Decks by hull size

I just noticed this extraordinary passage in the <i>Knight Hawks</i> campaign book (p. 5):<div><br /><div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px"><div><i>The Hull is the framework of every spaceship, and each hull size includes a specific number of hatches, decks and engine mounts. The Spaceship Equipment section lists each hull size with specifications for engines, entry and exit, and living quarters.</i></div></blockquote><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, the Hull Specification Chart only tells you about the number of hatches per hull size. It seems this very handy metric, the number of decks per hull size, was left out!</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Can we recreate it? We only seem to have one good data point: the assault scout map shows six decks for the hull size 3 assault scout. The problem with freighters (small freighter map, large freighter map, and the <i>Gullwind</i> in <i>Dramune Run</i>) is that some of their decks are converted into cargo space, so we can't count their decks easily. The <i>Gullwind</i> carries cargo, and according to the rules for civilian design (if they apply) it could carry 5 hull size units of cargo, but maddeningly the module doesn't tell us how many units of cargo the ship is actually carrying. Fighter cockpits may or may not count as a deck. Have we got any other canonical ships that tell us both hull size and number of decks that aren't freighters or something else that combines decks? (I'm not too confident in Ken Rolston's adherence to the rules. I'm also not interested in anything from <i>Zebulon.</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div>It's dangerous to speculate with only one good data point, but is it possible that the maximum number of decks is double the hull size? Decks can be combined for large cargo holds. Fighters are excepted from this formula.</div>

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