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decks also consist of two or more subsections communicating via various hatches, doors, and bulkheads. All decks have certain things in common, such as having several
Chemical Storage rooms that contains various chemical elements in their pure form needed for research of unfamiliar objects or security stations for obvious reasons.
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2 cargo bays with 2 connected sections, a shuttle bay, its contol room, the engine core, its coolant assemblies, the port and starboard nacelles, and control room. Under instruction by who appears to be Doctor Janice Polito, the player reengages the power and the engine core on this deck before using
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The ship has five main decks which are interconnected by a single elevator, although some of the decks have auxiliary maintenance connections such as the one between
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Systems administration, mess hall, offices, crew lounge, cold storage, command center, barracks, brig, fluid ops, power ops. SHODAN first speaks to the player in her true form on this deck, she instructs him to override several simulation units to shift control from XERXES over to SHODAN. To do
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is an experimental design which is the first human starship capable of faster-than-light travel due to its unique drives developed in main part by its chief engineer Marie
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vehicle, pinching off a bubble of space containing the ship" and propels the bubble at a velocity of at least 27.75 times the speed of light. A cutscene at the beginning of the game indicates it traveled 67 trillion miles in 5 months. The opening cutscene of System Shock 2 states that the
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Medical and science labs, R&D facilities, cryogenics, and some crew quarters. The player begins his time on the ship in this deck as he is revived from a cryo unit. He must evacuate the cryo recovery section as a radar dish comes loose and destroys a window. Vacuum shields prevent
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has over 1.8 billion flight, science, and security systems which were nearly all constructed by the TriOptimum
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depressurization. The player also sees their first enemies in this sector. The player will proceed into the
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