SNG commercial cargo – T-class derivative, Bergen build cycle
A commercial cargo hull that stopped being a ship without ever ceasing to be one. An auxiliary-stack failure on 28 April put her cabin power onto emergency inside six hours; her crew assessed the situation and decided to stay aboard, and were still there six weeks later with the galley panel up and the lead engineer's gloves clean enough to clip back on. She is drawn here as the sister hull she is.
The level a boarding party walks, forward to aft, and the only one canon describes.
Cycles in about three minutes: opened 08:24, closed 08:27 with three people inside. The dock-side approach protocol is observed at the threshold.
Where the ship's own people meet whoever has come aboard. A bulkhead to lean on.
⭐⭐ THE ONE FULLY-STATED POSITION IN THE SHIP, and it is stated by comparison: second compartment forward, port side, exactly where her sister's is. Warmer than the companionway. Marek brought the panel up for the meal, and the crew ate there six weeks into conserved rations.
Cabin power is a distinct circuit from the emergency lighting, and it was the first thing lost.
The spine of the walk. Held at dim emergency lighting for six weeks; deck plates cold under the boot, and the ambient hum absent — the still feel of a ship that has stopped being a ship for long enough that her crew have learned to walk her without the cues a working ship gives.
Carries at least one observation berth, and it is the reason one casualty transfers to the Pedersen that evening rather than taking a temporary berth.
One of the three places her people are accounted for during the layover: at the slip, at the load-bay, at the dockside.
⚠ THE CASUALTY. Failed on 28 April 2155; cabin power was down to emergency within six hours. Everything else on this sheet is a consequence of this compartment.
⚠ Not described aboard the Margin. Placed from the sister hull, because that is what the book says she is.
Key
Grade of every figure on these sheets
Canon fixes the mass, the frame run and the hull's age directly. The length follows from the frames; the beam is the drawing's own decision, bounded by what the books rule out. Each figure says which it is.
Length overall
142 m
derivedBergen Limit, chapter 7 — 'the T-class derivative the Pedersen was built on, same hull two years apart on the Bergen build cycle'; dimensions from NV Karl Vidar Pedersen
⭐ THE SHEET'S WHOLE METHOD, AND THE BOOK STATES IT. She is the same hull as the Karl Vidar Pedersen, two years apart on one build cycle — so her arrangement is not guessed, it is her sister's. Where the book says the two diverge, this sheet diverges; everywhere else it does not invent a difference that canon never claimed.
Beam
28 m
derivedSister hull: NV Karl Vidar Pedersen, 142 m × 28 m
Mass
4200 t
derivedSister hull, 4,200 t
Six weeks on conserved power
Bergen Limit, chapters 6 and 7
None
Sister hull: NV Karl Vidar Pedersen, armament none; class-and-era tier T2
The books state distances aboard this ship. The drawing has to produce the same ones or it is wrong — so it is made to, and the working is shown. These run again on every build; a compartment moved by a metre fails them.
“The galley is the second compartment forward, port side” Bergen Limit, chapter 7
Counting compartments forward on the port side: AM-01 outer airlock is the first volume entered, AM-03 galley is the second compartment forward and is banded port. Matches the stated position exactly, and it is the position that tells the boarding party they already know this ship.
“She is the same hull as the Karl Vidar Pedersen, two years apart” Bergen Limit, chapter 7; vessels registry
284 frames at 500 mm = 142.0 m, the sister hull's published length; beam 28 m and 4,200 t taken from the same record. The Pedersen was commissioned 2127 and the Margin ~2137 — ⚠ that is TEN years, not two, so 'two years apart on the Bergen build cycle' is read as the build cycle rather than the commissioning dates. Recorded as an open item rather than silently reconciled.
“The airlock cycle runs about three minutes” Bergen Limit, chapter 6
Opened 08:24, closed 08:27 with three people inside. Three minutes, stated as clock times rather than as a duration.
A blueprint that answered everything would be inventing. These are the things canon has not fixed and this sheet deliberately leaves for a book to claim.
