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Red light, green light...There are four lights!!! This busy intersection doesn't see a lot of devil bargains, but it does see a lot of traffic. In the dead of night, of course, who knows what kind of shady traffics and shoot-outs might occur on these streets? Available in two additional variants, featuring a fiery collision between two trucks and cars, and the sudden appearance of a bottomless chasm in the middle of the street, hopefully this map doesn't give your players the Cross Road Blues! 

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To expand on my previous post about the Grasshopper, this is the Barrash. Due to how large the maps are, I've intentionally gone with low-res versions that contains labels, which I made for my players to help them navigate the ship.

The Barrash has been my players home for this campaign.  While they don't own the ship, they are key members of its crew. In the campaign it's currently disabled and being boarded, so they are having fun try to fight off the invaders and then get to some how make it operational and Drift worthy again. Yes, I also have versions of these maps with damage and the engines offline.

Lore stuff:
The Barrash is owned by its captain Osgud Volkbeder, a Starfinder Society Venture Captain, who uses it as a mobile Lodge.  The Barrash has been in the Volkbeder family for unknown centuries, having been with the family since the Gap.  It has undergone countless refits and heavy modifications over the many years it's been in service, so very little of the original ship is left at this point.  

It is meant to be push-freighter, taking obvious inspiration from the Millennium Falcon, but scaled up and with a very different look.  Freight modules are attached between the two main arm sections of the ship, which are lined with various airlocks and docking clamps.  These docking clamps can allow the Barrash to transport ships small enough to fit in the space, which has come up on a couple of homebrew missions my players have gone on.  The hangar in the middle is itself a module that can be removed if needed, it is also where the Grasshopper is usually kept.

As far a Defenses, the Barrash isn't combat vessel, but also isn't a sitting duck.  The primary weapon on the Barrash is a large quad plasma cannon turret. It has two flak cannons and a collection of point defense lasers, which have very limited range but can be used in combat situations if an enemy ship is close enough. It also has shield systems with multiple emitters.

Non-Lore stuff:
The process for creating this ship design started with the basic concept of a large push freighter with a small hangar module that the Grasshopper could fit in.  I then pulled out my collection of loose LEGO and started building a small MOC, playing around with different layout and shape ideas before settling on a basic design, see image 5 for pictures of the little LEGO MOC.

From the MOC, I went into DungeonDraft and started building the maps, starting with the lowest level and moving up from there.  This was built over several months while my campaign was ongoing. Initially, my players only had access to the first floor of the left-hand side of the map while I was working on the rest, and I gradually added more of the map into Foundry as I got more done.  There are definitely issues I have with the final design, which I would change if I ever revisit it design.  I think the areas I'm most happy with and wouldn't change much are the Engine Room, Hangar Module, and Deflector/Shield Control Room.

Tool: DungeonDraft
Assets From: Forgotten Adventures, PeaPu, JChunick, and White Fox Works

An assembly line can be a dangerous place – especially when the androids turn on you! 

The Assembly Line Map packs include both an android assembly line and an empty assembly; both come in night and day variants in JPG, PNG, and VTT. The Map Packs are available at https://www.patreon.com/GimmiePig.

This map pack was created (by a human) with Dungeon Draft software and assets from the amazing asset creators listed on my profile.