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SHIP TOUR
With such a long and colorful history, including several changes of ownership, it was inevitable that SS Fawkes would be enhanced in some ways and degraded in others by the handling and mishandling she received from so many different engineers and repair schedules. These days her interiors are fashioned in a labyrinthine hodgepodge of conflicting styles, jury-rigs, remodels, renovations, and rebuilds, and the many heavy plastic binders containing hard copies of her schematics have been altered almost to the point of incomprehensibility.
In her current shape, Fawkes can manage no warp factor greater than 5, can fire only one of her cannons, and cannot raise her shields. Some of her doors and hatches stick; dozens of graviton emitters need replacing; many of the storage drives were removed or damaged by Starfleet Security investigators and nearly everything needs scrubbing. Optical cables crisscross the deckplates in some engineering spaces. The storage bays are a shambles, filled with junk, broken parts, and unsold crates of old cargo. The few bright spots include the entire passenger mess deck - which was recently remodeled by the Ferengi Commerce Authority - and many of the crew living spaces, which saw some renovations under both Droz and her Orion Syndicate predecessor. Deck Listing and Compartment Numbering Fawkes is fashioned from three connected divisions (or sections) constructed around rib-like frames welded to the bowline and keel and sewn together with heavy but distinctly old-fashioned armored plates. Division A comprises all of the space between the stem and the forward transverse bulkhead of the forward cargo compartment, and includes the bridge and crew spaces. Division B comprises all of the space between the forward transverse bulkhead of the forward cargo compartment and the after transverse bulkhead of the after cargo compartment, and includes the entire cargo assembly. Division C comprises all of the space aft of the after transverse bulkhead of the after cargo compartment, and houses the ship's engines, quarterdeck, fueling tanks and passenger spaces. The sections are further divided by bulkheads into units called variously tanks, bays, compartments, shafts, alleys and passageways. Corresponding to the floors of a several-storied building are the decks (or partial decks) and platforms, which are made of plates laid across beams called deck beams. Entrance into compartments or tanks is gained through doors, hatchways, scuttles, or manholes. The "chimneys" and plasma vents are colloquially called stacks or funnels. Frames are numbered from bow to stern. The sections have twelve, nine, and ten frames respectively. The various units placed aboard ship can be located according to a position relative to a certain distance from the closest frame; up or down relative to a certain distance above or below a particular deck or the base line; and port or starboard relative to a certain distance from the bowline (center line) of the ship. All numbers in each division begin at the forward end of that division and advance in a counterclockwise direction. Compartments on the starboard side of each passage usually have odd numbers, while those on the port side have even numbers. All compartments and spaces that are completely bounded by airtight structures are numbered. Where a compartment is divided into two or more airtight spaces by airtight bulkheads, the appropriate number is assigned the compartment and each airtight or subdivision within the compartment is designated by the addition of a suffix to this number. For ease of navigation, doors, hatchways, scuttles and manholes are numbered separately from compartments. Their numbers consist of two or three parts separated by hyphens. The first part corresponds to the deck number; the next part, the frame number just forward of the hinge of the door; and the last part, the number of the door, if there is more than one door on the same frame on the deck designated by the first part (if not, the third part may be omitted). For the first part of their numbers, hatches and manholes take the number of the deck through which they are cut. For example: Hatchway 3-24-1 is on Deck 3, behind latitudinal Frame 24, or between frames 24 and 25, on the starboard side. This door is behind the third Division C frame and accesses compartment E323, the pump room handling anti-matter reactant, plasma and coolant lines on Deck 3. SHIPBOARD COMMUNICATIONS
Unlike Starfleet vessels with their iconic combadges, SS Fawkes currently has no functioning wireless communications network. While much of the infrastructure exists, three generations of technological modifications have slowly degraded its integrity to nearly nothing. The only system of any reliability is the hardline intercom system. While there is a one in eight chance that any individual transceiver is disconnected from the others or in need of repair, especially on the lower decks, all the critical spaces are connected, including the bridge, main engineering, the mess decks fore and aft, the cargo control room, and the computer core.
An operator can use the intercom to communicate with the entire ship, separate sections, individual decks, or sole compartments. There are buttons for each function, as well as buttons for compartment letters ('C' for command spaces, 'E' for utilities, 'L' for crew spaces, 'W' for water or steam compartments, and 'B' for weapon spaces), and numbers. To exclusively dial the captain's stateroom, for example, the user must input 1-L-1-0-8. DIVISION A
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DIVISION B
Deck 1 and Deck 2 of the cargo section of SS Fawkes are occupied by Cargo Bay One (A250) through Cargo Bay Five (A254), which are relatively compact and are built to hold minor stores. These bays are non-detachable, and are actually constructed into the frames and keel (the skeleton of the ship), with structural integrity and shield emitters running along the bowline.
Deck 3, Deck 6 and Deck 9 access Division A through shaft alleys, scuttles and hatchways, and along a hundred-plus-meter-long stretch of passageway interspersed at regular intervals by frame bulkheads with hatchways to the transverse bulkhead opening into Division C (A320-329, A630-39, and A920-29). These bowline passages feature magnetic conveyors and rail platforms used to move cargo between holds or personnel from one end of the division to the other, with the largest and most powerful rail platforms running the main Deck 6 arterial, with a control room at C640.
Deck 3, Deck 6 and Deck 9 access Division A through shaft alleys, scuttles and hatchways, and along a hundred-plus-meter-long stretch of passageway interspersed at regular intervals by frame bulkheads with hatchways to the transverse bulkhead opening into Division C (A320-329, A630-39, and A920-29). These bowline passages feature magnetic conveyors and rail platforms used to move cargo between holds or personnel from one end of the division to the other, with the largest and most powerful rail platforms running the main Deck 6 arterial, with a control room at C640.
Deck 4 and Deck 5 house Cargo Bay Six through Cargo Bay Fifteen, which, like the upper bays, are designed for minor stores (A430-39 for upper access and A520-29 for lower access). Even-numbered bays are located on the port side of the ship, while odd-numbered bays are to starboard. They are accessed via manholes, scuttles and airtight ramps from Deck 3 above and Deck 6 below. Deck 7 and Deck 8 house Cargo Bays Sixteen through Cargo Bay Twenty-Five, designed to hold medium stores (A710-19 for upper access; A820-29 for lower access). As with the upper bays, evens are built to port and odds to starboard, with access to Deck 6 and Deck 9.
Deck 10 and Deck 11 play host to the heavy stores held in huge Cargo Bay Twenty-Six through Cargo Bay Thirty (A1010-14) for upper access only, via Deck 9 hatchway platform load-lifters and ladders. Small boom cranes and windlasses housed in chain lockers on the deck above can be used to manipulate especially large items.
Port and starboard storage bays are detachable.
Port and starboard storage bays are detachable.
DIVISION C
Deck 1. B120: Disruptor battery. B121: Disruptor targeting assembly. M122: Magazine. E123: Plasma routing assembly. E124: EPS battery. Deck 2. L240-2: Passenger quarters. L243-44: Heads. L245-46: Washrooms. L247: Wardroom. L248: Commissary. L249: Galley. W249: Drainage tank. W250: Water compartment. W251: Peak tank. W252: Reserve feed compartment. E253: Freezer. E254-55: Lifts. E256-58: Lifeboats. E259-60: Passageways. Deck 3. E320: Propulsion assembly. E321: Engine control (upper). E322-23: Anti-matter reactant injectors. E323: Distribution. E324: Pump. E325-26: Motors. 327-28: Lifts. A329-31: Passageways. E322: Storage battery. E323: Reactor assembly and control. E324: Relay tank. Deck 4. E450: Propulsion assembly. E451: Engine control. F452-53: EPS routing assembly. E454-55: Lifts. L456: Head. A457: Tool room. L458: Washroom.
Deck 5. E540: Engine control (lower). E541: Auxiliary transporter control. E542-43: Matter reactant injectors. V544-45: Ejection ports. V546-47: Void tanks. E548-49: Lifts. F550-53: Fuel compartments. F554-55: Relay tanks. Deck 6. E640: Auxiliary engine control (sub-level). V641: Warp core ejection. V642: Vent funnel. V643-44: Plasma ejection ports. E645-456: Docking clamp assemblies. E647: Mooring line assembly. E648: Mooring control. E649: Deflector array assembly. E650: Structural integrity assembly. E651: Structural integrity batteries. E652: EPS routing assembly. E653: EPS coolant tank. E654: Lines alley. E655-56: Lifts. L657: Quarterdeck. V658: Gang- way. V659: Airlock.
Deck 7. E730-31: Lifts. V732-33: Plasma ejection ports. E734: Mooring line assembly. E735: EPS battery. E736: EPS routing assembly. E737-38: Relay tanks. Deck 8. E830-31: Lifts. V832-33: Plasma ejection ports. E834: Mooring line assembly. E835: EPS battery. E836: EPS routing assembly. E837-38: Relay tanks. Deck 9. E940: Auxiliary deflector control. E941: Auxiliary deflector battery. E942: EPS battery. E943: Coolant tank. E944: EPS routing assembly. E945: Propulsion assembly. E946-47: Lifts. E948: Distribution. E950-51: Pumps. E951: Motors. A952-955: Passageways. E956: Storage battery.
Deck 10. 1020-E: Propulsion assembly. 1021: Reactor assembly and control. E1022-23: Relay tanks. E1024: EPS routing assembly. 1025-26: Lifts. A1027: Passageway. A1028: Coolant tank. A1029: EPS battery. A1030: Storage battery. A1031: Structural integrity assembly. Deck 11. E1120: Propulsion assembly. E1121-22: Lifts. V1123-24: Airlocks. V1125: Gangway. E1126-27: Motors. E1128-29: Docking clamp assemblies. E1130: EPS battery.