Seeing as it is the most expensive and technologically advanced SpaceBase yet, it seems fitting that we take a tour of some of the latest gismos and gadgets available to its crew. In this installment, we’ll focus on the Communications Room.
The Comm Room is of a fairly simple design, featuring at its center the communications window. A top of the line Organic MicroCrystal Display augments the clear polyfiber window in order to render a WQSXGA (3200 x 2048) resolution image. Streaming video calls are piped in through a specially constructed satellite array orbiting the moon.
A conference with SpaceBase: Beta or SpaceBase: Omega is as simple as navigating the HC6 interface on the comm room control panel using gestures, touch, or voice. The latest HC6 OS has been specially designed by the software engineers at SUMO Inc. subsidiary InterTech. The GUI allows for dynamic manipulation of data, video streams, and lunch delivery orders.
Around the room are controls for a variety of SB:I’s systems. A pressure valve allows for emergency aquafication should computer AI subsystem fail-safes ironically fail to activate.
Door and security hatch controls respond to touch, voice, and motion using InterTech’s HC4 mobile OS. To leave or enter a room, simply walk up to the threshold to open the doors. Alternatively, you may touch the panel or simply say, “Computer, open door.” Door panels also hold up to 2000 hours of music purchased from the proprietary Inter-Tunes store.
Finally, each room of SB:I is equipped with a euxygen system sensor. Malxygen readings are taken once every four minutes and compared with the central scrubber system in the basement. Hazard indicators will sound if malxygen reaches unsafe levels.
More animation tests next week? Maybe!
-Mike
