There are no doors, but no worries--they are programmed to receive--the sheath-like walls flow out of the way and form guide-rails, ramps, or whatever else might prove useful, including arched awnings if the local conditions are a bit rainy. The hull of each Capsule is capable of becoming opaque or transparent on demand, and it can filter light, data or impressions along all standard parameters to best ensure privacy or discretion when such is desired.
The main compartment is a flat, dull-white dais with an extruded disk at the center. The Capsule intuitively anticipates the desired destination of anyone who enters this compartment, but it requires direct authorization to begin moving. Language is unnecessary, intention is all that is required. The Capsule will do the rest.
The secondary section of the Capsule is a hollow bubble of diamond-derived polycarbon polymer that can expand and/or contract as required to handle all types and sorts of cargoes.
Capsules are spawned within the Penumbral Sub-Lattice and quickly mature into stately barge-sized vessels over the course of their centuries of service. At any given time there are an estimated 43 million Capsules active and in-transit through-out a particular Worldboat.
Great imagery. The spawning is a fun surprise, and that reading of intention could be a fun thing to work with...
ReplyDelete@Porky: The Worldboat aesthetic seems to opt for an almost biological elegance reminiscent of coral re-designed by people who wanted things to last indefinitely, with room for it to grow, evolve and develop into different, alternate forms over time.
ReplyDeleteStaying with the core premise and spark that inspired this project, everything comes from out of dreams and it is written using the same Surrealist Method that I use for Riskail. Only I try to keep these entries a bit more limited in scope, while in the past I have had a tendency to let Riskail run free and see where all it lead. I like the results of this revised approach and will try it out for Riskail shortly.