ASC Fort Worth

ASC Fort Worth
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Class.	Colossal-Class Miner
Manufacturer	Bennett Industries
Complement(s)	Shuttles and Escape Pods
Crew	1,500
Commissioned	2027
Status	Missing
Last Seen	2030
Affiliation	Allied States Space Authority - EcruFox Corporation

The ASC Fort Worth (Allied States Civilian Craft: Fort Worth) was named after Fort Worth, Texas, Allied States. It is a Colossal-Class Miner mining vessel and the EcruFox Corporation's mining fleet's flagship. The Fort Worth was commissioned on the 16th of February 2027, and manufactured by Bennett Industries. The ship went missing on Friday the 13th, September 2030 while on a mining mission on Pluto, with Captain Benjamin Isaacs as its captain.

Ship Layout

Main Article: Colossal-Class Miner

All Colossal-Class Miners look almost identically the same:

Bridge

The control room is where the Fort Worth is navigated and monitored. It consists of several sections: the Atrium, which is the bridge of the Fort Worth; the Captain's Room, which is Captain Isaacs' personal observation area and sleeping quarters; Administration Deck, where the ship's section leaders work; and Communications/External Access, where the Comm Array is located. The various sections are serviced by elevators accessed from the Atrium. Escape Pods are located outside the Captain's Room. The Captain's Room itself is a restricted area and only officers holding the rank of CO Class 5 (as per Allied States Space Authority regulations) are allowed to enter. The bridge controls are all holographic. Various stations with holographic displays are present throughout the Bridge.

Crew Deck

The residential area of the Fort Worth. It is a large deck, housing numerous sleeper bunks, a mess hall, a Zero-Gravity basketball court and several small lounges containing chairs and sofas placed around a large holographic display for means of entertainment. The Executive Lounge and Executive Quarters (leaders of the ship's homes) are located here, as is the Executive Shuttle. The Crew Deck consists of five blocks, Block A, -B, -C, -D, and Block E.

Engineering Deck

The section of the Fort Worth where various engineers work at maintaining the ship. This area is responsible for ensuring the correct function of the ship's engines, gravity centrifuge, and the navigation rockets, as well as a continual lifting capacity of 550 trillion kilograms. Only CO Class 5 Engineers are allowed entry. Unlike other ship areas such as the Bridge and Medical Ward, the Engineering Deck is very dark and industrial, often with pipes, conduits and exposed circuitry on the walls. It is divided into 3 primary areas:

• Gravity Centrifuge Access: A large chamber that holds the Gravity Centrifuge, a machine that holds the ship in high orbit over a planet.
• Fuel Storage: A large, very dark open area. It is separated into 2 sections by a mini-tram. This area feeds fuel into the engines. The area is rather high above the floor and is dominated by a large rotating ring of huge fuel cells and the main fuel line, and is by far the darkest area of the deck.
• Engine Room: A large room that displays the Fort Worth's immense engines on the ceiling, several hundred feet in diameter.

Flight Deck

Location of the main hangars where shuttles would enter and leave the Fort Worth. Contains a fully equipped departure/arrival lounge and has access to the cargo bay, allowing materials to be loaded into shuttles for transport. The Executive Shuttle Docking Bay connects to this, as well as the Cargo Bay. The Fort Worth has multiple docking bays situated all over the ship for shuttles of various sizes, ranging from the massive main hangar bay to smaller mining shuttle bays such as Docking Bay 17.

Hydroponics Deck

The Fort Worth's internal farm which produces the food needed to feed the many workers aboard the ship as well as providing a sustainable production of oxygen. It is typically maintained by horticulturists, which monitors the production levels of the food. A massive area, it spans the entire top portion of the Fort Worth's two cargo towers and is divided into 2 primary sections: the multi-level Vegetation Growth Chambers and the centrally located cylindrical Food Storage chamber. Directly before food storage is the air quality control and ventilation system, the Station features a large Hologram screen and controls that indicate air production, ventilation, and filtration systems.

Maintenance Deck

The Maintenance Deck is where maintenance is performed on shuttles and maintenance shuttles are docked. These hangers can be manually opened in the event of their Control Rooms sustaining damage.

Medical Ward

The Medical Ward of the Fort Worth contains various facilities including: Zero-Gravity Therapy, an Intensive Care Unit, Imaging and Diagnostics, Biolab, Cryo-Lab, Chemical Lab, Morgue and also various research areas and offices of the scientists aboard the ship. The deck is serviced by two trams: one at the main entrance, and one at the Cryo Storage entrance. The Medical Deck is divided into three areas: Emergency Ward, Imaging and Diagnostics and the Research Wing. The Attending Physician's office is located in the Research Wing's ground floor, while the ICU Head's is located in the Emergency Ward. The medical deck is one of the brightest areas on the ship with virtually all lighting in the medical areas being a vivid white.

Mining Deck

The heart of the Fort Worth, this is where asteroids and planet fragments are broken apart and melted for valuable minerals. A 4-level deck, it is by far the largest deck on the Fort Worth. Asteroids are brought in via an entrance on the third level and held in place by gravity tethers.

Ore Storage Deck

Directly below the Hydroponics Deck, this deck is where valuable ore extracted from operations on the Mining Deck was stored in large containment cylinders. The deck is basically a gigantic room in zero gravity.

Subsections and Systems

• Asteroid Defense System: A large fixed Array of Mass Drivers used on board many Colossal-Class Miners. Its primary goal is to track and destroy asteroids automatically, preventing damaging collisions with the ship. However, in the event that a part of the ADS goes offline, a crew member will have to manually control an offline ADS Cannon.

• Computer Core: The Computer Core is the central processing area for the Fort Worth's databanks. It allows remote locking and unlocking of various areas, remote disengaging of the ship's engines and access to the ship's library.

• Decontaminations Chambers: These chambers can be found throughout the ship protecting important areas such as the Gravity Centrifuge on the Engineering Deck. Their purpose is to cleanse workers of any bacteria and small debris that could contaminate these areas.

• Emergency Shuttles: Due to the Fort Worth's task as a mining ship and its frequent danger, the ship is equipped with a large compliment of escape shuttles which could be used to evacuate the ship in an emergency. The escape shuttles count numbers at 50, with a capacity of 30 each in order to accommodate the ship's crew of 1,500. The Fort Worth also carries a small compliment of mining shuttles for transportation.

• Filtration Systems: These systems transport all of the ship's the waste to the Water Treatment Facility. They are made up of large, interconnected chambers and pipes which run under various decks, such as the Medical Ward and Hydroponics Deck. On the ceiling of these pipes are smaller pipes where new waste is dropped in and extraction fans used to remove the fumes making the air breathable. These pipes also contain elevated walkways with doors to allow access without the need to come in contact with the waste.

• Quarantine System: Important areas on the Fort Worth are equipped with sensors that detect contaminants. When one or more of these is detected, the area is locked down until the threat is removed.

• Tram System: Due to the Fort Worth's size, a tram system has been built into the ship, allowing fast and easy access to each of the ship's sections. However, the system is single rail, so a single damaged tram will prevent travel throughout the ship. The floor of the tram's subway can be traversed, however.

Security

The Security Services of the Starship Fort Worth (S.S.S.F.W., or jokingly, SS) is the Fort Worth's policing/security force, responsible for maintaining order and peace throughout the ship.

Ranks

• Chief of Security
• Sergeant
• Officer
• Cadet

See Also

• Colossal-Class Miner
• Allied States Space Authority