The Chelsea Boom is an outer-space cruise liner with three decks topped by a small piloting pod. The lowest deck is split in half, with one half housing the cruiser’s hydro-core and the other half serving as a shuttle hangar and maintenance center. The two middle decks each have a uniform design: a large room at the bow end and another large room at the stern. These rooms anchor five smaller rooms on the starboard side and five on the port side, with a wide hallway in between. All interior walls are constructed of soundproof fiberglass, and all floors are covered with Massage-O-Fiber carpeting. The individual rooms of each Stellar Propeller cruiser are equipped with Bopper Stopper gravity clamps to prevent passengers from bouncing around during Shimmy Shot. Otherwise, the rooms come with no other adornments, allowing the purchaser to decorate them as he/she/it sees fit. This also allows Galactic Motors to sell their cruisers at a substantially discounted rate.
THE CHELSEA BOOM FROM BOTTOM TO TOP
DECK FOUR
BOW HALF: This is the heart of every Stellar Propeller cruiser. Without this room, the vehicle is just an expensive display home. The central power unit is the hydro-core, which uses the raw elements of hydrogen and oxygen to operate the Coaster Toaster faster-than-light engine. The core is constantly replenished via conduits that carry excess water and drainage from the cruiser’s kitchen and bath and breaks it down into its elemental form. Conduits also connect to the toilets, which convert liquid waste into purified water.
STERN HALF: Dubbed the “Anger Hangar,” this room is sort of a cosmic garage equipped with GM standard bay doors that slip apart for the departure and arrival of smaller space vehicles. The Sweaters’ shuttle, the Jaunty, rests here, along with Smith’s Gang Banger cycle. A workbench and tool cabinets are along the starboard side. The Hangar walls are plastered with an array of road signs that Declan has managed to swipe over the years. Many of the signs come from Earth, but a few of them hail from other worlds visited by the band during their galactic tour.
DECK THREE
BOW END: This serves as a rather flimsy gym, with only a short-distance running track and a handful of Pseudo-san robotic weight machines. Due to their hectic touring schedule and all-around general slothfulness, this room is hardly ever used by the members of Comet Sweat.
STERN END: This room has been split in half by a sound-absorbing fiberglass partition. On the starboard side is a media room with an ultra-high-definition Pseudo-san holo-projector and hovering surround-sound speakers. There is also a mismatched couch and a loveseat, as well as a couple of beanbag chairs scattered about. During their rare downtimes, the Boom crew can often be found here enjoying holo-flicks and GalactiNet. The port side is where the band rehearses. Nicknamed “The Romper Room,” its walls, floor, and ceiling are lined with micro-sensors that automatically adjust the reverb of the sound within. This provides the Sweaters with a clear and precise indication of the tonal quality of their music every single time.
SIDE ROOMS: These rooms are mainly used for storage on the Boom. Since the Comet Sweat family consists of just five members and the occasional stray, it’s not often extra private quarters are needed. Klaashhh keeps his knitting supplies and stuffed animal collection in one of the rooms, and Smith maintains another room as a shrine/temple. Jett also keeps one as a place for quiet, solitary conference with the Goddess. She has an altar set up with all of the requisite ritual tools, as well as cabinets filled with oils, candles, crystals, and herbs for the occasional spell-casting.
DECK TWO
BOW END: Here we have the kitchen and dining room. The kitchen itself is modest, but the services are state-of-the-art Pseudo-san design. The dishwasher steams the dinnerware, silverware, and cookware and then sorts and stows it on the under-counter shelves that flank the machine. The self-regulating refrigerator keeps food and beverages at their optimal temperature while also keeping track of what items are almost empty and about to spoil. The cooking station boasts a rapid-bake oven and Neo-Nuke range. With this fusion-powered piece of machinery, whipping up fresh and tasty meals takes only a fraction of the time.
The dining area—aka, the “Noshin’ Nook”—retains a relaxing, old-fashioned atmosphere. The floor is blanketed with Super-Massage-O-Fiber rugs, and the walls are lined with special Tutaram paper whose pattern can be changed with a swipe of the hand. In the middle of the Nook stands a large oak table with matching chairs, which were inherited by Declan after his mother was killed in the Senate Assembly bombing. The overhead lighting is soft, and there are stereo speakers hovering in the corners of the ceiling.
STERN END: The Cha-Cha spa is more than just a bathroom—it’s an oasis to unburden oneself from stress and fatigue. The floor is tiled in cracked eggshell, with flecks of red and gold that coordinate with the crimson paper coating the walls. Two small changing booths flank the entrance to the Spa. Each is equipped with a hover-bench and a curtain for privacy.
Most of the room is taken up by a series of private bathing pools embedded in the floor along the back wall. Separated by an opaque partition, each of the pools is lined with a screen onto which relaxing holo-scenes can be projected. Digital coders inside wafer-thin speakers under the screens are programmed with soothing audio selections, while a sound-dampening chip inside the speakers prevents any noise from escaping while blocking out all exterior distraction. The pools feature a voice-activated water temperature regulator and a button-activated whirlpool feature. Soap, shampoo, and lotion can be dispensed from any of the spigots on the pool’s four corners. An alcove with individual waste extraction stalls is set up on left side of the pools. Each of the stalls is surrounded by soundproof fiberglass and topped with an Instink odor absorber. The mechanical toilets reconstitute liquid waste into purified water and fully disintegrate solid waste.
SIDE ROOMS: The ten smaller rooms on Deck Three make up Comet Sweat’s quarters. Each room has a window on the hull and a closet with rotating racks with inside and a Look-Sing Glass mirror that warbles a cheerful tune upon catching a sentient reflection.
The rooms are divvied up as follows (from bow to stern, starboard side):
Room 1
Unoccupied.
Room 2
Unoccupied.
Room 3
Declan and Jett’s room. It contains a queen-sized bed that’s never made, a vanity with another musical mirror, and a chest of drawers. Posters of classic new-wave and punk bands are taped to the walls, such as The Cramps, The Other Ones, and Rotten & Vicious.
Room 4
Unoccupied.
Room 5
Spitt’s room. Left relatively bare due to Spitt losing everything she owned in the Comet Eileen disaster, all it holds besides the closet is Declan and Jett’s old full-sized mattress with a spring poking through the middle.
(from bow to stern, port side)
Room 1
Klaashhh’s room. The Kaazbaaaran sleeps on a sanded and lacquered slab of granite. However, he keeps his t-shirts and shorts in a traditional wooden dresser. On top of the dresser sit his two favorite stuffed animals, Crotch Rottweiler and Mrs. Cougar, along with his trophies for knitting.
Room 2
Unoccupied.
Room 3
Unoccupied.
Room 4
Smith’s room. A tank-bed rests in the middle of the room. It’s affixed with a pair of hoses that drain the old water and replace it with fresh H2O. Smith also has his own personal mini-holo-projector in order to enjoy his special holo-vid collection. He also has an extra closet to store the gowns and lingerie he likes to wear while watching his vids.
Room 5
Unoccupied.
DECK 1
PILOTING POD: If the bottom deck is a Stellar Propeller cruiser’s heart, then the top deck is its brain. The piloting pod is where all control of the cruiser’s trajectory is maintained. A captain’s chair sits on a two-inch platform in the center of the pod, directly behind another set of chairs that face a pair of consoles. One console is for navigation, while the other is for steering. It is at the steering station where the Shimmy Shot starter can be found. Each station, as well as the captain’s station, is equipped with an in-console Vox system and a mini-holo-projector for beaming celestial and terrestrial maps.
Right after they bought it, Declan and Jett refitted every inch of the piloting pod with their unique anarchical touches, from the periwinkle paint coating the walls to the lilac shag carpeting the floor and from the animal-print slipcovers on the navigational consoles to the giant anarchy symbol spray painted above the front window. They replaced the standard captain’s chair with the driver’s seat of a Ford Thunderbird and plopped a faux, pink bearskin rug in front of it, while the chairs at navigation and steering were swapped out for a salmon-colored sofa in the shape of a pair of human lips. They also ripped out the standard Vox Station plating and installed an ancient switchboard, complete with an array of wires snaking in and out of a series of vertical plugs. Once they were done, they affectionately christened their new pod the “Disco Deck.”
At the back of the Deck, a bench folds out from the wall to provide extra seating. All of the benches and chairs on the Deck are supplied with seatbelts and harnesses for added safety during Shimmy Shot.