Spaceships, Floor / Deck Plans, Volume and Hexes

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

Sure, but revising your thinking on bunk size allows you more room for other necessary uses of space. A double-occupancy cabin could be, say, five hexes, with three-ish hexes left over for a share of common space like a kitchen, mess hall, and bathroom facilities.

Except for a jail cell or luxury suite I doubt you have much more then a small sink, if that. On most ships you would have a mess hall and shred bathrooms.

[vicky_molokh]

There's also the Establishment habitat unit (bar, brothel, casino, gym, massage parlour, nursery, salon, classroom, or retail store), which provides enough space for 20 patrons and 3 staff in the space of 2 cabins. Which is a total space of 5.32 to 16.64 hexes.

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Greetings, all!

Trying to figure out the amount of space, I see something troubling. According to the author's expansion, an SM+8 ship's systems provide about 16-50 one-yard hexes each. A Habitat module for SM+8 provides 6 Cabins, with each cabin being suitable for accommodating two people.
That's somewhere between 1.33 to 4.16 hexes per person.
A single one-yard hex is the equivalent of 0.54m² (0.64yd²). At best, this means 2.24m² (2.66yd²) of place per person.

How is one supposed to fit a bed, let alone a cabin, into that amount of space?

Thanks in advance!

A hex is one yard wide, but it's not one yard high.

From Kromm in answer to my question:

> If so, what *is* the volume of a hex (not sure if the height is 1 or
> 2 yards, also).

Canonical hex height for powers and magic is in fact 12' (four yards),
and has been since 1986; see pp. B101, B239 for the current references.
Volume is thus ~93.53 cubic feet, or ~3.46 cubic yards.

Thanks!