An Architect Reviews the Starlifter - Star Citizen

It's called Starlifter for a reason: the actual star in the rear of the upper deck XD

As a retired Army guy I can tell you our large cargo aircraft like the C-5 Galaxy are set up exactly like this. Huge cargo down below and backward facing airline seating upstairs. Grunts do not get beds, you sleep in your seat regardless of long flight times. And you will stow your gear somewhere; no reason to sleep with it on during a 12 hour flight. An hour or so before landing everyone will gear up; pee and head down to cargo. RORO (roll on roll off) is the term for the dual ramp cargo hauler type. Love your videos, the recording and sound quality sets the gold standard.

"In emergencies you can't expect people to be able to go through a space single file..." I trust you've never been on board a submarine then.

Hello Morphologis, me again, I told you about the perspective of a serviceman on a vessel to give you insight on the hammerheads mess deck, for the m2 looking at this from the perspective of a Marine who has deployed on a naval craft, its about how it is in real life. Yes on naval vessels we have berthing space, but not on say an LCAC where its to get to shore. We have the seating area that is used for regular transport but when doing a combat landing they would be out with the vehicles standing ready to go. How they are sorted makes sense and follows what we do. Yes you could line the sides with seats, but it gets in the way of moving cargo and such around the tonks and such. Even the C5 Galaxy, which is a modern aircraft similar to this has an 80 person passenger bay above the cargo area. I say its designed very well and in perspective of how modern ship/aircraft of its size are made.

"They also double as a nice holding area for the Linus Sebastians of your group." xD I can't even xD

Star citizen is one of the only games which makes me feel like a kid again and being all "dammit I wish this was real life"

As a military veteran myself, I agree with your point on the Aux. Crew location and armory. For casual operations, it wouldn't really create a big issue, but for combat operations, as you stated, it would. However, I don't think this is really meant to literally be at the front lines, but more of a forward location with relative safety. This would be to cut down overall travel time for ground forces to reinforce or support a nearby area. I believe that too many people have thought of this as a dropship, when in reality it is a support vessel to expedite the supply chain. In modern day, we wouldn't try to land a C-17 or C-5 on the front line to being in tanks, Bradley's, or Strykers. Instead they would be brought close enough as to be readily available in a short amount of time.

A weird point about the "singularity" is that when you turn off the lights in the main room. The singularity also turns off with it. So it's not a sigularity at all it's in fact just a giant spotlight on eye level. This point is further clarified by the engine fusion cells some ships have that are also present on this ship. It's such a weird feature... Other than that the C2 might be one of the best ships we currently have. I love it.

so i would like to just let you know when you were talking about the cargo hold and the design of the tiedown points and the path for the nova tracks. i am currently a loadmaster on the C5m super galaxy which this ship is based on heavily and that cargo hold looks exactly how i would design a cargo hold. and the track path for the nova is what i initially thought was there version of shoring which is just pieces of wood we lay down on the cargo floor to help distribute the weight of the vehicle evenly across the floor but upon a closer look i think there intention for it is simply put it's a guide for the tank driver to keep the nova within the center of the compartment that way you don't make contact with the side of the ship and cause a lot of money in damages. but yeah i think the design they went with is absolutely gorgeous and i do plan on picking up the civilian variant so to speak myself as soon as i get paid that is but amazing video been looking forward to this one for awhile now.

The blinding light that you saw is the portal that lets us communicate with chris roberts.

The name of the "Habitation" deck tells you why it seems so cramped compared to the rest of the ship. Air is a consumable and even given perfect scrubbers and recycling, the less volume you have to keep breathable, the better. If the lower deck gets holed the crew can still breathe. That's also why the jumpseats for the Marines are in that volume instead of the cargo deck.

I knew staying up till 4 in the morning would pay off one of these days!

Lost it at "a nice holding cell for your Linus Sebastians" xD Great video!

Cinematography is top notch

"Holding area for the Linus Sebastians of your group" 😂😂😂

The c2 also has a weapon rack along with those suit lockers in the room that has escape pods! That's what sold me on the c2 vs the m2. (Then I learned about the pistol locker in the bridge.)

The Hercules' bridge is everything that the Starfarer's should have been.

I think those jump seat is used as a temporary staging area for the Tank crew/additional infantry. You generally don't want your hardware and human personel in the same space, when in a hot zone.

I consumed every bit of information on Discord and Reddit since the PTU introduced the Herc. After the ISC I didn't expect to enjoy another video about the ship. To my surprise, it was really worth watching! Thank you :)

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