Big Wreck - Main Engineering

Set above the main engines, the main engineering deck controls the main fuel lines from the fuel tanks to the engines, complete with purification systems. While radioactive from the leaking fission engine, the lead lined floors have kept the engineering deck in a serviceable if dangerous for too long condition. A standard vacc suit will protect a user for about an hour, and it will need to be decontaminated after use (most Imperial standard airlocks do contain devices to get rid of contaminations; radioactivity however will usually destroy the suits or make them unusable if exposed for too long).

The main elevator core is surrounded by the two fuel purification stations and four engineering sections. This area also has access to the engines via iris valves set in the floor; however, the radiation in the engines will prove fatal in a short amount of time.

Some questions about the Big Wreck may be answered via the service logs, or maintenance manuals. So far no one knows where or even when this huge craft is from. It has sub-light engines only. The engines are no longer functioning, but during scans of the exterior of the craft does not indicate a prolonged journey - there is a lack of the micro-fractures and hull decomposition that an extended near-C flight should show. The questions of how it got here and how long it has been here are still unanswered.

There are exterior airlocks that will still work. The atmosphere is dangerous and it is not advised to remove helmets or suits. But this is one of the ways to access the giant craft. The doors will require a manual process and may need some engineering work to open. Power is still available and indicators will show when air pressure is equalized.

There will be bodies in some of the offices. They appear human and have suffered decay from having an atmosphere. The air is not circulating - dust has settled everywhere. There are also boot prints disturbing the dust from one of the airlocks and leading straight to the main elevator core.

One of the engineering stations has a female slumped over what appears to be a console. The writing is not a language anyone can read but there is a plastic-encased operating manual next to her, a thick binder with thousands of pages. The interior of the covers appears to be some sort of screen and there are what appear to be connectors along the bottom edge. If there any historians with the group, they may recognize the language as isiZulu: this is one of the colonization ships from South Africa from the early 24th century. I am still thinking on how to stick a Kafar or more in here...perhaps there are blood streaks on the walls.

There could also be alarms to be triggered as well as mutated space rats. We've had space rats before.

I also need to organize things a bit more. In the elevator core only 1 cargo elevator remains in operational condition. a couple of the personal elevators also work, and there are always stairs. A lot of stairs...in the spaces between decks there are just the elevator shafts and the stair case: the other areas are various conduits and wiring accessible behind service panels. Perhaps enough space to actually fit in, as well as the traditional Jeffries tubes.