The castle is a full sized castle, basically square to rectangular in plan form, with cylindrical towers at each corner. (Let’s try the long wall of a rectangle 2000 ft long, and the shorter wall only 1500 ft.) The front gate has a rounded gate opening, with functional drawbridge that lowers over a small moat. The moat completely encircles the castle, providing swimming for the castle guests and the resident plesiosaur. Water pumps keep the moat water circulating, providing a huge lap pool where one can swim and remain stationary, or move with the current around the castle.And that's just for the Castle Enclosure. There are two other balancing enclosures which, with the connecting structures, form our space vessel, "The UTS Flying Castle."
The courtyard walls are thick, comprising two small rooms, little more than cells, and a narrow corridor across the thickness of them. Each floor of the castle, from twenty five to thirty feet high, has two floors in the walls to correspond with it. The ends of the corridors have two-story (25 ft) day rooms with fireplaces and other group comforts. The castle has four primary floors above grade, (This makes the walls of the castle 100 ft high.) Beyond the gate, nearly a thousand feet of courtyard provide a secure area to entertain guests within the walled area, and the back portion of the castle is a structure 500 feet wide by two thousand feet long. The back tower on the right has a large circular(75 to 100ft) floor plan of seven of the 25ft floors. The observatory is set within the roof structure at the top of this tower.
The back tower on the left side has a narrower tower, rising very high above the plane, almost a minaret. The castle grounds stretch away for perhaps a half-mile in each direction, with a variety of terrain in different quadrants. Within close sight of the castle are cultivated fields yielding to orchards and vineyards, and then to woodland and forest. At approximately a mile radius from the center of the castle is a “steel fence” that merges into a latticework of girders assembled into a globular hexagonal greenhouse over the entire castle valley. The structure extends underneath the castle also, making a Christmas tree ornament of enormous size. Ports and loading dock doors and hatches cover the surface of this lower area.
Remember, the children have all day to figure out how to get into trouble; We have 30 seconds, at most, to stop them.