The Ironclad

The Ironclad is an ugly scavenger/free trader vessel, on which the majority of the stories take place.

Design
The ship is described as being "spiderweb-like" in design, and is composed of numerous shipwrecks and components roughly attached together. It is very ramshackle, and pieces of the ship are constantly decoupling and falling off, but they are just as often replaced by pieces of the ruined vessels the crew scavenge from.

Cockpit
The cockpit is located somewhere near the fore end of the Ironclad. There is a large, swiveling chair that the attending astrogater sits in, and a large, patched-together panel of controls in front of it. Here is where astrogation courses are entered into the computer, and where the safeties, failsafes, and manual controls for the thrusters are located. There is a slate rack where astrogation charts are stored, and a compiler to one side.

Fission Reactor
The fission reactor is the first of two power sources on the Ironclad. It is a liquid fluoride thorium "salt" reactor built by Sofia out of scrap material. Without the proper materials, nor any laws regulating her, it is not built to code and is extremely dangerous and unstable without her constant maintenance. Even then, it is still prone to melting down and flooding the ship with radiation. When running, the exhaust from the ship's torch thrusters make stealth an impossibility, as it shows up brightly on any scan for non-ambient radiation. The floor grating, which is made of mismatching panels with holes and missing patches, rests mere inches above the reactor itself. The steam turbines sit upright in the middle of the compartment, and the rest of the space is taken up by a maze of pipes and hydrocarbon tanks of various, mismatching sizes.

Fusion Reactor
The second power source on the Ironclad, the fusion reactor is a modern, professionally-built deuterium-helium 3 "dee-hee-three" fusion reactor that was stolen, in its entirety, from a "top-of-the-line" frigate. Being professionally built, it is much safer than the fission reactor and requires much less maintenance. The upper floor is composed of masses of wires, cables, and pipes. The reactor sits, sealed, below the floor grating. It is a torus-shaped chamber completely covered in rows and rows of mirror-like electromagnets.

Cargo Bay
A large space set aside for ferrying cargo. This is where the sections of the Hemingway were stored while the Ironclad's crew attempted to sell it, piece by piece.

Mess Hall
A simple mess hall where the crew can eat when off-duty. It is composed of four bench-like tables and a kitchenette.