TLM= MK!:fork::lol:
We want futurism!
Sea Base BETA!
Hmmm...let me walk through this and see what they did wrong...
EpcotServo's The Living Seas - He wants built.
SeaBase Delta - The Fourth SeaBase, Commissioned 2021, and seeing the first crew arriving in the year 2031 is our destination this time. some 25 years after the original Seabase Alpha was constructed in the tropical reefs outside the Atlantic shelf, is the latest and most dangerous Seabase.
As part of the DEEP program (Deployment, Education, and Enrollment Program) we visitors, and possible new recruits for work at SeaBase walk through the plush and opulent lobby featuring antiques and history from the early days of Nautical Exploration.
We enter a round room, stark and deep blue. A jingle greets us as adventurous music plays.
"The ocean...as beautiful as man's imagination, and as deep as Man's fears."
The voice begins to delve into how Man as tried to conquer the Oceans, to no avail. Eventually he explains that through worldwide-cooperation, and government action, Seabase Alpha became an invalueable tool for learning about the Oceans. But when the dream was threatened, a "Friendly company we all know and love, stepped into those shoes, and began to truely conquer the ocean...
Through understanding."
Seabase Beta, built in the Gulf Of Mexico, took the knowledge applied to Sea life in Alpha, was applied to Undersea Geology-And became a leaping off point for Several earth-shattering natural energy sources.
With Energy and Sea Life in mind, the next base, was built off the coast of Monterey Bay, not only the deepest SeaBase yet, but the first in the Pacific Ocean.
SeaBase Charlie, the most expensive, yet Smallest base yet to date, was built in the Antarctic. Helping us to learn of the global climate, while harvesting a better future from the boundless Energy trapped in that cold sea. For us-And Oceania Industries.
We soon find ourselves in a corporate looking theater with distinct modernistic and Asian influences. The room darkens.
A ruough-hewn voice greets us.
"Try to Imagine, just for a moment..."
The voice is that of Richard Staemount, (Played by actor Bill Nighy) the CEO of Operations for Oceania Industries. After painting a grand and frighting portrait of the creation and power of the Seas, he begins to explain that we still have to much to learn. From nation to nation, coast to coast, these bases have opened up a whole new world for us to explore, and cultivate. He dares us to choose a different fate. To choose the impossible, because you never know what you will find down there...
"Now we at Oceania Industries invite you to take your first step into your Future. We invite you to explore the darkest reaches of our living seas. We welcome you...to SeaBase Delta."
Ominous music booms as the opening doors break the darkness...Flashing lights ahead. As we walk through the doors, voices on the Radio chatter off and on, In English and Japanese.
Ahead is the Hydrolator doors, only these are much, much darker and tougher looking. Pipes, wires, vents, and rocks peierce the bubbling water. A voice chimes in, in English and Japanese:
"Attention guests of SeaBase Delta: DSP (Deep Sea Pressurized) Hydrolators are currently arriving at East Wing Airlocks. Please standby. Once the doors open, please proceed slowly into the Hydrolator, keeping your party together. Due to the effects of Rapid Decompression, you may experience Light-Headedness on arrival to SeaBase Delta. This is normal. Please be advised that Underwater currents, Volcanic Activity, and other unknown activity may cease or delay Hydrolator arrival. We thank you for your patience, and hope you enjoy your time at our Base."
With a flood of bubbles, and a release of Steam, the doors open and we board. Dark Blue, grey, and red is the sleek interior. Gone are the rocks, out the smaller, thicker and more bolted windows, we can see air lock walls, and reflections of water below us on them. The doors shut, followed by a BLAST of air. The Flat Screen Monitors around us flash "Pressurizing For Descent"
A com voice checks in as the lights dim.
"Tower to Dispatch, Hydrolator 3 is ready for sortie."
With a THUD of water, the walls give way to streams of bubbles and dark blue. The screens show our Hydrolator descending rapidly.
"Hydrolator 3 is clear of Dispatch"
"Approching 300ft. and Energy Fillers are holding steady."
"Roger."
The light blue gets darker and darker as we go deeper and deeper.
A Video Comlink opens up on one of the screens.
"Welcome to the SharkBait can my friends! Enjoying the ride? No? I can't stand em' myself. It's all the fun of being stuck in an Elevator with the added element of being hundreds of feet below the ocean, plummiting at 50 feet per second. Not to mention 1/8ths of an inch of glass seperating you and tons of cubic feet of pressured oxygen per square inch, and instant drowning from the entire ocean squeezing on your transport like a tin can."
The walls around us deeply moan and rattle as the floor shakes even more.He begins to laugh as another crew member rolls into frame, blocking his own Mic.
"Ignore alan, Folks he does this to every Hydrolator"
He touches Alan's screen and reads it.
"What he meant to say was that you're at 700 Ft. and looking fine."
He rolls back to his station, while Alan chuckles.
"Who says we don't have fun?...ANYWAYS, just hang on for approch. You'll be arriving at DownDock in a few seconds. You on the edges might wanna hang to the rail...You in the center can hang on too...each other I guess."
The com link statics out, then back in.
"Oh yeah, and and your ears might pop after the Cabin Pressurizes, don't worry, that'll happen after Total Oxygen Decompression and arriving 1,000 feet below the Seas. Have fun..."
The Cabin Shakes back and forth violently as the bubbles rush faster. CLUNK...BABAMMMM! A rough stop. As the water lowers, we see similar airlock walls around us. Another long BLAST of air and a piercing ringing noise. The doors open.
After boarding Dark Blue SeaCabs we slowly pass through gun metal hallways, looking out into the dark blue ocean -where huge fish, and giant schools pass by. Grey volcanic coral surrounding. (A much different atmosphere than the bright coral reefs of the Atlantic.)
Rows of TV's above and around us show us where we're at. A voice explains...
"SeaBase Delta, the newest SeaBase, is a consummate work in progress located in the deep Pacific, in the heart of the "Dragon's Triangle". A focal point of research in Energy and Sea Life, for harnessing (With our working partners from America, Russia, and Japan) the Living Seas for a better future."
As the Oceania industries PR plays out, it's interrupted by a Live Feed of Alan from the Hydrolators, backed by Commander Mark Fulton.(Played by Nathan Fillion)
"This is Commander Fulton of SeaBase Delta, sorry to interrupt the carefully planned and no expense spared videos by our wonderful superiors, but down here they can't much care that we haven't had time to clean up from Yesterday's Earthquakes. As you can see down at these depths it takes quite a beating, so if you wanna' work with us keeping this place from flooding and research just what's going on down here, best find something to do as soon as you get here. If you want a gilded tour, the Hydrolators are back are right up ahead."
"Commander Fulton, Modules 76 and 9B have malfunctioning Compression Tanks, we need an authorization for Diver Lockout."
"...Perfect. Now you tourists can really help, you wanted the SeaBase Delta experience , this is a heck of a day to have it. Over and out."
Now we see the Main Hall...Far from the clean look of Alpha, this is a stark white, grey, black, and red hall. Most is still sheet Metal. Tubes, Pipes, Panels, and lights everywhere. There are several falls of water leaking from pipes, flowing all the way to the main floor, and into a pit. A Large Gap in the roof reveals more duct and paneling work. Smoke pouring out, as sparks fly out to the sounds of a wielding torch. Hazy smoke fills the air, as hundreds of screens flash diagnostics.
From here many adventures await. In an E-Ticket Dark Ride using a multi-level ride system variant of 20K at TDS, you can explore an Underwater Canyon, in search of new life-and the mysterious energy source as alluded to earlier.
Exhibits and hands on adventures actually provoke interaction to aid the crew of SeaBase Alpha, and the deep sea environment around it, shifting the focus from SeaLife back to how the Sea impacts the world at large.
On the less shakey ascent, Alan greets us on the screens again.
"Leaving so soon? And just when we fixed about 10% of the Malfunctioning systems...Oh well, we have a saying down here: If it ain't Life Support, don't fix it....Don't tell Oceania Industries that of course..."
"I heard that..."
Commander Fulton chimes in.
"Well, as you can see there's a real spirit of adventure down here. May not be pretty, but discovery isn't always shiny. Contracted or not, we can always use some help keeping stable down here at 1,000 feet. So feel free to come back down here anytime...Take care."
"Hydrolator Docking...standby for Decompression and sweet, sweet land...Bye now!"
A blast of wind, as the doors sigh open into the bright daylight of Epcot.
Yeah, now that I thought that through I have about a billion problems with how they redid it.
