[SR - FB1] The Wave of Knowledge

[pombe]

Dramatis Personae:

Sea Rats

Ethylene Glycol

Professor of science. A former faculty member at a prominent Corrington university, she was dismissed after failing to have her grants and fellowships renewed as a result of years of failing to publish in peer reviewed scientific journals. Railing against the scientific institution's insistence that data obtained from experiments must be reproducible and come from well controlled rational approaches to testing a model, Professor Glycol has decided to start her own university of higher learning at the Port of Bastion, where she can do science the proper way and publish in her own independent journal with herself as the sole reviewer, unfettered by the rules of the intellectually inferior.

Lucy Liu

Sixth year graduate student with no publications. Bitter and jaded, with hatred for the entirety of existence, Lucy followed her advisor to the Port of Bastion, because no other faculty members would accept her as a student after being already mentored by Professor Glycol. Highly intelligent and talented, she has languished in academic hell for the past six years, trying in vain to get her advisor to adopt the practices of the other science professors.

"Motorboat" Peacock

Third year graduate student with no publications. People assume he is nicknamed after a seafaring vessel that has not been invented yet, but in fact, he is nicknamed after a thing he does with his mouth which is named after a seafaring vessel that has not been invented yet. Very popular with the ladies, he spends more time getting into the beds of women than he does actually doing any science. He followed Professor Glycol to the Port of Bastion to escape his fiancee, who was the one who blinded him after learning of an affair "Motorboat" was having with his undergraduate assistant.

Alois Bieber

First year graduate student with no publications. As a former Olean soldier in the Order of Faith, he was leader against the principles of science, when he attempted to disrupt a seminar being given by Professor Glycol. Instead, he found himself understanding her talk and becoming interested in the subject. Confused and bewildered, he spent two years soul searching until he was able to accept that he had been wrong his whole life. Alois then sought out Professor Glycol, explained his scientific enlightenment, and became her student.

With the Wave of Knowledge, now we can sail from port to port and attend scientific conferences. Meanwhile, we can network and set up collaborations, as well as recruit faculty for the new university of Bastion.

I'm guessing you'll register her as our free ship, a class 2 trade vessel?

Indeed. She isn't the fastest vessel, but she can definitely carry specimens we discover on our scientific expeditions back to port. Her spacious hold also has enough room for the crew quarters and provisions. By removing the main deck, you can access the hold.

Because a crew that sleeps together stays together!

If you try to sleep with anyone other than Alois on this boat, I will rip your testicles off and shove them so far up your anus that you'll vomit them back out.

ANATOMY!!!

She also comes with a ship's boat and a pair of heads at the bow.

Yes, my fantasy of defecating into a box in full view of everyone while being violently tossed about by the ocean waves can finally come true.

My fantasy of watching you do that can come true, too!

I swear I will kill you so hard, you will actually die twice. By the way, is there any reason why all the pictures we've shown are from the port side or bow?

That's because the LEGO company got cheap and only prints the sails on one side, which forces fans of LEGOs to only display their builds from specific directions. Here's the ugliness in full view.

Do you see this, LEGO? This is ugly! Help us help you by printing the sails on both sides!

And that's that. I guess that wraps up this free build post.

We're not going to reveal how the hull was assembled?

And give away our secrets so others can copy our work?

It's called "open source", get over it! Here's the bottom of the hull....

Wait! Stop!

Too late!

What have you done, Lucy!!!

Oh, shut up!

Comments and criticisms are all welcome!

[TitusV]

That's a rather cool ship! Excellent use of the sails!

[Ayrlego]

That presentation was great - I actually laughed out loud several times! Nice little vessel as well

[blackdeathgr]

Cool ship, excellent presentation and a great challenge to build interiors as well as using friends colors!! And the ship pattern looks interesting from below! I might have to enforce corporate espionage and steal the schematics! Overall I love this MOC! Also a nice hint on single printed sails. I dislike them too...

[Tomsche]

Ahaaaa, so the AG trend of hilarious stories continues

Great story, and I love the details on the ship like the beds et all

[Khorne]

And so the glorious Pombe comes to Brethren of the Seas . Great build and your story cracked me up, as always. Great to have you here .

[Mike S]

Thats some really nice hull shaping there! Great build!

[Franco Clarke]

Very nice little boat, I like the use of purple, not a colour often seen on ships, and the full hull allowing for a decent interior.

[Vedauwoo]

Love it, love it, love it....can't wait for the future adventures!

[Puvel]

Hehe, lovely ship and a great story, thanks for making me laugh :D

[Captain Dee]

This is a fine vessel overall. The hull in particular is really good, from the shaping to the unique colorscheme to the modular design. I like that lantern design - they're very simple but effective and I think they look great on the stern of a ship. But I think those sails are a little overdone for a vessel such as this.

The presentation is really good, of course! Besides being humorous, I think you picked the perfect facial expressions for the characters. I'm liking this Lucy - beautiful, snappy, sassy all the way.

Keep it up.

[Bregir]

Highly amusing story, Pompe.

Your ship design is very unique, as are the colours and characters! I really like how you have included the full depth of the hull, and furnished it with beds and cargo. And the ladders are a nice detail too.

I am not entirely sold on your jollyboat, but in this size you are quite limited in the design. It sort of looks too modern, I think.

I think this is closest to a xebec, although it does confound me a bit. I like the use of these sails, and the technique for the hull is great. (I actually have a gun boat built in much the same way.)

The lack of a bowsprit does give it a somewhat chubby look, though, but I do not think it retracts from the build.

Overall great work!

[Gideon]

Very nice brickbuilt hull!

[kurigan]

Neat! Though I won't lie, she seems a bit "blocky" somehow, her shape in general is pretty spot on. From any angle or profile, she's really looks the part. I even like the color! your application of technique is brilliant at least and sinking her in a brick built sea, as to have a compete below-deck is just plane clever. The way the upper works "float" you could even recycle the hull for other builds. Put a cutter, schooner or even a brig together for later.

I wouldn't worry about the print on the Lego sails. If I have one criticism it'd be that she might be under-sailed. Lateen Riggs as such, historically, would often throw up much larger sails on a hull that size. You could use the Lego sails as a template and trace them onto some hearty paper stock; perhaps construction paper. With that you could enlarge or decorate them to your hearts content.

Little tip on that: lay your paper sail over a ball, balloon or something with a bolster like that, dampen it (not wet or soak) and allow it to dry. When you 

peel it away it should hold the shape and look perpetually full of wind. (may take several tries.)