Tour - Bridge
Summary
Helm · Tactical · Ops · Command
EW console integrated with tactical
Additional Information
| Location | Fore | |
| Description | BRIDGE — COMPARTMENT DETAIL Compact, fore-to-aft. The bridge is small by any standard — on a Ju'day-class, this is a feature, not a flaw. Every station is within arm's reach of every other. There is no room for anyone on the bridge who doesn't belong there. MAIN VIEWSCREEN — FORWARD WALL Fixed, full-width. No holographics, no frills — a flat display that shows what's ahead and splits for tactical overlays, sensor feeds, or incoming hail imagery. Honest. Exactly what it is. COMMAND CHAIR CENTER · SLIGHTLY ELEVATED Center of the bridge on a low platform. Two arm panels — the nerve center of a ship this size. PORT ARM Ship-wide communications · crew alerts · hail management STARBOARD ARM Engineering monitoring · power allocation · drive status · the secondary EPS coupling readout the CO watches more than any other display without ever commenting on it publicly HELM / NAV / SENSORS 1 SEAT · FORWARD Single seat directly beneath the viewscreen. One operator, three functions — helm, navigation, and sensors run concurrently. Console layout: sensors left panel, nav plotting center, helm controls right, and forward. The sensor suite feeds directly to the TIC table aft and to the CO's chair arm panel, but the helm officer is the first set of eyes on anything the sensors pick up. On a crew trained in the Maquis tradition, the expectation is that the person in that seat doesn't need to be told twice what something means. TACTICAL CONSOLE STARBOARD · SINGLE STATION Weapons control, shield management, and the EW suite interface. The EW panel is not labeled as such on the console faceplate — it appears under a system designation that reads, in the ship's original configuration manifest, as "auxiliary sensor array management." Tactical officers new to the Ada Lovelace are briefed on what it actually does during their first watch. Not before. TIC — TACTICAL INFORMATION CENTER AFT OF COMMAND CHAIR · "THE POOL TABLE" A flat holographic display table showing real-time tactical plots, sector charts, boarding approach schematics, and whatever the CSIC feed is currently showing — which varies depending on who's aboard and what the mission actually is. The primary working surface for situations that require more than one person to view the same information simultaneously. The holographic communicator is integrated into the table's aft edge — a full holo-projector capable of rendering a life-sized communication partner standing at the table's end, or compressing to a bust display for standard hails. WHEN CRIS IS EMBARKED The table carries a second encrypted plot that the helm and tactical operators cannot see from their stations. This is not accidental. The CRIS Unit Commander runs it from the table directly. The CO is aware. No one else is briefed. |