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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1318805" data-attributes="member: 835">OOC: I'll repost the map from the other thread. You are in the Passenger Lounge, from which 4 corridors exit. The guards are in different hallways - Trelene's door is starboard, while Vyrkris's room is aft, so they can't see each other OOC: The deep, dark secret of interstellar cruising is that there is little hope of survival in case of a full blown emergency, as no ship this size carries enough life boats to let every passenger escape in case of a catastrophic emergency - it is simply not economical given the volume that would be required. The fuel for the life boats alone would take up more space than the passengers themselves. Instead the life boat capacity must be enough to ferry the entire passenger load of the liner to a safe ship or planet "within a reasonable timeframe." In evacuations near planets (the only evacuations with any real hope of success, afterall, unless each boat is to have jump drive), Title 1 of the Imperial Law ensures that every ship within communications range will assist the ship in distress, speeding up the process considerably. Still however, it is a process that generally takes hours, not minutes, and it is one the crew must control for order to be maintained. According to the Imperium-required safety vid, shown to everyone at the beginning of the journey, in case of an emergency, passengers should notify the nearest crew member, who will advise the passenger on the proper course of action. If warranted, the crew will take passengers, in groups identified on the passenger's ticket, (these correspond suspiciously to the cost of the ticket purchased, in most cases, including this one) down the lifts (located within the crew section of the ship) to the cargo bay and the waiting life boats.  Edit:  Actually, you remember seeing such emergency signs as you mentioned, but only within the crew-restricted portions of the ship.  Best not to worry the passengers with such things, you guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Short answer: the lifts down to the life boat hangar are beyond the open security door; the one people who took the engineering tour took down there is just off the Crew Lounge.  Actually, it won't let me upload the picture in two places - the map of the mid deck is a ways down on thid page:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65776&page=11&pp=25" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65776&page=11&pp=25</a></blockquote>

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