TGW-786
Chapter: 26 Alien Encounter
Characters: ambassador Palas, capt asita, Capt Chardis, capt hrrn'tn, chief gabriall, chief hrrkn'sss, dragonflys, Lt. Alaric, major, skee'tr
Location: Catia's pride, rally point
The Gentle Wolf
A modern adventure webcomic
CDO,, there is that left side, right hand, panel for door again .. o.0 grrr
What, Mr Stanley? Did I fuck up and make the door backwards or something? I wanted to make sure right handers could open the door with their preferred hands. Did I get it backwards when I originally did the model? FYI, that is the configuration of the back door of my house. Did the contractors fuck up, too?
no no ,, your design is fine.. great even.. (not even PC’s )
no my pet peeve is in panel 6, right above Capt. Hrrn’tn ‘s head … for what ever reason , they put a ,, access panel for the right hand, on the left side.!!
Maybe it’s a security thing? Ensures that whoever opens it will have the free hand out of position to attack or defend when the door opens. Of course, unless they’re using a stolen handprint, by whatever means, they should be on the ship’s ok list anyway if the door opens. So, maybe not. Maybe it’s a test. The pattern on the panel doesn’t HAVE to match the expected hand, and an intruder would be misled to try a (fake) right hand when the left was really what was required. I dunno, I used to be better at apologetics.
you are right.. it is probably a “kewl artist thing” .. but.. every time my CDO sees it,, flies out the window..
Just a hunch here but I’d bet good money that whomever built the interior models PC is using didn’t think about the door placement vs the security pad and just duped the pads wherever he wanted them using the same textures. It’s a good bet the model builder has never been within 10 miles of military boot camp and doesn’t think about such things. Those folks are more like hollywierd and just make things that “look cool”. Kind of like the Millenium Falcon is supposed to be a freighter but has essentially NO cargo hold.
Real life example on the Comm Module door (white vs green/camo) (panels 1-4):
Was stationed at Ft Huachuca, AZ, with the 11th Sig Bde. We were on an FTX (Field Training Exercise) out in the “back 40”. 5T tractors w/ 54 ft trailers, full camo netting over EVERYTHING. The OpFor had their brand new (at the time) recon drones that were flying at ~5000-15000 (I think) feet above us for FTE (Field Training & Evaluation). We could hear the drones from time to time if we listened carefully.
Someone had two of the Igloo 5 gal orange cooler jugs WITH THE WHITE TOPS on a trailer tailgate, under the camo netting. Under. The. Camo. Netting. All good, right? Oh ye, of little eyesight.
The OpFor Evaluator told our CO afterwards that everything else looked good, except for the two white circles that he could “see” (via the drone cameras) even under the camo netting. Oops!
(Ahhhh……..fun times. there are still days that I miss “the life”. and in case you’re curious, I was commo 31E (at the time): set up, repair, teardown; radio, field phone, (small) switchboard; wire, wireless)
camo fails… still goes on today.. back in desert storm,. by military doctrine , we had to cover our ” positions of interest.” in camo.. European Woodland Green.. so from the air,, desert ,, desert ,, desert ,, bright green splotch…
and just recently… (2020) exercise in Alaska,. every one was using “Desert Camo.” in snow…. o.0
Way back a mate’s unit was placed between 2 german units on an exercise. When they put the camo nets up, the germans had these fancy metal rings for ‘sewing’ the stuff together. His unit used some nylon twine with the same radar properties as foilage (and the camo net also had these properties…). How do you think it was to be placed between two sets of something flashing brightly on radar? 😉
“Ah, we have these 2 units separated by some shrubbery. We just sneak through the bushes…”
No space to hide a single human = very limited space to hide smuggled goods or contraband. How CAN an honest rogue make a living?
🙂