Overview

Class: Series 1 Primary Crew Module
Operators: The Magnetic Assembly
Manufacturer: The Magnetic Assembly

Height: 70 meters
Diameter: 20 meters
Decks: 24
Internal Volume: 3,518.6 meters^3

Crew: 22

Range: ~1 year before resupply

Appearance

The PCM is a cylindrical tank that stands 70 meters tall with various airlock systems connected to the exterior. It is fairly basic in appearance, and is often housed inside of starships, burred underground, or incorporated into larger structures.

Internal Appearance

The insides of the module have minimalist look incorporating lots of whites and light greys over a variety of soft surfaces. This largely comes from space-first nature of Assembly Designers and their need to keep weight down while maximizing use of available space. Common areas will typically have additional storage space for emergency equipment behind walls. The entire module is rigged for sound, video, and image projection. While this can be used for utilitarian functions like showing information, it just as often is used for adjusting the color patterns on walls to personal preference.

Deck Layout

Deck	Purpose
1	CIC
2	Avionics
3	Storage
4	Medical Bay \ Cryo bay
5	Life Support
6	Life Support
7	Life Support
8	Life Support
9	Life Support
10	Kitchen
11	Diplomatic Space
12	Storage Space
13	Secure Storage + Radiation Bunker
14	Life Support
15	Work Space
16	Crew Compartment
17	Crew Compartment
18	Crew Compartment
19	Crew Compartment
20	Crew Compartment
21	Crew Compartment
22	Crew Compartment
23	Crew Compartment
24	Crew Compartment

Floorplan

Avionics

The main Avionics bay houses the ship’s primary computers, avionics equipment, spare parts for the electronics, main servers, and stability systems used to keep both the computer core and the module as a whole steady. These containers are typically the MAC-2 computer core and the MAC-3 Containerized Stability System.

As this is a higher security area of the ship, direct access to the electronics of the ship is blocked off by an armored airlock to the right side of the lifts when exiting.

The containers themselves can be removed and replaced from the ship through opening an airlock that is typically locked close during operations.

CIC

The ship’s Combat Information Center, CIC, Bridge, or Control Room. This floor contains the control systems for the ship as well as some storage and off-duty areas that double as a safety-bunker in the event of an emergency.

The CIC of the ship itself is a large open room with a single table at the center. With chairs that can fold away to fit underneath. The entire room is filled with projection and display equipment allowing for anything to be projected above the table or along the walls. The typical configuration has the space around the ship projected onto the walls around the central table.

Just outside of the CIC is some storage space as well as a room with bunks and creature-comforts designed for use by the command crew, or for use by the crew during an emergency.

Both the CIC and the Avionics bay below it are encased in a thick layer of armor. That provides a high level of protection against stellar radiation and weapons fire.

Crew Compartment

The PCM’s crew compartments are designed for long term use. Each floor includes a small shared entryway and saves the rest of the floor as living space for one crew member. This is relatively spacious, and allows each crew member to have their own custom space along with their own private baths, storage, and entertainment areas. Among Union and Magnetic Assembly ships the ~1000 square feet of living space is considered a lot.

Diplomatic Space

Originally used for an international summit between major nations, the ship’s Diplomatic space includes a large space with a circular table and display screens along the walls. An entryway into this room contains enough standing room for parties to move about, mingle, or take their conversations to one of the attached private rooms.

Kitchen

Located below the life support systems, the kitchen-deck is used for short term storage of fresh food and the conversion of freshly harvested organic material from the life support systems into either consumable meals or long-term storable food products.

Life Support

The primary life support systems for the module are housed in the life support areas of the ship. An airlock on the side of the deck can open to allow up to two cargo containers to be loaded with enough room in between to access their internals from the front or side. These containers are intended to be a containerized life support system, typically the MACS-1. With three decks devoted to life support a full containerized system can support 27 people indefinitely.

Additional space beside the life support containers is given over to hydroponics bays to supplement the variety of food available to the crew.

Medical Bay

The ship’s actual medical facilities are designed with caring for human crew members. They contain a number of auto-surgery beds, pharmaceuticals and detection tools designed to look after the crew’s day to day medical needs or to see to traumatic injuries. For longer term crew storage or for highly complex injuries two dozen cryostasis pods are available.

Secure Storage + Radiation Bunker

This room includes a secondary radiation bunker for the ship's crew: An area that is heavily reinforced with additional armor and shielding so that the crew can survive when in radiation storms. The room can also be used to secure non-critical crew members in the event of an attack. The stronger walls also are used to make secure storage areas to house things like weapons or other 'high security' items that need to be kept under lock and key.

Storage Space

A basic storage space used for supplies. This includes a number of climate controlled rooms which can be used to store material long term or cooled down to refrigerate perishable items.

Work Space

A number of reconfigurable workspaces are in the main compartment, each can be setup to create an open office plan or create smaller offices, meeting areas, or communal spaces.