TMS Earthrise
The Terran Merchant Ship Earthrise is Reese Eddings's private vessel, which she runs on private trading missions throughout the Alliance, mostly in the Neighborhood.
Specifications
A squat ovoid, the ship can land on planets with atmosphere using landing stilts that it can balance on. There's a ramp in its belly for crew to use to enter/exit the ship once it's on the ground. It has both in-systems and Well drive. Its multiple levels (two? More than two?) are accessible via lift.
Compartments and Amenities
- The cramped bridge has: chairs with safety harnesses; an exterior sensor control panel; a pilot's console; an engineering display
- The captain's quarters is the only one with a private bathroom with shower (retrofitted); the rest of the crew shares a single bathroom. Crew quarters have door-announces that chime.
- It has a clinic (a compartment next to Kis'eh't's, modified by Kis'eh't with her lab equipment). This room has a 'low bench' suitable for a Glaseah to use.[1]
- The bathroom is 'further down the hall to the left' from the clinic. It's cramped and has a tiny mirror over the sink.[1]
- Has a galley with a kitchen and a larder.
- The cargo hold has five cat-12 cargo spindles, which are long cylindrical strength members twelve inches in diameter that can support Type-A and Type-B sized cargo bins. Each spindle can hold twelve, for a total of sixty bins. There are also cargo cranes (at least two) and a gantry. [1]
- Had one laser (for clearing debris).
Refits
Liolesa ("the mysterious benefactor") arranged for the refitting of the Earthrise six years prior to her contacting Reese for help with Hirianthial.[1]
- Engines (faster)
- Captain's Quarters (private bathroom)
Reese made a second set of upgrades on Harat-Sharii with the advance from the pirate job: she upgraded the sensors, power plant, and overhauled the air handlers.[2]
After Reese retired as captain, Fleet made repairs to the Earthrise while they were waiting in orbit around Escutcheon for the Moonsinger's re-assignment and they had the Earthrise in one of its bays. "Even the broken locks and blinky lights worked."[3]
So she walked the Earthrise from stem to stern. The echoing cargo holds with their spindles for the bins, waiting for something to haul. The narrow corridors with their metal mesh floors. The bridge, somnolent, all its boards glowing the subdued blue of a ship drowsing in parking orbit. She went through the crew quarters, finding them already empty: the rest of the ship’s former crew had had time to come up, but she hadn’t, not until now. She walked through the engineering deck, remembering the pirates crawling all over the machinery, looking for evidence of perfidy. She toured the galley and the mess, remembering apple pies and coffee and less satisfactory experiments that everyone had nevertheless eaten. She checked on Kis’eh’t’s lab/clinic, brushing her fingers across the dents in the bulkhead where the equipment had been bolted.[3]
Service History
How long did Reese have it? Did she buy it new? I think I mentioned this at some point in Earthrise. The 'lonely years' that it was only her and Allacazam. Hired Kis'eh't 3 months after the twins and Bryer a month after and that was about 3 years now She had Allakazam 7 years now [4]
Crew
First Crew
Most of the crew of the Earthrise were hired 3 years before the start of the book Earthrise. Reese hired the twins (Sascha and Irine) first, then Kis'eh't 3 months later and Bryer 1 month after that. [1] The exception to this is Allacazam who had been with Reese for 7 years when Reese's story begins.
Second Crew
- Ra'aila, Clan Flait, Captain: aggressive. Red and burnt orange and white. Hair in a braid.
- Danica Blakesley, First Mate: Bicolor.
- Merina York, Pilot: Short girl with dreads (asymmetrically bound back) and tattoos on the insides of her ears. Siamese-colored.
- Leonid (Leon, Lyonya, Lyonechka, Leo, Lev), Purser: So gay. Puma intrarace. Sparkly and glittery.
- Prudence MakesShift, Healer: Faun-colored fur with chestnut-brown wavy hair she wears back in a loose bun.
- Saul Ferry, Mechanic
- Erynne Seyvald, Engineer: Ginger/gold. Wild curls. Likes parties.
- Surela, supercargo
