(I assume that both human merchanters and warships have the same overall technology and layout, since they use the same fuel and docks. That is, to a lesser extent, true for Compact craft, since _Ulysses_ could dock at Gaohn. I used keywords, most of them followed be shipnames. That could be improved. Q: stands for Quote and not for Question. O.M. Oct 93) SUMMARY design for all ships ML gives detailed description of a large, state-of-the-art merchanter, the _Dublin Again_, and a small, obsolete craft, the _Lucy_. I ignored all the descriptions of the decay and the strange comp on _Lucy_, since that is no normal state of affairs. These quotes confirm that merchanter ships look very much like the carrier drawing in DS. The habitable section is a ring or cylinder that rotates in flight (around the ship's axis) and is locked when docked, reducing the living space to a narrow strip on the bottom and dock-only rooms useless in flight. The size of the ring depends of the crew complement. Usually, the nursery school is on the side opposite to the bridge. Part of the ring can be used for 1 G storage, at the expense of living space. The ring is covered by the frame, an outer shell that does not rotate and carries sensors, weapons and the like. Behind the ring and in the core are the holds, and at the end are the engines with the vanes. SUMMARY design specifics for DUBLIN AGAIN The cylinder of the _Dublin_ has three decks, each stretching out with several halls over the length of the cylinder and big rooms that can be used in dock to accomodate the crew (that results in crowding). SUMMARY design specifics for LUCY The _Lucy_, a small craft, has a single deck with only one corridor around the whole ring. On the "bottom" of the ring there are the bridge and the dockside lounge, followed (turning right) be the galley, cabins (a parallel corridor in this part) - this is section two -, the loft, perhaps more cabins, and parts storage, on the other side of the bridge. Under the ring (or "outside") are service shafts. Main Deck _Lucy_ <-useful in dock-> ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Cabins? | Bridge |____Cabins_____| L | Storage | |____Corridor___| L O | | | Cabins | O _F_____|_Cabins?_______|________Galley_|________Cabins_|__F_____ _T_____|____Corridor___|____Corridor___|____Corridor___|__T_____ | Storage | Lounge | Cabins | ---------------------------------------------------------------- Seal Seal Seal Seal com Q: Communication from Pell ran on, an overlapping jabber now, as the com board gave up trying to compress it and created two flows ... ML52 comp Q: She wiped the stylus over part of the order. ML102 crew, carrier Q: That ship's a Mazianni carrier. They have maybe three thousand troops on that thing. ML173 crew, Dublin Q: 1082 lives were registered to Dublin ... 146 were entitled to wear the green stars of executive crew; of that number, 76 wore the collar stripe of senior, seated crew, mainday and alterday. 4 wore the captain's circle, one for each of four duty shifts; 24 ... were entitled to sit the chair in theory ... And 16 were retired from that slot, ... 7 working posts at com ... 8 posts at scan, with four more at the op board that monitored cargo status. 25 techs and as many cargo specialists on a watch ... 446 posted crew ... 279 unposted, who trained ... the retired: over 200 of them, ... nearly 200 under the age of twenty. ML26 crew, Lucy Q: His departure left Sandor solo on Lucy ML6 crew, Lucy Q: A ship's crew of abouit sixty above infancy ... ML143 docking Q: ... the dock, along which gantries pointed at the distant unseen core, towers aimed straight up ... and farther along aimed askew ... with a tinsel left-hand edge of neon-lit bars and restaurants ... ML17 docking Q: ... at the long upcurve of the dock which was curtained by section arches ... Tall metal skeletons of gantries ran skeins of umbicials to the various lighted caverns that were ship-accesses across the dock ML11 docking Q: The cone loomed ahead. "Docking coming up..." ML195 docking: Q: ... led the way up the ramp in deliberation, into the lighted access, ... He walked the tube passage ... ML116 engines Q: Nullpoints ..., being more than planet-sized mass... ML45 engines Q: [Lucy] was kicking in the vanes in hard spurts, which shifted him in and out of realspace in bursts of flaring nausea. ML49 engines Q: ... jumping loaded was a different kind of proposition ML134 engines Q: There was the mass which had dragged Lucy in out of the dark. ML135 engines Q: He hit the dump, kicked in the vanes, shedding what they carried in a flutter of sickening pulses. ... They kicked of velocity again, a numbing pulse that scattered wits a moment. Ml135 engines Q: The vanes cycled in, Lucy tracking on the star that gave them bearings, and they went - ... - in again, in a pulse down that made itself felt all laong the nerves ... ML165 engines Q: ... neat pulses which slipped them in and out of here and now, loaded as they were, shedding velocity into the interface, while the dark mass lent them its gravity, pockmark in spacetime sufficient to hold them ... friendly, dangerous point of mass ... ML165 engines Q: ... like stringing the next two jumps ... and maybe they could not haul the velocity down - would become a missile traveling out into the Deep beyond any control, too much mass for her own systems and exponentially doomed. ML162 engines Q: ... the ship dumpde velocity - an interface dump that shocked his mind numb with the unexpectedness of it. engines Q: ... undocking ... with a gentle puff of Lucy's bow vents. ML24 engines [Australia is hauling Lucy] Q: Maybe four G; a thing like that might pull an easy ten. Maybe more, with internal compensations. ML177 fuel Q: I'll boil water from the tanks. ML21 operations, Dublin Q: When Dublin had collected all the packaging and the debris, ... out would pop a waste cylinder. ML 28 scan Q: [Lucy scans Norway] ... on vid and there was nothing to see but an approaching disturbance that whipped by faster than vid could track it. ML123 ship design, carrier Q: ... this narrow-accessed monster. Dim corridors: a long walk to a wider area and a lift to the upper levels. ... A walk afterward down a narrower corridor - bare, dull metal everywhere, ... Coded identifications on the exposed lines, on the compartments. Everything was efficiency and no comfort. ML111 ship design, carrier Q: ... a view of a monster warship, ... a baleful glow of running lights illuminating the angular dark surfaces of the frame. Cylinder blinkers began their slow movement as the carrier established rotation. ML191 ship design, dartship Q: ... a Union dartship stood off from dock, dull-surfaced and ominous, with vanes conspicuously larger than any merchanter afforded. It watched, its frame bristling with armaments and receptors. ML25 ship design, Dublin Q: with most of their quarters inaccessible during dock. ML28 ship design, Dublin Q: ... in uncommonly narrow spaces, because the great cylinder that was Dublin's body still sat in docking lock, and no one in dockside boots could take any corridors but the number ones. The rest remained dark, up the upcurve of the intersecting halls, waiting the undock and start of rotation which would restore access to the whole circumfence of the ship. ML 29 ship design, Dublin Q: The pale green of outer corridors became Op Zone white ML29 ship design, Dublin Q: The lift whisked them up to second level, ... it stopped again on main, ... through the corridor into the main lounge, ... curve- floored and with the float-based furniture now tilted out of trim with the ship's geometries. ML29 ship design, Dublin Q: The sixes through sixteens were up in the topside of the cylinder, where they spent most of their dockside time ... in a topsy-turvy ceiling-downside nursery, where a padded crawlthrough made G reorientation only another rowdy, tumbling game. ML32 ship design, Dublin Q: The old man had taken his seat in his chair among the rows and rows of dormant instruments and controls, with the few on-duty crew working in the far distance forward on the huge bridge. ML89 ship design, general Q: She had expected a lot of 1 G storage on this ship, a lot of the ring given over to cargo. ML143 ship design, general Q: The loft ... was the safety-hole of the young on every ship she knew of. Farthest from the airlock lifts, farthest from the bridge, farthest from accesses and exits. ML144 ship design, Lucy Q: ... A rotating ring with a long null G center and belly that was her holds, a stubby set of generation vanes stretched out on top and ventral sides ML 38 ship design, Lucy Q: Rightward, the corridor to the cabins ... and to the left another corridor horizoned up the curve, lined with cabinets and parts storage. Aft of the bridge ... another space showed, ... Their commonroom, that had been. Their indock sleeping area, living quarters, wardroom - whatever the need of the moment. ML 38 ship design, Lucy Q: ... past sealed cabins, into the narrow confines of the galley and galley storage. ML39 ship design, Lucy Q: There were compartments all about the ring, private quarters. Diametrically opposite the bridge was the loft, where the children had been... MK39 ship design, Lucy Q: ... the lift down into the accessway, got out facing the short dingy corridor to the lock, and the yellow lighted gullet of the station access tube at the end. ML55 ship design, Lucy Q: Cabins 2.5 meters by 4. That's locker and shower and bunk ... Lockers are under and over the bunk. ML99 ship design, Lucy Q: ... the familiar lock. ... He kept going to the lift ... The lift let them out on the main level, into the narrow bowed floor of the indock living quarters and the bridge ... ML116 ship design, Lucy Q: Ship's stores are core, bridge-accessed for null G stuff; ML120 ship design, Lucy Q: ... the shape of the hold and where the tracks ran ... ML120 ship design, Lucy Q: ... number four bridge post ... ML120 ship design, Lucy Q: ... the rotation lock synched in, and there began a slow complication of the cabin stresses, a settling of backsides and bodies into cushions and arms to sides and minds into a sense of up and down. ... the whole ship theirs again. ML122 ship design, Lucy Q: She left the galley area, rejoined the central corridor that passed through that, walked past other doors, all cabins, by the number of them. ... and walked on, to an intersecting corridor. She entered it, found another bank of cabins behind the first, a dark corridor of doors and intervals. ... A section seal was in function, she came on it as a blank wall coming down off the ceiling ... Maybe four seals - around the ring. ML144 ship design, Lucy Q: ... he had the heat started up in number 15, and if the sensors worked, the valve that shup the water down in 15 would open and restore the plumbing. ML156 ship design, Lucy Q: Functions shunted: com and cargo to Deirdre, scan one and two to Curran; ... ML171 ship design, Lucy Q: Got all kinds of service shafts down there. ML173 ship design, Lucy Q: Lucy's own rotation ... They where limpeted to the belly of a monster, frame to frame ... ML177/178 ship design, Lucy Q: ... since dock. Rotation was stopped. ML182 ship design, Lucy Q: She moved ahead in the shaft, reckoning that somewhere toward the bow had to be a crawlspace leading to main level: They were downside as they had docked, because they were under the bridge/lounge area, ... ML183 ship design, Lucy Q: ... the lift back in the lounge that would take them down to the frame. ML191 ship design, Lucy Q: Her cabin was marginally in reach with the cylinder in downside lock. ML196 ship design, rider Q: A ridership passed them ... faster than they could possibly move. ML194