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Tumblr doesn't want to make the link fancy, but my Normandy plans are now up on AO3!

(Thanks to @virusq for the name, @swaps55 for the high-res screenshots of the game maps, and everyone who contributed to the discussion — I captured a lot of you in chapter notes, but I'm still looking at comments, too)

Updated images

The AO3 versions have some refinements and are higher resolution. In particular, all the elevation drawings now show changes in floor and ceiling height and give an idea of wall positions.

Future updates and changes

I'm going to add my galaxy map to the same work. I'll also likely keep making tweaks to the ship and ship images.

Currently the images in the overview chapter use outlines overlaid on the hull, and I only use the full color renderings for individual decks. I'm not sure if the clearer view of the hull is adding enough, or if the better rendering would be better:

I could also do cropped versions of the elevations, which don't show off the sexy sexy spaceship well but do show off the parts I'm working on. I really don't want to redo all those exports though, so for right now right click -> open image in new tab is your friend! They're high enough res that you can zoom in. (AO3 strips target="_blank" out of link tags, or I'd have done that for you).

Look how messy it is with all the layers on!

Great news on the SR2 design: I've got the decks fitting INSIDE the hull!

They'll still never be as long as the ship looks from the outside, but with a lot of tweaking the hangar lines up with the hangar door (seen on the belly view), window height is approximately correct for the position of the crew deck and CIC, and the hull whole thing comes in at ~200 meters for the hull alone, ~216 including thrusters and pointy-out bits on the nose.

I still need to post the map to AO3 — I'm thinking of sticking all these ultra-nerdy lore things in a single work with different chapters (galaxy map, five or six chapters for the Normandy redesign).

But.

I have to call it something.