Waste Space

Waste Space is unused or unusable space within a ship hull.

• While the term sounds like it might be for garbage or refuse storage, that is not accurate.
• Ship's Papers often make note of waste space.
• It is a kind of Ship Equipment.

Description (Specifications)

More streamlined hulls tend to have higher percentages of waste space. Less streamlined or unstreamlined hulls tend to use their space more efficiently.

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Secret Cargo Holds

As ships can afford to use less space space efficient hulls, smugglers increasingly convert waste space to smuggling compartments and secret cargo holds. There is a fine art to secreting contraband into a ship hull well so that customs officials will overlook it.

History & Background (Dossier)

In the earliest days of spaceflight, the cost to lift a pound or several kilograms into orbit was exorbitantly high, so lower technology spacecraft very understandably minimize waste space.

By the TL:10-12 tech epoch, gravitic control technology, specifically G-Drives makes it tremendously more affordable to transport mass out of a gravity well and less space efficient hulls become vastly more widespread.

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