Highliner

Deep Rift Highliner Deck Plans

Deep Rift Highliner Deckplans

Interior Details:

1. Bridge: Contains positions for Pilot, Navigator, and Engineer. An access panel forward opens to an avionics bay that extends into a crawlspace beneath the entire forward bridge and crew area. Aft is the Model 1/bis computer (which seldom must be accessed in flight) and an airlock providing access downwards to the outside of the ship and upwards to the manned forward gun turret. Some vac suits are usually stored in this airlock.

2. Fire Control Station: Three gunnery positions in this area are used to control remote turrets attached to modular pods. The forward gunnery position is equipped to double as a launch control station to monitor probe launches and small craft activity.

3. Common Area: This widened corridor serves as a forward crew lounge, with a small table and entertainment console. There is a small refrigerator and microwave oven, but no extensive galley facilities.

4. Stateroom: Used by the Captain when a crew pod is available, this stateroom has a bed, work table, computer console and some limited storage space. Three bunks fold down from the walls when a four-man crew must share this space due to a crew pod being unavailable, and the living conditions quickly become abominable.

5. Storeroom, usually stocked with emergency rations, survival gear and spare parts. When a crew pod's galley facilities are unavailable, the crew must make do with the rations in this storeroom.

6. A communal fresher.

7. Forward Connection Lock: Access passages to modular pods are connnected here, with iris valves port, starboard and down. If an access passage is not connected, this compartment can serve as an airlock.

8, 9, 12, 13: Access Passages: Passageways between Modular Pods and the Highliner itself. Access Passages are often kept in zero-G, especially the vertical ones, but ladders and handholds are provided.

10. Central Core: The sturdy main structural spine of the ship, all power, jump field and life support connections to Modular Pods are connected through the Central Core. Conduits cover all surfaces, with a grating provided for a walking surface.

11. Aft Connection Lock: Similar to the Forward Connection Lock (area 7.).

14. Main Engineering: The Chief Engineer's station is here, at the Jump Drive controls. Repeaters for critical engineering systems are also present, and most of the deck is crowded with the major components of the Jump Drive itself. The iris valve in next to the Aft Access Lock is in the floor, providing access to the Power Plant below, while the two other iris valves are in the ceiling and lead to the Upper Engineering Deck.

15. Upper Engineering: The Maneuver Drives take up most of this deck. A rack of EVA equipment is located along the forward bulkhead.

16. Main Airlock: The major external access point for the Highliner, excepting the small craft. Connections on the outside hull allow a standard 3-meter docking tube to be attached for inter-ship passage, though the Highliner often does not carry one.

17. Launch Gangway: This corridor leads to an airlock that will mate with most standard 20-ton craft, especially the model carried by the Highliner. Viewports forward, port, starboard and above allow a crewman in the Gangway to provide visual confirmation of Launch approach and docking.

18. Launch: A standard 20-ton Launch nestles into a docking cradle here, providing liaison and other light transport capabilities to the Highliner.

19. Lower Engineering: The Power Plant and associated controls take up most of this deck. The flanges on the outside hull to port and starboard are heat radiation vents (one of the main reasons the Main Airlock is on the Upper Engineering Deck). A baffled area below the deck contains the Highliner's integral 10-ton fuel tank, as well as fuel conduit links that can be attached to any Fuel Pods the Highliner carries.