*Spacecraft Description*


Q:  I wanted to know if you would take a few moments and just diagram a
little bit one of the mother ships, and what the different sections are
for.  And I know that each one might even be different...

B:  Yes.

Q:  ...but if you could pick one.

B:  Well, we will use the same one we have used before, that in your
terminology would translate out into the name of the /Solar Wind./

Q:  Okay.

B:  It is approximately one of your miles in length, almost - just about.
And the idea is it will be a cylinder in form, generally speaking, and will
have many decks within it.  But those decks are also, in your terms,
cylindrical - a cylinder within a cylinder within a cylinder, and so on.
For approximately what you would call thirty cylinders within.

What this will be is that you can then circumnavigate the entire cylinder
on any level, all the way around.  And then decks are apportioned
accordingly to different sections.  There are approximately three main
engines that bridge all decks: one in the center and two near either end.
These are also cylinder, or disk-shaped in fashion, and are cavernous,
bridging all decks.  What you would call a sixty-deck cross section.

The idea, therefore, being that there are thirty cylinders, which means you
have, from the outer skin down to the center core, thirty decks.  And then,
of course, a repeat of the thirty decks from the center core out to the
other side.  The center is where all the engines are connected.  And in the
very center there will be, what you would call, a non-inhabitable space,
all the way through the central core of the ship, that will be the drive
mechanism, in colloquial terms.

At either end, in also a cylindrical fashion, is what you would call,
colloquially, your bridge, at either end.  In the very outer shell will be
the hangar bay for various scout craft that come and go.  There will be the
idea, once again, also of manufacturing on many of these scout craft in
that outer hull.  The idea also will contain, in the outer hull, many
different forms of environment to accommodate many different life forms
from many different civilizations.

Q:  Why just the outer one?

B:  Because it is the easiest access.  As a ship enters the hull,
obviously, the first deck they hit is the outer one.  So they can then
simply propel their craft right into an environment, and step right out of
their craft at home.  Understand?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Then as you progress towards the center of the ship, you will find
there will be many different levels and decks that are relegated to various
forms of exploratory enterprise, as you would call it, research, in that
sense.

There are also vast arrays of open space that are relegated to very park-
like atmospheres, for we enjoy the idea of nature, and in that sense bring
it with us.  The idea is also that there will be many levels simply for
experiencing different environments - to accommodate different beings to
shift from one environment to another, as they may choose to do.  These
might be called pressure chambers, in a sense.  Although it is not exact as
you mean the term.

There will also be the idea of communication stations that we have called,
in very, very colloquial terms - not literal at all - the communication
stations we have termed the chapels, in that sense; which are rooms,
chambers of crystalline formation, that allow an individual to be in touch
directly with the Infinite.

There will also be what you would call amplification modules that allow
individuals to tap into specific frequencies of different dimensions for
the purpose of some of the channelings, as you call them, that go on in
this form of communication.  For do remember that the most natural receiver
device is already living beings.

The idea also is that certain other decks will contain many of the ideas
that you would call leisure activities, where individuals may simply play.
And there are whole simulated environments that individuals can create
simply by a connection to the main computer of their consciousness, and can
explore different realms in that way.  Almost as if they were literally
physically visiting those dimensions, able to exist in those atmospheres
without actually existing physically within them.  You understand?

Q:  Mhmm.

B:  There will also be what you would call the Association council
chambers, wherein can be the projection of many different levels of
consciousness to gather in meetings, as it were, to understand the ebb and
flow of the organization and the communication that goes on between the
hundreds of worlds of the Association.

There will also be the creation of experimental environments; environments
we have not encountered, per se, but environments that we can create, in
that sense, to explore and experiment with in the many ways that the
universe can manifest itself.

Large and vast areas are given over to the creation of entire ecologies on
the ship so that we may understand the full workings of any particular
planetary society - by literally creating vast areas of their entire
ecosystem.

Q:  Would you have any earth-like...?

B:  Yes.

Q:  You do?

B:  Yes.  And on the /Solar Wind/, as on Essassani itself, there are a few
dolphins.  There will be a few other ideas, a few other chambers whose
purpose in that way will not necessarily be that easy, not brief, to
describe.

Q:  Okay, this was sufficient.

B:  Thank you very much. And on the Solar Wind, as on Essassani itself,
there are a few dolphins. There will be a few other ideas, a few other
chambers whose purpose in that way will not necessarily be that easy nor
brief to describe.

Q:  Thank you very much!