The Xijulba

Description:
The upper-most deck consists of the bridge, droid control center/maintenance pit, and turret access. This deck is also crowned with a dual heavy laser turret, controlled remotely by the computer and, if necessary, given fire permission from the gunnery officer. The second deck opens up into the primary living space and reactors. The living area rings the reactor in an ovoid manner, with the lounge and galley located directly beneath the bridge. To the front of the lounge is the small armory and medical bay. The armory contains only a handful of lethal weaponry by default, being heavily stacked towards the non-lethal side preferred by Lee Ru's chosen profession. The medical bay contains an automated doctor system suitable for emergency first aid and moderate surgery, but for extreme injuries or anything requiring specialized equipment, the autodoc instead fires up one of the four cryogenic stasis pods for safe-keeping until a medical facility can be reached. The ship's two airlocks are to either side of the lounge, and the sub-light engines follow shortly behind those. At the rear of the second deck is the second half of the engineering section which is best optimized for quick repairs to that most vital of components: the hyperdrive. Sandwiched between the engineering compartment and the lounge is a small but well-equipped manufacturing plant for making spare parts and computer equipment when necessary. All of the passenger staterooms have had the internal door panels removed and the gap welded shut. The relative comforts of the quarters remain, but they lack food processing. In addition, despite being somewhat luxurious, the various comforts present in these staterooms are almost completely useless for any sort of escape attempt. The bed, desk, and chair are all large panels of durasteel welded to the deck plating, the transparisteel viewports are thick enough to resist anything shy of a direct hit from a turbolaser, and even the various fanciful accoutrements in the refresher are either welded in place or utterly unsuitable for any kind of offensive action. The lowest deck contains the only remaining portion of the cargo hold, which contains two hundred ninety-eight cubic meters of storage space, and the entry ramp at the front. The ramp itself is sufficiently well armored to withstand most hand-held weaponry (the exception being exclusively shoulder-mounted armor-piercing munitions), and the clam-shell like doors provide substantially more protection on either side. Finally, the second dual heavy laser cannon turret is mounted on the ventral surface. Like the other turret, this one has no manual controls and must be controlled remotely.

The airlocks are both trapped in a rather unique manner. If the proper authorization codes are not given, or it is triggered from the bridge, the floor of the airlock (actually a cleverly disguised, sliding pressure door) slides open and the atmosphere distributes itself outward into a faux room made from particle shielding. The "room" itself is nearly four times as volume of the airlock, which prevents the atmosphere from concentrating enough to be breathable for most species. The airlock's floor then slides closed until brain activity in the target detects as an unconscious state, at which point the floor opens again and a small tractor beam retrieves the weightless target and returns them to the airlock for detainment. In an atmosphere, the particle shielding is forgone entirely, potentially dropping the victim the full five meters between the floor and the waiting ground below. Under water the particle shielding is also forgone, often to potentially disastrous consequences for the occupants considering the pressures and depths involved. The corridors have shield emitters and bulkheads every five meters, along with auto-targeting stun pistols carefully concealed in each of the bulkheads' sensor arrays. With the exception of the crew quarters, several of the Xijulba's internal humidifiers (which are located in the ceiling at 3 meter intervals) have been replaced with concealed Stokhli spray sticks, using the original parts for the humidifier as the camouflage. All of these systems can be deactivated by carrying a comlink or code cylinder with the appropriate codes or by an  over-ride built into the bridge. The pass codes themselves are several thousand digits of jibberish using an old Galactic Alliance encryption code, the message of which reads "We have been compromised. Initiate procedure Delta-Zeta-One."

History:
The Xijulba shares the hull, and many of the abilities, of the Star Home class Mon Calamari freighters. Built largely to operate in the outer rim, the Star Home design was intended to firmly cement the Mon Calamari and their ship-building prowess as one of the dominate ship-building companies. They failed. Despite having a heavily standardized design (almost blasphemous for many Mon Calamari Shipwrights of it's own accord), most people had little or no interest in an eighty-five meter long cargo ship with extensive shielding arrays and only minimal armaments, at least not one that would be difficult to upgrade. The design soon became infamous among aquatic species, however, as it's design not only allowed easy transit into their home environments without the need to stop at a dry space port, but the entire ship could also be flooded to provide a cheerfully damp environment. With the fall of the Gallactic Alliance came an increased rarity of these vessels, despite their cult following, and now many shadow ports are offering replacement parts or even heavily modified designs suitable for the more tumultuous times. The Xijulba itself is a rework of the design built on Manaan.