Back To Basics: Observation Lounge / Briefing Room Development

Description

 “…they still can’t design a comfortable place to hold a meeting.”
– Kathryn Janeway

Area Creation / Development – BF Wiki article updates

The Operations Office challenges members to write a description of the following areas for their primary fiction commands.

On the BF Wiki under the article for your primary command, create or develop the section for your Observation Lounge/Briefing Room.  Entries will be judged on how much detail is included based on what someone would see (and possible hear) when they enter the room.  Including an image(s) will further assist with points.

The Observation Lounge or Briefing Room is where the senior staff will meet to discuss their current mission and orders. It usually includes a table and set of chairs for everyone to sit around to hold their conversations. It is also sometimes used to meet with visiting dignitaries and talk. Consider the following questions/areas when writing your description:

  • The table and chairs – what shape and length is the table, and how many chairs are there?
  • How is information shared (i.e. display panels, consoles, etc.)?
  • What knickknacks, pictures or ornaments are found in it?
  • How does one enter the room? Are there any windows? Which way do they face on the ship?
  • Any other exciting and noteworthy elements that a visitor would see?

Entries will be judged on how much detail is used to describe the room – making the reader really believe they understand where everything is and why. Each point will be judged out of a set number of points, and an extra ten points will be awarded for how detailed the description is.

Criteria

  • Following the BF Wiki guidelines, you should write each entry in the third person and the past tense.
  • Entries must be a valid link to the BF wiki article.
  • Your entry about the observation lounge/briefing room should be no more than five hundred words.
  • The table and chairs as well as consoles and display panels: 10 points
  • Other items (e.g. organments, pictures, etc.): 10 points
  • Physical arrangement (doors, windows, etc.): 10 points
  • Members can use images to assist with their entries: 10 points
  • How detailed is the overall description: 10 points
  • Total points: 50

Winners

Submissions

User ID Content Date Entry
Evelyn Sommers 2446

https://wiki.bravofleet.com/index.php/USS_North_Sea

ID: 2446

 2022-09-28 21:22:43
Andreus Kohl 2374

https://wiki.bravofleet.com/index.php?title=USS_Sarek

 2022-09-04 12:09:02
Sazra Kobahl 2545

https://wiki.bravofleet.com/index.php/USS_Jaxartes

 2022-08-30 22:04:23
Cynndle Oin'sun 2457

Text Below and link to USS Daradax Wiki: https://wiki.bravofleet.com/index.php/USS_Daradax

Observation Lounge - Located at the stern of the vessel on Deck 2 this large room acts as the social heart of the ship. Easily able to accommodate a large portion of a full crew of 20 the space also doubles as the conference room for the ship if and when it's needed. The first contains a large conference table with a built-in holographic display that faces a large display allowing for key information to be displayed directly in front of the crew as well as to enable direct video conferencing when needed. It is located to the left of the room when you enter and can site 10 people with ease. Beyond the table, near the stern of Daradax, there is the wall-to-wall viewport. On the left side of the viewport are a couple of large sofas at a 90° to each other, facing the viewport, between them is a medium-sized rectangular coffee table with a built-in holographic display allowing for images and games to be projected onto and above the table. Accompanying these, at the right side of the viewport are two large reclining chairs each with a small side table beside them. This is rounded off by 2 small round coffee tables each with four comfortable chairs. To the right of the door is a small semi-circle alcove with a curved sofa in it and a table offering a bit more privacy. This table is located beside the wall-mounted replicator so the crew doesn't have to go to the mess hall continually and is near a small dartboard. The room, like many smaller ships, is not overly-decorated. The carpet is a deep burgundy and the walls are grey. The tables all resemble stained oak but are synthetic and the chairs and sofas all have the same upholstery of a dark grey. The walls near the conference table have a series of shelves with scale replicas of the Daradax and other notable federation vessels and stations while the walls are adorned with several images of the ship. The notable items are several images of the crew and a bust of Xenophon. The first couple of images are of the crew from before the ship was mothballed, a new one for each new addition with a small plaque beside listed the crew and their time on the ship with one for the crew since 2400. The bust of Xenophon, Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 B.C.E., references the location of the River Daradax in Syria as it was only mentioned in his work.

 2022-08-30 14:14:02

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