Overview

Class: Series 1 Secondary 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 SCM 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.

Deck Layout

Deck	Purpose
1	Storage Space
2	Avionics
3	3d Printing Workshop
4	Work Space
5	Research Lab
6	Lithography Workshop
7	Life Support
8	Life Support
9	Life Support
10	Life Support
11	Life Support
12	Storage Space + Armory
13	Drone Fulfillment Center
14	Drone Fulfillment Center
15	Green Room
16	Medical Lab
17	Crew Compartment
18	Crew Compartment
19	Crew Compartment
20	Crew Compartment
21	Crew Compartment
22	Echoni Training Area
23	Echoni Nest
24	Echoni Nest

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.

Green Room

A room reserved for green space, with carefully engineered artificial dirt sections that won't bounce around during maneuvers and plants engineered to grown in the inconsistent gravity expected on a star ship. The ceiling is covered in a meta material designed to emulate looking up at the sky from a planet.

This room assists with the biosphere of the ship, but is primarily intended to give some natural space for crew members to relax in.

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.