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One of the PC's in my SWN game (Best friends 13-year-old son), has recently discovered RPG games. I introduced him to Skyrim over christmas break and now, he's taking the 'Unskilled Alchemist' approach to learning what effects things have.... by eating them.

We finished out the previous game session with him having just consumed most of a 2L bucket of 'Space Barnacles' we scraped off the hull of our abandoned starship before leaving the salvage yard with it...

The next session will be fun... for me. Thoughts? Suggestions?

New design.
Ship is 550' long. It's on the very maximum size of a Frigate hull. Might technically be considered a small cruiser.
100'x150' cargo bay.
This is just level one of this ship. level 2 is yet to be drawn.
This ship has had a long history. It's something like 500 years old. Early 'Silence' construction at the Orion Orbital Shipyard.
Original owner was a Mining operation. Next several owners were privateers, smugglers, pirates, and such. The owner before the PC crew got a hold of it was the owner of a ship scrapyard on the surface of Earth's Moon.
Note the numerous smugglers holds and compartments.

Made the fighters vertically-stacked, meaning capacity is now: 4272 fighters.

This is very possibly a one-off ship, manufactured by a rather wealthy faction.

But, what's interesting is...

I looked into the average cost of an aircraft carrier, which is less than a third the length of this ship, and it's 'Just' 13.1 BILLION dollars. This, utilizing the following multiplier (on items, fittings, upgrades and mods with a modifier based on hull size)

-Cost: Capitol ship x 100
-Power: Capitol ship x 2
-Mass: Capitol ship x 2

Also, I've added flight-deck crew quarters right next to the fighter bays. (Probably 4 levels much like the fighter bays themselves.)

The tram system will go down the spine of the ship on all levels.

I added the rear hangar bay, currently housing a pair of frigates, with the intention of using that for either moving cargo or for later use as a bay to house shuttles.

339.5 Meters long. 101.5 Meters wide, (Est) 65 Meters tall.

Level 1: (Bottom Deck)
- Crew Quarters for 48 crew
- Med bays for 24 infirm.
- Galley
- Pantry
- Mess Hall
- Rec room.
- Life support / ship stores
- Cargo Hold
- Ships Locker
- Comms Locker (coms gear, coms system backup. kept locked.)
- Engineering (backups, diagnostics, HVAC / water treatment.)
- Armory
- Advanced Lab

Level 2:
- Forward Observation deck (w/ blast shutters)
- Crew lounge
- Luxury cabins
- Cargo hold (2 levels high)

Level 3:
- Cargo hold observation deck
- Engineering (topside systems console)

Level 4: Bridge

I changed the fighter count from 40 to 720. (Also made the fighter smaller, as before, it was 40 feet wide, which was way excessive.)
I also upped the frigate count to 20.
Might be able to further increase the fighter count, but...
As it sits... here are the specs:

27,252,150,000cr (I made the assumption that since this is bigger than a capitol ship, it's price increases by 100x due to the sheer size of the required manufacturing facility)

317 power consumption (Assumed it would be double that of a standard carrier)
1769 Mass used. (Assumed it would be double that of a standard carrier)
18 used weapons hardpoints

170 Hitpoints
AC of 30
Max crew ~6000
Min. Crew ~1200

But... there's more tweaks, mods and such I can do if I utilize other resources (expansions and add-ons)

Yes, those are 'Football' pitches near the center of the ship.
(I'm not really a fan of the sport, but it stands to reason that, in 3200, it'll still be the international / intersector sport?)

Other than the length, I changed / Added:
-Greatly increased the number of fighters and frigates the ship can hold.
-Greatly increased the cargo hold capacity.
-Added more power reactors.
-Added extended cooling systems.
-Added Flight control observation decks
-Added weapons control decks
-Increased the fuel capacity.
-Added a med facility (Just fore of the Football pitches)
-Upped the crew capacity to 2,432. (Just on the lower deck.
-Added lab facilities in the fore section
-Added a forward observation deck with closeable blast shield shutters.
-Added spare parts storage for both the carrier and the ships it carries.

This will be, essentially, a mobile HQ. My games version of Vader's Super Star Destroyer.
But, this one will be better armed, and better outfitted.

After I finish this level, I'll do the next few levels.

-The Frigate hangar bays will be 5 levels high.
-The fighter hangar bays will be 3 levels high.
-The cargo holds will be 3 levels high.
-There will be a sub-level under this one shown, where the main ship fuel tanks, and most of the mechanical systems for Water processing, system controls and the detention level.
-The top-most level will be the bridge and executive quarters.

The goal is to add:
-outfitters and stores for crew to get personal items, snacks, etc.
-Several bars and places to eat.
-An armory with gunsmithing services.
-A full machine shop
-A couple of gyms
-Guard stations
-Mess hall and galley.
-a large, indoor park spanning 3 levels, used for recreation and training excersises.
-A Theater
-Hydroponic grow operations
-Lifeboats (probably going to use multi-occupancy boats. 20-ish per boat.)
-a tram system
-weapons stations.

-Eventually, I want to have a side view, top view, front view and rear view, as well as a cutaway showing relative level height.

-Some features you might not be able to see at this scale:
--All exterior walls, and those meant to contain atmosphere are at least 10ft thick.
--All corridors are, at a minimum, 10ft wide.
--All doors are sliding pocket doors, some are pressure-sealed, some are just security doors.
--The walls around the reactors are 20 feet thick.
--The primary method of loading cargo when at a dock is from the side, though, some stations can only load from the rear. So, a cargo ramp and double pressure doors are present at the rear.

all three views I have (so far) of the frigate.
Based on a Xunsu-class, but fudged to have more power and free-mass points to use.

The deck layout for 'The Murphy'

4,772ft long, 2,000ft wide.
It can carry 6 Corvettes or heavy frigates and 20 fighters, 600+ tons of cargo, and will have a crew capacity of 3-4,000.
I know SWN has its chars and recommendations, but... none of them really fit my purposes.

The densely drawn portion in the front is part of the crew cabins. That section contains 4 blocks of single-occupancy cabins, bathrooms, and showers for 76 crew each (304 just in the space shown). This would be the lowest (or second-to-lowest) deck.
The very lowest deck would be for things like waste and refuse management. I had toyed around with the idea of all waste and refuse being fed into the reactors as fuel rather than having to deal with it as solid waste.