Titan CV EVA Prep Deck This is an on-going series. See Mars terraforming image links below. A core element of my future history project is the thesis that a culture which turned it's efforts to the long term effort required to terraform Mars would as a necessary correlative lay the groundwork for an extended solar-system wide industrial civilization. The key component is long-duration deep range spacecraft of sufficient capability to carry out protracted industrial engineering works. One of my goals in this series is to show something of what a crewman’s life might be like aboard just such a long-duration mission spacecraft. One of the obvious requirements might be the ability of a crewmen to function in several fields of competence. Crew would cycle between surface duty shifts and other mission support duties – systems which must function for years at a time beyond reach of outside assistance require constant up-keep and maintenance. Providing for serial EVA excursions into an environment as hostile as Titan’s demands constant attention to and up-keep of EVA gear. EVA gear needs to be cycled before re-use (filters changed, tanks re-charged, hoses and fittings sanitized, critical seals cleaned and tested). The scene depicts a crewman preparing to EVA with another crew assisting. A long-duration mission spacecraft is a large integrated mechanical system -- crew spaces are shoe-horned in where they can fit – or where design dictates necessity. One of my additional objectives in this series is to show what life aboard such a vessel might “look” like. The Titan CV is a 200 foot diameter sphere mounted on a short (65 ft high – excluding landing gears) cylindrical base – so the term “shoe-horned” is relative. While some spaces might be large the actual deck space would be quite limited, even in a vessel of this scale. View is down the central engineering core of the vehicle looking onto the upper of the lowermost two decks – the EVA Prep Deck. The lowermost deck provides access to the surface via one of two air-locked lifts – one for equipment and one for personnel. The central core provides access to all primary systems which run the length of the vehicle, and has an enclosed personnel elevator, and an open rail-guided equipment lift (the yellow beam construction on the left side of the image) which run the entire length of the spacecraft as well. The equipment lock is mounted inside the coupling system which mounts the CV to the interplanetary Orion transport stage – this permits easy transfer of materials and crew between the two. The EVA Prep Deck and Surface Access Deck (one level below the deck in view) are nestled in between the Gas Core Nuclear Light Bulb main engines and landing gear housings, and is located directly beneath a large toridal hydrogen tank (the outer shell of which forms the inward sloping wall and ceiling of the visible compartment). Commercial Resources: Figures are DAZ M3 and DAZ V4 exported into Bryce. Space Suit & helmet is the DAZ M3 Space Suit. Chair is Davo’s Modular Command Chair stripped down to the most basic configuration – textures tweaked by me. Tall cabinets and Table are Dystopia Office Pack 2 exported into Bryce, modified and rescaled. All other modeling is my own -- constructed and rendered in Bryce 6.3. As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.