Re: Jump Space: Date: 224-1107 15:00
"We're not a big ship." Saskia replies to Tylen's question, shaking her head, "Not like some of the big Navy cruisers I served on, where you could walk through the vents standing upright. Well, I could, most of the others were too tall."
She works her fingers across the engineering console, quickly and expertly, then waits, tugging at the dirty dressing on her left hand for a bit while the displays update, before balling the injured hand into a fist and jamming it between her knees.
Her right index finger traces several points on the display. "For most of the system, the ducts are somewhere between fifty-three and one hundred centimetres wide, by ten to fifteen centimetres high. So we won't be doing the whole scare vid cliché of crawling through the air shafts, even if that is where the monster is hiding out."
Four sections of the schematic flare green as she taps them. "There are three chambers here, here, and here. All of them are one metre cubes. This one is the filtration arrays, this the humidity control, and this one is where the temperature and pressure regulators are. The fourth one is the pump chamber, which is a little bigger than the others. Each of the chambers has a maint hatch, so I can service the equipment, but in the case of the pump chamber it doesn't give access to the ducts, just to the outside of the machinery."
More sections light up, amber this time, "All the vent grills can be unfastened and opened, giving access to short sections of duct, if you feel like sticking your arm inside. Every cabin and compartment has two grills. The intake one is at floor level, so it sucks in dust stale air, the blower is just below the ceiling, blowing out fresh air.
"The cargo hold has three intakes and three blowers, and there's two of each here, in Engineering, same as on the bridge. Everywhere else has one of each. Air and dust come into the floor level part of the system, then through the filter and humidity chambers, before being pumped up to the ceiling level section and through the temp and pressure regulators. Now, for the eggs to be caught in the filters, my guess would be that Momma Monster got into an intake, and she might still be in the lower section, since she hadn't bust through the filters."
Red flashing lines start to appear at numerous points on the display, "And these are the airtight seals, which drop in case of a pressure loss. Don't have your fingers in the way when they do. They have no safety sensors on them, since their primary purpose is to stop any air loss, and they'll sever an arm to do that, if they have to."