CV-Hoffnungsschimmer — Mainframe

[Foxglove]

CV-Hoffnungsschimmer
Interior Data

[Ship Schematics, large view]

Canteen

Located at the front of the vessel on the main deck, the canteen is rather miniscule compared to the amount of people that could potentially be housed on the vessel. While the ship had initially been intended to utilize twice the space for canteen and kitchen than it now does, this seemed quite wasteful after the vessel swapped ownership and Vertiga had it refitted. Now, the canteen is a rather cosy place, but for only four people regularly inhabiting the ship, it is more than enough. The other half of the front that had been part of the canteen before is now walled off, and serves as a quasi lounge, or a place where one can watch movies on a quite large screen.

Crew Quarters

Located on the main deck, there are exactly thirty six crew quarters, enabling the ship to, in theory, be populated by at least twice that number. Connected by a single corridor of approxinately four meters in width, it would probably become rather crowded if the ship were to become this full. Currently, only a handful of quarters are actually in use, one for Maren and Ezrael, one for Leon, Nancy, Thallia and Pimakhova, although the latter seems to have disappeared without a trace, leaving only a crate of tobacco in the room. The rest of the quarters are completely untouched, and have been so since the rather indulgent lifestyle of the ship and its visitors stopped with Ezrael's falling-out with the Core. While usually, it would be necessary to have at least ten people maintaining the ship, there are Kishiro Service and Maintenance Robots (KSRs) that look after the primary functions of the ship, barring the engine section, where the Cloaking device is. When not in use, the KSRs are either stored in the unused quarters or in the cargo section.

"Medlab Holes"

While the actual medlab is located on the lower deck and had initially been little more than a small infirmary for scratches, bruises and the occasional broken bone, it has been taken over and substantially advanced by Thallia Thorn during her stay on the Hoffnungsschimmer. This also included bringing some pretty heavy machinery over to the ship, most of which did not have enough space in the small medbay, thus, being no woman for half measures, Thallia simply punched holes into the ceiling to make the devices fit. How exactly she did that, nobody knows to this day, but what is known is that this treatment made two of the crew quarters above inhospitable, since one could literally see into the medlab below and fall. Luckily, no water or energy conductors were damaged, and an examination by the KSRs revealed that no major risk besides for one's bodily wellbeing was impending from the damage. Up until this day, nobody had bothered to actually try and fix these holes. Not that the crew of the Hoffnungsschimmer would really have another place to store these devices, let alone move them there.

Observation Deck

Actually just an empty room with a fairly large window, the room was quickly dubbed observation deck by Nancy. The frontal, unobstructed view made it perfect for appreciating the beauty of space around the crew, and given that the ship often stayed in Cayman or Omega 49, it was also immensely bright. Maybe not the perfect place to host a dinner due to the proneness to excessive light intake, it still remains a rather idyllic place to simply appreciate nature, as far as that was possible, being that one was still standing in the result of multiple millions of years of selective breeding, plus human inventiveness.

Medlab

Prior to Thallia Thorn moving to the Hoffnungsschimmer, the medlab was merely a small infirmary for minor injuries. After she moved to the Corvo, many of the amenities have been replaced by more state of the art and also more complex machinery. After all, Thallia was medically literate, and so it would be rather easy for her to capitalize on extended equipment. Now being able to host even complex surgeries if necessary, it was also equipped with an array of scanners designed to identify and analyze physical maladies within patients. These devices, however, come at a cost, which in this case would be space. To fit the devices into the medlab properly, there have been holes made into the ceiling that render the quarters above inhospitable until such a time comes in which the problem is being looked into or the medlab is maybe moved to the cargo hold, where there is more place. With no means to really move these devices, let alone use them without Thallia, this day seems to be in the far distance.

Thallia's Laboratory

Nobody on board currently really knows what is inside, since this had been Thallia's domain, and since she only sporadically visited the Hoffnungsschimmer at best and had left the door locked with a pretty complicated password, there was no getting in there. Not that the crew is really trying, of course. Its location in the middle of the ship also places it where it is essentially in plain view but everybody just does not pay attention to it, and so it remains sealed with whatever is held within, maybe until the day the ship is put to rest. The medlab and the laboratory are also directly adjacent to the airlocks of the ship, the only place where one could board or leave the ship.

Gym

The gym had been mostly Ezrael's idea. Seeing as how the crew sometimes couldn't move much on the vessel during deep space journeys, it became necessary to prevent his fiance Maren from eating too many donuts, or at least force her to train off the additional calories afterwards. There are additional showers adjacent to the gym, although the water sometimes simply knows no in-between of scalding and freezing.

Engine Room

The engine room is the confluence of most of the Hoffnungsschimmer's mechanical workings. Contrary to what the name might suggest, it does not just house the giant deuterium-mox engines that could effortlessly also be installed on any ship the size of a cruiser, but it also houses life support, water purification, waste disposal, and energy systems. While usually supplied with power by a thorium-mox reactor, it has been replaced largely by a Nomad Power Cell that Ezrael had acquired during a Nomad invasion within the Manchester system. While usually, incompatible with human technology, Maren, who is infected, offered him to add the power cell into the ship's systems, thereby removing it from his direct possession, as it couldn't be removed anymore without causing a catastrophic failure in the ship's systems, and thereby assure that it could not be used against the Nomads in any way anymore. For further reading, refer to the next page. For now, the power cell is supplying only the engines and the cloaking device with power.