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

 

https://ca.geocities.com/kkoehn3/base3d.gif

Very very nice.... A cardboard suitcase and a crate of vodka for this fine work!

The queen is suitably impressed! That is going to be very useful information very soon, since I assume that we'll be hanging about the base a bit in the next few posts before the missions start in earnest.

The image isn't showing up now. If you would like, I'll be willing to host it on my website and you can paste the link so that it doesn't go down. If you're interested, e-mail the image to [email protected].

WOW. That is nice. Thanks.

Very very nice!

That should just about do for the fic I think!

Wow! That really is extremely impressive. I've only just seen the 3D image. Great work jellyfish!

One thing I've always wondered, are there different quarters for the men and women

or do they share the same fifty-bed rooms?

 

How is it in real militaries?

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

I think that it should be small 2-person rooms. The U.S. Army uses this for the regular units. Seeing as we have a small number of female soldiers, I think 8 person rooms would be very impractical.

Surely it's sixteen beds per room as it's 8 bunks

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.

You mean there might be some?? :dontgetit: (j/k)

 

I'm with Warlord on this one, I think. Tammy and Poison are going to be roommates, and the rest of you will have to sleep elsewhere.

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! )

So does that mean you're voting to have the smaller rooms? I kind of need to know, since I'm currently writing a scene in my quarters.

I'd say yes Tammy. Have them small but not tiny. Two people in each but it isn't just any old military operation this is XCom! They should be quite impressive compared to ordinary barracks. (Nothing silk or wooden though! )

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?

Sounds good. I'd say a nice pastel blue for the walls... I'm not sure about domed roof. The base was most likely built a long time ago as some kind of nuclear shelter following the cold war... I'd think they would still have flat roofs.

He said domed ceiling "light." Although, the barracks I was in had flat fluorescent lighting and plain white cinderblock walls.

Ah right

Lights can be dome shaped I would think... I'm guessing they'd have taken a little time to sort out the inside of the base as if it was ever used as a bomb shelter, people may have been stuck in there for days.

Well, we've got flat neon lights and plain white walls here, but I can understand the light blue walls if the base is underground... not much of an outside view

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...

As a morale/spirit thing people in our squadron (sort of like a fraternity... but not) paint the walls in our hallway. They're usually painted with scenes of the Academy or of Air Force planes or things to do with our squadron - in my case, wolves.

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?

We'll all get a chance to change the appearance of our quarters later on in the game (like apoc fic)

Like the avatar change Doc!