On 1 Apr 2018 at 22:53, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:

> On 4/1/2018 9:36 PM, James Davies wrote:
>    Great pic, thanks for sharing!
>
>    Modern warships devote space to galleys, kitchens, food storage
>    etc. the crew don't eat MREs or frozen dinners routinely. When
>    you're away from home for months at a time poor food is one of
>    those things that can break you.
>
> Modern warships have the space to do this.  Traveller ships do not. 
> For the mess hall you will need about .5dton+ per person seated and
> probably about about 1dton per 10 people served at a time. 
> Minimum.  And that doesn't count the stores.  You just can't pull
> that amount of volume out of the stateroom allowance and still have a
> viable ship with passages, staterooms, or any sort of privacy.

There's likely your problem. Crew don't get staterooms. They get
bunks. And not a lot of privacy. Officers get shared "staterooms" 2-4
per room.

The Captain and the exec get individual staterooms (and possibly some
additional space) because they need it for private meetings and the
like.
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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com

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I think that the place to look is the modern SSBN (Boomer).

Those things spend more time totally isolated (only incoming msgs) underwater than an average OTU starship takes to travel from port-to-port.

They have galleys, cooks, mess halls, etc, etc...

p.s. And they originally did it with much, much smaller subs than the ones in service today. The 1st ones were originally modified SSN's (attack subs) w/ a midship section attached to accommodate the ballistic missile tubes.

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