Exile-And Glory
“She carried twice that number plus eight crew. Most of the passengers were already aboard; Wayfarer was crowded. No more than half the passengers had ever been into space before, and everyone drifted through the ship in total confusion.The internal space was constructed in a series of circular decks. Each deck had an eight-foot hole in its center, so that from the forward end, just aft of the separately enclosed control cabin, Kevin could look all the way aft to the stern bulkhead. Although the...re was a long and rather flimsy-appearing steel ladder stretching from aft to forward bulkhead, no one used it. Passengers and crew dived from deck to deck in the null-gravity conditions of orbit. Most of the passengers weren't very good at it yet.A harried crewman in red coveralls punched Kevin's name into a console. "F-12," he said."If that's supposed to mean something, it doesn't," Kevin said."F deck," the crewman said "A deck is the bridge. B is the wardroom. C, D, and E are the three aft of that.MoreLess
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