It seems pretty universal that people consider the "Starship Bridge Area Map" deckplan from the "Serena Dawn" in SF0 Crash on Volturnus, and the "Starship Upper Deck Map" from the "Omicron" in the Assault on Starship Omicron minimodule to be parallel, rather than perpendicular, to the axis of thrust.<br /><br />I've been puzzling over it myself for a while today.<br />But I think I've come up with a way where I can explain (badly) how the Serena Dawn and Omicron work within the KH design aesthetic.<br /><br />In SF0 we are told we toured other areas of the ship off the map, such as recreation areas, observation dome, galley, first class living areas, and ... fuel storage? Okay... I never would have wanted a tour of the wonderful world of atomic or ion fuel storage but I guess the Serena Dawn stewards go all in on the 100 credit tour.<br /><br />Using KH rules - a 60m diameter hull is hull size 14, giving you a 380m long ship with six engines, 5 hatches, and AD/MR of 3 - far far too much for the Serena Dawn we saw. But, that also assumes a circular hull plan with many decks, and the Serena Dawn and Omicron as rectangular with only a few decks.<br /><br />So, imagine a different approach where the Serena Dawn would look like the bricklike, utilitarian hull design of the ConAm 27 shuttle from the movie Outland:<br />http://www.cyber-mecha.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/OutlandShutt… /><br />If you go further and imagine that the Omicron and the Serena Dawn are variants of the same class, you can use the upper deck map and bridge area map for both. Just rename some of the areas on the upper bridge map to be the first class, galley, recreation, etc... and put the observation dome as a level above the upper deck map centered on the "Hatch to outer hull"<br /><br />When you re-orient the map of the Serena Dawn bridge area, placing the escape pods and bridge on top (or dorsal side?), then the Outland-style shuttle idea kind of works. The officer quarters and passenger class areas could have forward facing portholes in the ceilings of the rooms, like skylights. The first class areas on the deck above would have bigger nicer ones. And with the upper deck map in place, the bridge is still able to see forward, as the crew could look up and out and see over the edge of the upper deck map.<br /><br />This Outland shuttle idea also has the engines facing the right way for this idea to work.<br /><br />I also found a map error (shown below):<br />If you overlay the Upper Deck over the Bridge Area Map, the hatches on the Upper Deck map don't line up with the Bridge Area map. Three of them do, but the fourth does not.<br /><br />If you count deck squares, you will see that the upper deck map has 8 squares between the center airlock hatch and the hatch in the airlock between robot storage and medical lab.<br />But, there are 9 deck squares between the hatches in the center airlock and the airlock between hydroponics and spare parts storage. <br />I overlaid the airlock between robot storage and medical lab over the airlock leading to the escape bay on the bridge deck.<br />That puts the other airlock one square off from matching with the hatch to the airlock near the passenger quarters.<br /><br />Anyway, I am prepping SF to run my kids through every core adventure in order from Pan Galactic Security Breach through Beyond the Frontiers in one arc covering 60FY to 70FY in my timeline and I am going to try out this dual-deck ConAm 27 Shuttle style version of the Serena Dawn/Omicron and see how it goes.<br /><img src="/files/u31010/SFAD-SerenaDawn_and_Omicron_Map_Overlay.png" alt="Overlaid deck plans showing error" title="Deck Plan Error" width="1024" height="652" />
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