Editing Lintula class Survey Vessel

Starting outside the ship, one enters up the ramp to the air-lock at the front of the lower deck. Once in the air-lock, on the right side is a walk-in locker for EVA and other equipment. On the left is the lift shaft to the upper decks. Walking straight for- ward through an iris valve (OK, so we open it first . . .) we enter the hangar/cargo area. A large 10 m x 5.5 m loading lift fills most of the floor space - big enough to allow the launching of a small craft. Either side towards the rear are cargo spaces. Here the design's bad - the cargo has to be piled high and strapped in to make sure it doesn't fly about. Plus, some idiot for- got that when you launch anything in space, the hold's got to be in vacuum. So you can't be storing passengers or livestock in here, get my drift? I can tell you, at least no one's going to be nicking these ships for their trading company!  

Here we are: engineering. Smell that polished metal. Mmmmm. What we have here either side of us is a dual Cytia 1836 power plant installation giving us the necessary power to push the two Sabelline RXl0l thruster units towards the back. Very reliable and good linear thrust ratio throughout their power range. This blob in the middle is the Exxier "Topper" jump drive. Oh, I almost forgot - those Cytias also power our dual Archangel 2-2 56 MW lasers. Not that we like to fight, but you never know what you might encounter out there.These consoles on either side are for engineering. Look, 1'11 just run up a few performance curves. . . oh, you're a bit short of time? Okay, before we head back to the lift, note the iris valves behind the jump drive - one up and one down into the cargo bay. Just gives us an extra route up and down if we need it, plus the iris valve at the rear we sometimes use for engineering EVA.  

Right, we're coming out into the forward end of the crew rec' area. On the right is another emergency air-lock. Opposite is our favorite toy - the auto grunge dispenser. It's supposed to produce food, but frankly no one's ever managed to get any- thing other than tasteless colored gunk. Heading toward the rear, on the left is all the fitness kit which we need to keep us in trim, and to the right our comfortable little lounge with the obligatory holovid unit for replaying ancient films.Yep, we get an allocation of a whole 5000 vids in the databank, but frankly, after a few six-month trips, you've seen everything - the Corp doesn't have a big entertainment budget, so we bring along our own. Finally, through the iris valve is the survey room. Another bungle here - they should have had this next to the bridge, but when it came to redesign, this was the area with space. Can you believe it?The Corp didn't want to reallocate a few little staterooms up here so instead they crammed the whole multi-mil' cred' suite in here! Oh, and there's a manual hatch up to the ventral turret if you ever need to service it or reload missiles.Yes, it's a real pain - you can only sensibly reload this baby when you're on the ground.The dorsal turret? Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, that one's got a service hatch down under the front lift.