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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Many science fiction stories have spacecraft functioning as the homes of their characters rather than being transportation. What additonal cabin substitutes for habitats can you think of that would make a spacecraft a home rather than a vehicle? I will give a couple suggestions:
Gourmet Kitchen: A free fall adapted kitchen with the best cooking equipment that is capable of allowong one person to produce fresh gourmet meals for twenty people per meal period from preserved ingredients. Any crew member who receives gourmet meals for a month will receive a +1 morale bonus to their skills due to good morale.
Spice Garden: Spices allow people who operate in free fall to enjoy food because they can taste what they are eating. Every cabin worth of spice gardens provides the hydroponics systems required to grow sufficient spices for 20 people. If a spacecraft possesses sufficient spices to support its crew, its crew receives a +1 bonus to their skills due to good morale. Extra spices may be traded among spacers for the equivalent of $30 per person-month of spices or may provide a +1 reaction bonus when given as gifts to spacers.
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I should think the primary difference would be in having space for dependents. A ship belonging to a fully nomadic society, as opposed to one whose crew has a base (or which is composed of expendable vagrants with a wife in every starport) will have to have such care facilities.
Besides that, your best bet is a multi-purpose room rather then specializing to much.
A bowling ally is an absurd extravagance except aboard an opulent Titanic-like liner. But a gaming table is possible and electronics economizes on space. A basketball court is out of the question but a net like you have in Andromeda or a set of weights like in Firefly is possible. The kiddies can have a separate space for them but they should be making some contribution to the tribe's common good as soon as they are grown up enough.
Decoration is easily put on and any ship might have some. Freelance Traveller has an article about starship interior decorating.