The Ships Locker

[phavoc]

How many people see the ship's locker being a single place where every random thing gets stored, or it's more of a concept that consists of multiple storage places around a ship?

I've always seen it as the latter. Ship suits, rescue balls and items of the same ilk might be stored near the main airlock. A weapons locker holding some small arms and ammo might be located on the bridge or some other secure location.

But usually the description of it makes it sound like it's a single place where everything gets stuffed. The latest explanation in HG2 seems to lend itself to the same idea.

How do you see it?

 

[Vile]

Sure, having everything in its place makes more sense.

But a single room that is a sufficiently-advanced-to-seem-magical cornucopia of every imaginable almost-but-not-quite useful item in the known universe, a misbegotten bastard child of the Tardis and that wardrobe? That's way more fun. :mrgreen:

 

[Condottiere]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9FGC68YcwM

The basic one-tonne concept is only for the lower end of Adventure Class ships, as part of the standard bridge.

 

[-Daniel-]

I have always thought of it as a single room on smaller ships and several locations on larger ships or specialized ships. Example; the Safari ship has a "ships Locker" but it also has an armory. I had also never assumed "everything" was in it. Survival bubbles were in each stateroom in my thinking. The Ships Locker was a location for general equipment and items that needed to be locked up.

 

[wbnc]

I've always saw it as a couple of rooms, one large room...say the size of a stateroom full of the high end more expensive gear, EVA suits, firearms, survival gear. in lockers, and quick opening cases bolted to the wall. as well as pull up, and pull down containers in the floor and ceiling.

there would be smaller storage spaces though out the ship including suit lockers near airlocks, with emergency suits, tools, rope, etc. and Tool boxes in engineering, or work areas with contents more in line with maintaining the ship. and performing both electronic, and mechanical repairs.

I assume one larger room since some gear would need to be central located and secured at all times. but a lot of non vital gear would be scattered about the ship where it was more frequently needed. But firearms, and anything that might need to be protected from being banged around, or tampered with goes in the central locker as well as a small area for whoever is playing the role of quartersmaster.

and to ansewer the question before it is asked..the space is accounted for with an unwritten 10% rule, you can have unlisted rooms and cubby holes that are simply assumed to exist.

 

[Infojunky]

I have always seen it like it is on Maritime Ships..... On a really small ship it might be a closet/lazaret/box, but anything larger say scout boat on up it is a series of Lockers/cabinets what have you spaced around the appropriate areas of the ship.

 

[wbnc]

I have always seen it like it is on Maritime Ships..... On a really small ship it might be a closet/lazaret/box, but anything larger say scout boat on up it is a series of Lockers/cabinets what have you spaced around the appropriate areas of the ship.

On my brother-inn-laws work boat...a 90 foot version... we had limited space in the deck house. and below decks was worse. on that old tub the ships locker included spaces under our bunks, the passageways and any space below decks we could stuff things without tripping over them in the dark...and it's always pretty dim Below decks...

 

[Infojunky]

On my brother-inn-laws work boat...a 90 foot version... we had limited space in the deck house. and below decks was worse. on that old tub the ships locker included spaces under our bunks, the passageways and any space below decks we could stuff things without tripping over them in the dark...and it's always pretty dim Below decks...

Honestly that pretty much describes every working boat I have been on. On a certain Patrol Boat I was coxswain of my bunk was also the stowage for extra Life jackets, Nothing says a good night's sleep like gentle swell and a kapok pillow....

 

[wbnc]

On my brother-inn-laws work boat...a 90 foot version... we had limited space in the deck house. and below decks was worse. on that old tub the ships locker included spaces under our bunks, the passageways and any space below decks we could stuff things without tripping over them in the dark...and it's always pretty dim Below decks...

Honestly that pretty much describes every working boat I have been on. On a certain Patrol Boat I was coxswain of my bunk was also the stowage for extra Life jackets, Nothing says a good night's sleep like gentle swell and a kapok pillow....

I think there is an unwritten rule...empty space is wasted space...

Just be glad it wasn't the dirt laundry bin in your bunkroom.... ANYONE who has not experienced it should just trust me when I say, four guys working in 100% humidity, and 98 degree weather (above deck..104-110 below deck) can create a fun that should be banned as a crime against humanity.

I think thats why ships locker was never assigned tonnage...it was sort of understood that the locker contents were going to be shoved anywhere they could fit...with maybe a small cubb that has a door you can lock.

A bigger ship might have a dedicated area, or if our lucky an empty stateroom used for general storage.

 

[Condottiere]

You'd want the necessary tools for repair or maintenance in easy reach, so those would be positioned near the likely areas of employment.

But if most of the crew in a small starship congregate in or near the bridge, a lot of equipment might be centralized there.

 

[phavoc]

You'd want the necessary tools for repair or maintenance in easy reach, so those would be positioned near the likely areas of employment.

But if most of the crew in a small starship congregate in or near the bridge, a lot of equipment might be centralized there.

I would think you'd have things stuffed in convenient and logical places. So suits and things like that would be stored near your airlocks, arms in a restricted area, general supplies wherever you could find the place, etc.

On smaller ships (like a Scout) I could see all of that in one place, especially since it's a military ship with a very small crew. A free trader might store a lot of it's ships locker gear in the cargo bay, and just a few things on the crew/passenger deck. Larger ships would for sure store things all over the place due to their size and needs (not to mention you might store the same article in multiple places so you don't need to schlep from bow to stern for that spanner, plus you'd have multiples of some things that you'd want spread around - like rescue balls).

 

[Nobby-W]

I think it would be several things, including:

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  * Some rescue balls and probably vacc suits in every major pressurised compartment of the ship.
  * An armoury where the all important 4 shotguns, 2laser carbines and 2 snub pistols get stored. Storing PGMPs and tac missiles here is generally frowned upon.
  * Toolkits in the engineering section
  * First aid kits in every major compartment
  * Stowage for various items of equipment - communicators, torches, spikes, 10' poles etc.
  * Some vacc suits by the main airlock
  * A safe where money and valuables are kept by the purser
  * Perhaps a body pistol concealed in a hidden compartment somewhere in the captain's cabin.
  * Plus, a magical, inter-dimensional bag of holding that randomly contains items of adventuring equipment.

In addition, the party will all have their own personal effects.

 

[Condottiere]

A ship's locker has stuff that ship's crews would find useful when puttering around in their ship or dirtside, and the reason it probably is centralized is so that everyone knows where the stuff is, it can be accounted for, and unauthorized personnel can't get to it.