carefully he punched the combination on the plotter and watched it be compared with the course Jellico had set before his collapse.“Good enough,” he commented as the result flashed on. But you know what they do to pirates?” inquired the Engineer- apprentice. Space law came into Dane’s field, he needed no prompting. The Companies’ are private property.”“But,” Dane pointed out triumphantly, “the law doesn’t say so—there is nothing about any difference between Company and Patrol E- Stat in the law—”“He’s right,” Rip agreed. Companies put them in later to save tax—remember? Legally we’re all right.”“Unless the agents on duty raise a howl,” Ali amended. I’m not sounding any warn- off on this, but I just want you to be prepared to find a cruiser riding our fins and giving us the hot flash as bandits. If you want to spoil the Eysies, I’m all for it. Got a stat of theirs pinpointed?”Rip pointed to the figures on the computer. We can set down in about five hours’ ship time. How long will it take to strip the hydro and re- install?”“How can I tell?” Ali sounded irritable. Depends upon how fast we can move. No telling until we make a start.”He started for the corridor and then added over his shoulder: “You’ll have to answer a com challenge—thought about that?”“Why?” Rip asked. They won’t be expecting trouble and we will—we’ll have the advantage.”But Ali was not to be shaken out of his usual dim view of the future. And they get off one little squeak to the Patrol. Well, a short life but an interesting one. And we’ll make all the Video channels for sure when we go out with rockets blasting. Nothing like having a little excitement to break the dull routine of a voyage.”“We aren’t going to, are we—” Dane protested, “land armed, I mean?”Ali stared at him and Rip, to Dane’s surprise, did not immediately repudiate that thought.“Sleep rods, certainly,” the Astrogator- apprentice said after a pause. And you can’t re- set a hydro in a few minutes, not when we have to keep oxy on for the others. If we were able to turn that off and work in suits it’d be a quicker job—we could dump before we set down and then pile it in at once. But this way it’s going to be piece work. And it all depends oh the agents at the Stat whether we have trouble or not.”“We had better break out the suits now,” Ali added to Rip’s estimate of the situation. It would depend upon who manned the E- Stat and how fast the Free Traders could move once the Queen touched her fins to earth.“Knock out their coms,” that was Ali continuing to plan. For the first time in hours he seemed to have returned to his visual placid self. Nothing is so wildly improbable that you can’t make use of it sometime during a checkered career.”He glanced over the board before he brought his hand down on a single key set a distance apart from the other controls. Rip had turned on the distress signal at the Queen’s nose. When she set down on the Stat field she would be flaming a banner of trouble. Next to the wan dead lights, set only when a ship had no hope of ever reaching port at all, that signal was one every spacer dreaded having to flash. But it was not the dead lights—not yet for the Queen. Working together they brought out the space suits and readied them at the hatch. Then Weeks and Dane took up the task of tending their unconscious charges while Rip and Ali prepared for landing. There was no change in the sleepers. And in Jellico’s cabin even Queex appeared to be influenced by the plight of its master, for instead of greeting Dane with its normal aspect of rage, the Hoobat stayed quiescent on the floor of its cage, its top claws hooked about two of the wires, its protruding eyes staring out into the room with what seemed closed to a malignant intelligence. It did not even spit as Dane passed under its abode to pour thin soup into his patient. As for Sinbad, the cat had retreated to Dane’s cabin and steadily refused to leave the quarters he had chosen, resisting with tooth and claw the one time Dane had tried to take him back to Van Rycke’s office and his own hammock there. Afterwards the Cargo- apprentice did not try to evict him—there was comfort in seeing that plump gray body curled on the bunk he had little chance to use. His nursing duties performed for the moment, Dane ventured into the hydro. He was practiced in tending this vital heart of the ship’s air supply. But outfitting a hydro was something else again. In his cadet years he had aided in such a program at least twice as a matter of learning the basic training of the Service. But then they had had unlimited supplies to draw on and the action had taken place under no more pressure than that exerted by the instructors. Now it was going to be a far more tricky job—He went slowly down the aisle between the banks of green things. Plants from all over the Galaxy, grown for their contribution to the air renewal—as well as side products such as fresh fruit and vegetables—were banked there. The sweet odor of their verdant life was strong. But how could any of the four now on duty tell what was rightfully there and what might have been brought in? And could they be sure anything had been introduced? Dane stood there, his eyes searching those lines of greens—such a mixture of greens, from the familiar shade of Terra’s fields to greens tinged with shades first bestowed by other suns on other worlds—looking for one which was alien enough to be noticeable. Only Mura, who knew this garden as he knew his own cabin, could have differentiated between them. They would just dump everything and trust to luck—He was suddenly aware of a slight movement in the banks—a shivering of stem, quiver of leaf. The mere act of his passing had set some sensitive plant to register his presence. A lacy, fern- like thing was contracting its fronds into balls. He should not stay—disturbing the peace of the hydro. But it made little difference now—within a matter of hours all this luxuriance would be thrust out to die and they would have to depend upon canned oxy and algae tanks. Too bad—the hydro represented much time and labor on Mura’s part, and Tau had medical plants growing there he had been observing for a long time. Atlantean Star Palace - Maveric Universe Wiki. Atlantean Star Palace. The Star Palace is the spaceship designed by Sarkhon Starcraft,to explore time and space ,in comfort. Bold in concept and brilliant in execution, this most delicate yet most colossal of instruments makes possible travel to other worlds beyond the Atlantean solar system. The Original Prototype and several versions from Mark 1 from 1. Professor Bernard Sarkhon’s Sarkhon Starship Design Group. Later,updates and further designs were created by his Professor Bernard Sarkhon’s, Professor Bernard Sarkhon,the Third, Professor Bernard Sarkhon the Fouth and Professor Bernard Sarkhon the Fifth. Later on Count Harland Sarkhon,William Wallace Sarkhon,Patrick Eliot Sarkhon,Thomas Eliot Sarkhon,Patrick David Sarkhon,Calvin Eliot Sarkhon,Syvestor David Sarkhon,Christopher Eliot Sarkhon,David Eliot Sarkhon,Mathrew William Sarkhon made improvements to further designs Mark 1. Mark 4. 0. Bold in concept and brilliant in execution, this most delicate yet most colossal of instruments makes possible travel to other worlds beyond the Atlantean solar system. Upon upper deck structure or palace housing ,can be found the main Command Bridge,the Engineering Tower,main command crews quarters,the astro station and stellar cartagraphic blisters and Warp Navigation Fins and Rudders. The lower deck contains the great atomic motors that power the ship, as well as the galley, laboratory, and crew quarters. The robot's stowage area is located at the center of the lower deck. On Starfleet ships, it was generally located near the top and front of a vessel. From here, the commanding officers supervised all ship's operations, ranging from vessel course control to tactical systems. These computer banks contained the Central Bridge Command Stations,linked other various Computer Termainal about the vessel. Several square shaped monitors were suspended from an upper Magnus 4. Computer Data Bank Ring. The monitors,normally hung upwards,can be pulled down toward the Astrogation Station,for easy access. Indeed, there was a large area immediately adjacent to an larger than the console area itself, which had several comfortable chairs, lamps, an ottoman — all of which conspired to give this control room a cosy living room. It was one of the many reasons Professor Bernard Sarkhon choose to call his Phototype Flying saucer shaped starship a Star Palace,in that was furnished with much of the elligance of an Atlantean Palace. The Doctor could flip a switch on his console and reveal astronomical phenomena on a grand scale. Soon after taking Amy Pond on board for the first time, the new AN ATLANTEAN STAR PALACE console also provided the Doctor with a new sonic screwdriver, as the previous one had been destroyed. A larger, circular, secondary view screen was set into one of the walls. This version also possessed an actual phone, on which people could call the Doctor. Seemingly smaller, his new control room contained a console with more literal input devices and instrumentation. He also changed the lighting of the time rotor and room from its original aqua to orange, creating an ambient glow that added warmth to the room. Overall, he gave the once empty and stark control room a homelike sense of decor, provision, and sophistication. Several tiny lights went around the walls of the room in a straight line, flashing sections at a time. The console featured two screens, and what seemed to be a radar on one face. There were two additional consoles around the edge of the main level. It was also much darker than the previous iteration. Except for the time rotor, all lights could be turned off when the Doctor was not inside. The Eleventh Doctor assembled his new attire from the clothes held in this compartment. One of the compartments under the console contained a ladder leading to a lower part of the AN ATLANTEAN STAR PALACE whilst one of the roundels on the lower section of the wall opened to reveal a passageway that led to the engine room at the centre of the TARDIS. The monitor in this version opened in a similar fashion to an eye; it rested between the exit and the door leading further in. In comparison to the control rooms that his earlier incarnations used, the Fifth Doctor's was more metalic grey than white. At some point the Seventh Doctor began to use a control room that resembled a comfortable Victorian parlour. This design was inherited by the Eighth Doctor. Its comparatively vast interior was significantly larger than any that had come before or after. In this version, the console itself was not the central foci of the room, but merely one of its many features. A vast bureau almost entirely covered one wall, its huge drawers filled with various objects the Doctor wished to retain. Clocks of all description — but mostly mechanical ones — littered various nooks an crannies. Far from the evenly lit, mostly white interior of the past, this control room had multiple light sources and an abundance of wooden surfaces, which allowed the Doctor to create a sense of warmth and even opulent comfort. At least a portion of the Doctor's books were in another alcove, forming a sort of en suite library. SECOND CONTROL ROOM edit. The Doctor and Sarah escape the Mandragora Helix - Doctor Who - BBC0. The Fourth Doctor and Sarah in the second control room. It was simpler and more compact than the main control room, with the console resembling a desk, no visible time rotor and all the controls hidden behind what appeared to be wooden panelling. It had more subtle roundels, some of them framing stained glass windows. For a brief period, the Fourth Doctor used this as the main control room. The Astro Station was a small shuttlecraft used by the Micronauts when the Endeavor was being repaired. It was launched from a hangar bay found on board the Endeavor. The Micronauts used it in issues #4- 6 when the Endeavor was being fixed after fighting off a Battle Cruiser. Bug, Acroyear, Cilicia, and Microtron also used it in issue #2. Micronauts. Finally, when the Endeavor was destroyed in issue #3. Micronauts used the Astro Station to fly around Earth. Soon after, the Astro Station itself was destroyed. The bridge was the nerve- center of every starship, and it was manned by the top officers of each department except for Engineering and Medical. There was typically an egineering station that the Chief Engineer could use when on the bridge, as well as science stations that the science officer or chief medical officer could use. Directly in front of this was usually the helm console, from where navigation and vessel course control were carried out. Some bridges feature an operations console alongside the helm station, from where the officer on duty had access to internal systems control, communications, sensors, resource scheduling and hardware and system usage. Internal security along with weapons control could be found at the Security station. Most bridges on Starfleet vessels were replaceable modules, so that adaptation for special missions or upgrading was expedited. In place of a central column, it had a rotating pair of metallic rings. The console also had interfacing controls in addition to buttons and switches. It used a holographic scanner which popped up from the main console. The walls of the console room looked like dark marble, with large, opaque roundels. AN ATLANTEAN STAR PALACE had a functional chameleon circuit, directional unit and an automatic drift control. Its control console was also set on a dais, as opposed to being at floor level. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 0. 2 TARDIS. The Type 0. 3 TARDIS. The Type 0. 1 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 TARDIS. The Type 1. 02 AN ATLANTEAN STAR PALACE was the first sentient TARDIS. It was created when the Doctor attached a remote receiver to his companion Compassion, who later evolved into a AN ATLANTEAN STAR PALACE after the receiver warped her biodata. The command chairs were located in the center of the bridge, to maximize interaction with all key bridge personnel, while permitting an unobstructed view of the main viewscreen. Using keyboard or vocal commands, the captain could use these controls to override the basic operation of the starship.
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