Floorplan
3d printing workshop
Lathes, additive printers, and other tools fill the 3d printing workshop. Basic electronics like batteries, or other complex parts like turbines can be produced here.
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.
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.
Drone Fulfilment Center
Automated cargo storage, drone repair/production/storage, and the processing power to determine the needs of the crew before the crew even knows it. These automated centers pack in the automated systems needed to maintain and even build new worker
drones to deliver items or store them. There are also ample storage space, 3d printers, and other automated tools that can be used to store spare parts, make cosmetic adjustments to items, build new objects from scratch or even prepare food items. Finally, are also sufficient servers here to house the software needed to
monitor the crew and pre-emptively prepare the items that they will likely need with the goal of always having just what they want ready for them just when they need it.
Combined with augmented reality systems to present menus and occasionally the appearance of items that aren't there, these fulfillment centers are what enable such a high standard of living in places like
New Cambridge. Bringing these systems in a crew-module is a move towards comfort over efficiency.
Echoni Training Area
A Fully Automated training area built around supporting the Echoni. The upper floor contains an open area that can be quickly reconfigured for a variety of training scenarios while the lower area is full of the machinery and drones needed to upkeep the training-equipment for the Echoni. This includes simulated
weapons, training cybernetics, and various training drones that can be deployed through the floor of the upper level.
Medical Lab
Distinct from the Medical-Bay, the ship’s Medical Lab contains a variety of facilities for biological research, testing, and other work including several completely isolated test-areas for sample containment and growth. The area is designed to Biosafety Level 4 standards but is traditionally only used to BSL-1 standards.
This lab also has automated systems for creating small amounts of highly complex molecules like medicines or nanomachine therapy systems.
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.
Lithography Lab
The lithography workshop carries small batch silicon refining tools, and a vacuum-chamber for creating new high-end electronic components. The lab can only produce new electronics in small amounts, but it can produce some of the most advanced conventional components.
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.
Storage Space + Armory
Built with a matching floor plan to the radiation bunker of the Series 1 PCM, the Storage Space + Armory section houses an armored internal room that is configured to store personal weapons and ammunition.
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.