Rumor

The ***Rumor*** is a long-range spacefaring freighter ship aboard which most of Season 1 takes place.

## Design and Construction

The *Rumor* was designed and built by Sana Tripathi. It was designed to be boarded, and contains numerous secret compartments and tunnels where the crew can hide. The vents are frequently utilized by Arkady Patel. Its appearance suggests it was built of scraps or other discarded material. Brian Jeeter described it as a "Frankenship." It does not resemble a military ship, and is considerably smaller than the Iris I. For ship registration, it has four sets of well-forged papers.

## Interior Layout

The total interior living space of the *Rumor* is comparable to Violet Liu's first apartment. The central room is the mess hall, which has 6 visible doors with keypads, and is where crew meetings are held. A submarine door is visible. The mess hall also contains a hammock, which was constructed out of safety harnesses by Sana Tripathi for morale purposes. The safety harnesses used to be in the hallway near the airlock, but there is still a safety railing there. Heading toward the cockpit, there is a storage room on the left side. There are quarters for at least four crew, and a med bay the size of a closet that contains only a beanbag chair and a first-aid kit. There is a galley/kitchen, as well as a "back room" where Violet Liu claimed to have left her ID while on  Elion. In addition to the shower, there may also be laundry facilities. There is an engine room, which contains a still to brew moonshine, and a cargo hold. Somewhere there is also space on board for a truck and a handcart, which are used for planet-side supply runs. Krejjh has pointed out that writing on the walls can be wiped off. It is unclear whether the *Rumor* has interior windows aside from the cockpit: Krejjh once encouraged the crew to look out them, but Violet remarked that "close quarters, no windows" makes being on the ship feel like being underwater.

## Equipment and Capabilities

### Shields, Weaponry, and Monitoring

The *Rumor* has shields that did not protect it from the Vree Chel Noke nanoswarm. For weaponry, it has pulse fields and two particle beams. In addition to long-range sensors and scanners, it has an external magnifying camera and a viewscreen.

### Fuel

The *Rumor* has the ability to tether to nearby ships and leach their fuel. It uses an RXJ-50 fuel tank, but can be jury-rigged to use an RXJ-51 instead, at the expense of a great deal of fuel efficiency.

### Communications

The *Rumor* can make and receive audio calls to ships or planets as far as light-years away via E.L.L.A., which is free standard software for long-range ships. It can receive data transfers from other ships, even when in flight. When planet-side, it can also connect to local networks in order to complete data-heavy downloads. It can play back audio and video messages that have been received.

### Internal Equipment

The *Rumor* is known to have a battery-powered coffee maker, an electric kettle, and a still. It has a freezer, which can make ice, that is rarely cleaned. The kitchen also contains a tiny greenhouse that folds out of a wall, which was designed and built by Sana Tripathi. There is an interior temperature regulator, which has broken at least once.

## Decommissioning

As part of the events of the  first season finale, the *Rumor* landed on  New Jupiter. The IGR's Team 2 broke into it with a blowtorch. The still in the engine room had been rigged to explode when Brian remotely triggered the countdown sequence. Believing it to be a bluff, Team 2 did not evacuate the *Rumor* and were killed in the explosion.