The Beast
- Hlangry recreational cruise vessel (SCE Short Story: "War Stories, Book 1")
- Original name unknown; "The Beast" colloquial term applies by SCE (SCE Short Story: "The Belly of 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")
- 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")