SWS Genesis

The SWS Genesis (Star Warrior Ship Genesis) is a ship developed and operated by the Star Warriors. Upon completion, the ship was commissioned to be a part of a growing number of ships that made up the Fleet Of The First Line. She was a prototype "deep scout" frigate, one-of-a-kind, co-developed by Trace, Viron, Valor, and Quill with sponsorship from the Arcane Council. She is optimized for solo reconnaissance missions deep within unstable regions, using state-of-the-art stealth technology powered by an experimental drive core designed by Viron.

After commissioning, the Genesis began operating under a 'rotating command' structure that allowed fully fledged Star Warriors who were part of The First Line to take over as captain of the vessel or fill out the subsequent officer roles. The fulltime crew consists of members of the Star Warrior Service Corp Exploration Corp.

The Genesis is named after The Book of Genesis, the first book in the King James bible.

## Internal Layout

### Deck 1: Captain's Cabin

The topmost deck of the ship is entirely comprised of the captain's quarters. It is located directly under the exterior pressure hull, earning the nickname "the loft" from the fitting yard workers.

Aside from a full-sized bed, office desk, standard furniture, the cabin features a private terminal for monitoring the various survey and combat teams assigned to the Genesis, reading incoming messages from Polaris, accessing the Polaris archives via a secure QEC link, and an armor locker.

### Deck 2: Combat Information Center

The command deck of the Genesis is comprised of the ship's bridge, Combat Information Center (CIC), Research and Tech Labs, Armory, Briefing/Communications Room, and main airlock.

The bridge holds several seats with monitors that interface with controls and displays for piloting the ship, plotting navigation, and monitoring ladar systems. The primary interface for any shipboard AI is found here as well, though the AI can speak throughout the ship at multiple interface points. The CIC is centered around a large cosmic map which the captain can access to plot the next destination of the Genesis, and directly next to the map is a private terminal where the captain can access electronic correspondences and review basic information about the crew. The Yeoman is stationed at the cosmic map as well. Aft of the galaxy map are three chairs designed use by the captain, the executive officer, and the CIC deck officer.

The Armory and Research Lab are situated aft of the CIC. The lab on the ship's starboard side is stocked with state-of-the-art lab equipment and includes a terminal where the captain and executive officer can allocate resources to develop upgrades for the ship or its crew, as well as review existing upgrades and modifications, the armory is on the port side of the ship. It contains several lockers stocked with standard weapons that can be found within the Polaris Training Hall and the necessary tools to customize and modify those weapons.

Situated between the Armory and the Tech Lab, and accessible via a doorway in the middle of a hallway running between the lab and armory is the communications room. This room features a circular meeting room along with seating for the various members of the Genesis ground teams and crew. The room also features a QEC that connects directly to Polaris to allow the captain and other senior officers to converse in real time with the arcane council or their designee. In the middle of this circle is a holographic projector that can be used for displaying mission relevant maps and projections, most of which are usually rendered by the ship's AI.

### Deck 3: Crew's Quarters

The third deck of the ship is where the crew spends most of their downtime. It includes Executive Officer's Offices, crew quarters, back-up power supplies, a galley that is run by the ship's Petty Officer Of The Galley, a medical bay, the AI Core, and the main battery where the Gunnery Officer is stationed. A primary access hallway running athwart the aft section of this deck holds many of the rooms that house crew bunk areas. At either end of this hallway are observation rooms.

The main battery where the gunnery officer is stationed holds the primary operating systems for the Thannix Cannon, Javelin Disruptor Torpedoes, and point-defense systems.

### Deck 4: Engineering

The fourth deck of the ship is the engineering deck, which houses the drive core for Genesis at the aft of the ship. The core is much larger than most drive cores on frigates employed by the Star Warriors. The deck itself hosts an observation area that looks down into the Hangar bay below. Between the observation area and the drive core is the engineering area where most of the affiliated crew works with and maintains propulsion and power systems for the ship.

### Deck 5: Hangar

The lowest deck of the ship is the hangar, where smaller fighters and patrol craft assigned to the Genesis are stored and maintained. This area is where ground teams assemble and are deployed from the Genesis either by way of being dropped off in a patrol craft or by performing a HALO drop when jumping out of the hangar bay doors. Despite it's role as a deep scout vessel, the Genesis is too large to safely hold position close to the ground when entering atmosphere for extended periods of time, thus it relies upon patrol craft for deploying and extracting star warriors.