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| | The gigantic armored prow of the ''Aetherius Aeternum'', installed after a lengthy debate between the Lord-Captain and his command crew. Replacing an old prow-mounted macrocannon battery, the new prow is a menacing thing: Painted in the silver-on-black color scheme of House Viaticus, nearly .75 megatonnes of adamantium have been fashioned into the face of a swooping Imperial Eagle, the twin heads sporting tremendous beaks, which serve as the actual breachers for ramming operations.<br> | | The gigantic armored prow of the ''Aetherius Aeternum'', installed after a lengthy debate between the Lord-Captain and his command crew. Replacing an old prow-mounted macrocannon battery, the new prow is a menacing thing: Painted in the silver-on-black color scheme of House Viaticus, nearly .75 megatonnes of adamantium have been fashioned into the face of a swooping Imperial Eagle, the twin heads sporting tremendous beaks, which serve as the actual breachers for ramming operations.<br> |
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| − | Physical dimensions: 120 meters long, 60 meters wide, 50 meters high.<br>
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| − | Physical description: Eight-tiered demipyramid.<br>
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| − | Staff on duty, out of combat: 432, excluding backup Navigators and Astropaths.<br>
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| − | Staff on duty, in combat: 552<br>
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| − | The bridge's tiers are cut into three primary sections, the lower, central and upper bridge.<br>
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| − | The lower bridge houses the gunnery coordination/cogitation crew, the Aetherics crew and the Mechanicum detachment responsible for the bridge.<br>
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| − | Tier One, the largest of them all, belongs to Gunnery, and with good reasons: the extensive cogitator-network that gives the Aetherius Aeternus unparalleled accuracy in combat requires much space.<br>
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| − | Tier Two belongs to the red-robed Adepts of the Machine-God, for similar reasons: They require much space to operate at peak efficiency.<br>
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| − | Tier Three is the home to the Aetherics crew, also very space-intensive due to the four analysis-pits where eighty specialists labour to convert the sensor output into proper data.<br>
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| − | The central bridge consists of tier four and five:<br>
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| − | Tier Four houses the Lord-Captain's command throne and console, together with the command-level seats and consoles for all other tiers: Tier Four is truly the nexus of the bridge at which the Lord-Captain and his most trusted officers coordinate the work of the entire ship (ie. where the PCs are).<br>
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| − | Tier Five is where the sixscore bridge armsmen and the armed underlings of the command crew are found, and it is from here that most shipboard security manners are directed.<br>
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| − | The upper bridge consists of tiers six, seven and eight:<br>
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| − | Tier Six is the nerve-centre of the Viaticus financial affairs, the undisputed domain of the ship's seneschals. The constant clatter of the sixteen massive remuneration-cogitators, the smell of ink and the scratching of autoquills on paper are a permanent reminder of this tier's importance.<br>
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| − | Tier Seven houses the psychic amplifiers and linkers that are the domain of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, and it is a rare mundane that ventures onto this tier: the foreboding aura that surrounds it is strong indeed.<br>
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| − | Tier Eight is the undisputed domain of the Navis Nobilite, offering six sleeping quarters, two dozen servitors and massive sealed and shielded doors beyond which no normal man may pass without an invitation of the Navigator Prime. Offering all the creature comforts necessary to keep the Navigators happy, Tier Eight is never opened during a warp-voyage, the Navigators working on a pre-determined rotation to ensure that none of them ever has to pilot the vessel dead-tired.<br>
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| − | All tiers, save for the Eighth, are connected to each other by a set of six massive lifts, each capable of housing twenty people and, secretly, heavy remote-locks for the doors and poison-gas dispensers slaved directly to the captain's command console, in case hostile elements attempt to use these lifts.<br>
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| − | Furthermore, two ornate stairways connect all eight tiers to each other, hewn from white granite and inlaid with mosaics of an unknown jet-black stone, depicting various Imperial saints.<br>
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| − | The color scheme of the bridge is light, held mostly in white, gold and black reliefs, and as such requires regular and thorough cleaning, a duty undertaken by a Century of tenth-generation janitors (see also 'Bondsmen-families to House Viaticus, Vol XIV, Ch. 27').<br>
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| − | All tiers save for the First and Eigth offer a railed balcony to gaze at the gigantic armourglass viewscreen, the gilded adamantine railing hiding a cunning mechanism that allows eight-inch thick adamantium sheets to rise between the railing struts to offer cover on demand in the unthinkable case that anything breaks through the fifty meters wide and thirty meters high viewscreen and attempts to gun down the bridge-crew.<br>
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| | ==== Enginarium ==== | | ==== Enginarium ==== |
| | '''Aquarium Trapeti'''<br> | | '''Aquarium Trapeti'''<br> |
