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To: commander@x-com[REDACTED]

From: admin03@x-com[REDACTED]

Date: December 20, 1998

Subject: Base Proposal

 

Hi Boss! Looks like that contractor delivered his Christmas present on time. All the diagrams for your presentation are included. Good luck with the funding committee!

 

Jenny

 

Access Code WARLORD

 

LINK: Base Proposal Document

 

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Thanks everybody :)

 

I pictured both sets of barracks as being divided into several 8-bunk rooms, segregated, but a shared hallway to the bathrooms. Probably admin/research personnel will end up in separate rooms to the combat personnel - "birds of a feather" and all that. (Ross and Joey at the museum cafeteria comes to mind.)

 

Geocities doesn't like the multiple image hits, so at the risk of exposing my secret identity further, here's another, low-res link:

https://ca.photos.yahoo.com/kkoehn3 - Yahoo!PhotoAlbum - base3d.gif

 

Warlord should have a zip file of the images now, anyway.

JG

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In the U.S. Army, the barracks are more like really small efficiency apartments. Each room has 2 soldiers. There's enough room for two beds, two wall lockers, two desks, and one small table for a TV and such.

 

Having a big open barracks is ok when all soldiers are of the same gender. However, in X-Com, that's not the case. I seriously doubt that Tammy wants to share a bedroom with 7 or 15 strange men that she doesn't know.

 

Although, I can't think of very many of them that would mind. :):)

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Our barracks are generally the big open ones over here. The military is slowly weeding them out though so by the time I get there they should be more like your ones. (The only reason I'm taking the two extra years to make officer is because I get my own accomodation! )
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Yes, we're "Earth's finest soldiers", but we're also underground, so space is at more of a premium. Small but not tiny. 2 are comfortable. 4 people could manage a card game. But standing-room-only for 10.

 

Let's make it official: all barracks rooms start with two beds, two lockers, two desks, and a folding card table. All in gunmetal gray with a domed ceiling light and pastel (blue? or is it green? no-one knows) walls. Decoration to be added by the occupants.

 

Howabout the combat personnel preferring their rooms on the south side barracks, where the gym is?

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Hehe yeah, we could paint clouds on them if we get bored in the evenings. A small country farm on the skirting... Low wooden fences... Cows quietly grazing in pastures as green as green... Sectoids...

Oh yeah, where there's cows, gotta have sectoids :)

 

OK, fluorescent tube lighting everywhere (on the flat ceilings) because it's the military standard, and it's energy efficient. And it flickers eerily during energy draws and after explosions. But it's warm fluorescent strips in the rooms.

 

Not like we're obsessed with detail or anything...

Unless... say, are any of you millionaires or free-lance contractors? :)

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