Model 44 Standardized Crew Barracks

The Model 44 Standardized Crew Barracks serves as the crew quarters of the Iron Company's void-borne craft as of YE 44

With the need to rebuild their fleet as quickly as possible, the Standardized Crew Barracks serve as part of an attempt to standardize as much of the internal components as possible. Serving as scaleable quarters for the rank and file of the Iron Company's spacefaring ships as of YE 44. Cramped, dingy, known to accumulate moisture, mold, and mildew, and built more for efficiency than optimal crew comfort. Unkindly, but not inaccurately referred to as “Fart Hotboxes” with the bunks being stacked as tightly together while providing just enough room to move around in it. The amenities are just as cramped, often providing little in the way of privacy while providing the bare minimum standards of hygiene necessary to ensure proper sanitation.

Needless to say, a posting as a crew member or armsman of a Company vessel is not a relished position, if just simply for this alone-if anything it makes many a yeoman grateful for the time spent planetside during combat. In YE 46 the Iron Company began modeling its standard components a little closer to the Yugumo Corporation's own standard systems, this included things like marginally better materials, better amenities, and additional climate controls resulting in more comfortable living conditions-though efficiency is still the number one factor to reduce the amount internal space used within vessels.

The Standardized Crew Barracks is just that; a barracks for crew members to bunk in during downtime, and is little more than an armored box that's been shoved into wherever the company has decided to put the thing in and then bolting bunks and amenities in. It does have the benefit of proper climate control, though given space concerns and the number of individuals often crammed inside it does little to reduce the heat inside; though when the heating fails this outside of the engine room is the warmest space in the ship. It also has lockers for the crew to store their equipment inside of-one of the more interesting features is that it features an airlock system as well as anti-spall and full environmental sealing and an independent life-support system that can run from 1 to 3 weeks depending on the number of individuals inside. This seems odd, though in the event of an attack that should the ship be breached and/or disabled the barracks can serve as a shelter for any surviving crew members until rescue or a lifeboat unit can be readided.

Dark, cramped, and dingy, with small bunks just barely big enough to house their occupants and florescent lights at regular, albeit sparse intervals, and all too small showers and toilets for the crew. Its walls are grey, dull, and utilitarian.

Commissar Farzi created this article on 2022/12/20 17:22. Art by mid-journey AI

This was approved by Andrew on 2024/11/08.¹⁾