The Beast

• Size of a small moon (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
  • 50 times larger than a Sovereign-class starship (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
• Spherical, encircled with two perpendicular rings (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
  • Rings opaque from outside, transparent from within (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
• Massive recreational ship/station (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
• 104 decks, organized as nested spheres around a drive core (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
  • Deck identifiers divided into colored sections, each subdivided into numbered segments
  • Decks 1-89 passenger berthing and facilities (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
  • Decks 90-104 devoted to ship operations and crew (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
• Central drive core null-gravity sphere surrounded by array of black hole drives (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
  • Null-grav core contributed to ship stability, drive functionality (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
• Complement: hundreds of thousands (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
• Odd shield technology; ablative energy field with fluidic properties (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")
• Environmental conditions
  • Internal gravity at 0.93g (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the

Beast")

• • Slightly higher oxygen levels than class M standard (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of the Beast")