Commander
Kimberly Dickerson struggled to get her chair and harness adjusted
properly. She was just over the minimum height
requirement at 63cm but had stubby legs and a stocky build which made it a
challenge to get the proper adjustments.
She had a special cushion that flattened out the seat so her feet could
get to the controls but it still took a lot of adjustments since the officer
she was relieving was over 2 meters tall and half her width. She wore her blonde hair quite short for
convenience since she didn’t like binding her hair or having it floating around
in zero G. Her hair and stocky stature
made her look considerably more butch than she really was, although it did come
in handy at times. Her position was
transport operations supervisor, directly between and a little behind the two
transport operations control stations, which were tilted 45 degrees to either
side to allow the 3 of them to get full view coverage around the front of the
station. The transport operations
supervisor station was usually oriented such that “up” is toward the axis of
the station, but the cluster could be oriented any way desired. The observation dome extended far enough
forward of the end plane of the station to give the cluster a full 180 degree
view around that plane and unobstructed view forward. At least two of the three positions could
observe docking operations all the way in to the docking bays at all times. The view was incredible but had a tendency to
give some people vertigo.
The forward
docking bays were arranged in a triangular pattern centered on the axis of the
station with Docking Bays 2, 3, and 4 at the vertices and Docking Bay 1 in the
center of the other 3. The transport
operations control room was centered between Bays 2 and 3, a scientific
observation deck between Bays 3 and 4, and the command operations center, also
known as the bridge, between Bays 2 and 4.
This pattern was duplicated at the aft of the station with Bays 5, 6, 7,
and 8 but with a smaller transport operations control room and two smaller
general purpose observation decks.
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