Decks One and Two are totally given over to the Communications department of the ship. Detailed below are the main offices and control room on the deck. Area not included here are ships systems and storage areas used specificly for the communications group. Notice that the communication section is at the far top end of the ship, and that Sensors is at the far end of the ship. The design policy was to keep these two sections apart due to possible interference. Both Communications and Sensors is headed by one command level officer who answers to the Captain. Under this command level officer are two specilist officers, one directs all sensors systems and the other controlls all communications systems. Offices for these officers is in their specific area. The Command level officer has his ready room on deck 18. In the communication section there are two main areas: Primary Communications (P-Com or PrimeCom) and Short Range Communications (S-Com or ShortCom).
Primary Communications is located on Deck 1, and it houses the long range subspace transceiver, with a range of over 120 light years. Since the Nebulon-C was designed to serve as a command ship during missions, there are two communication arrays that allow contact between local traffic and long-range transceivers. Processing so many signals requires a powerful communications computer, and the Nebulon-C has the highly advanced TerexComm processor with mulit-channel sorting, high speed channel switching, and full encryption/decryption programming. This deck also boasts a holonet tranceiver and receiver, and a secure transmission room for critical and sensitive communications.
Short Range Communications is located on Deck 2 and is responsible for
all communications inside and immediately around the ship. This would
include the ships starfighters, all ships in the local system, and more
importantly any other capital warships or transports assigned to its fleet.
To do this the ship processes local light speed transmission from all ships
and assets it has in the local system. ShortCom uses its own antenna,
scrambles its own traffic, and is able to function without the any aid
from PrimCom. (This is important in the event that PrimCom ever gets
knocked out.) ShortCom also handles ship's intercom and maintenance.