Capsule:
These deckplans were drawn with the "Paint" program that comes with "Windows 95/98".
For complete stats of this ship, please refer to the "Pirates and Privateers" sourcebook or see the
STAR WARS Adventure Journal #10 page 275. The only official picture of this ship is a small thumbnail
silhouette found in P&P. This ship wasn't detailed in the WEG sourcebook "Stock Ships" either. I
decided to do this ship because, silhouettes are useless in boarding encounters. How will you know
where your characters are and where the pirates are onboard your ship without a good deck plan?
There are many features on the Nella 342 that should be explained. First is the
power core, it's located at the ship's center. Slightly larger cores can be installed but will
cause problems due to the tight fit (+1D added to repair difficulty). Behind the power core is
the hyperdrive, and behind the hyperdrive are the ion engines. Entering the Nella 342 is done
through the underbelly elevator, the starboard aft docking ring, the forward cargo door or the
upper hatch which lowers passengers to the main deck. The ship's shield projectors are located
on the extreme ends of the port and starboard hull projections. The sensors are all located
along the port edge of the ship.
The Nella has maintenance crawlspaces above and below the main deck. These
crawlspaces were designed with droids in mind and are tight hot and very uncomfortable for humans
to use. The lower crawlspace contains the ship's repulsor lifts, consumables storage tanks,
artificial gravity generators, shield generators, and landing gear assemblies. The upper crawlspace
contains life support systems, the upper hatch airlock equipment, escape pod ejection systems, and
the ion drive exhaust system. Crawlspaces can be accessed through the various floor and ceiling
gratings. The escape pods are one-man models which launch up and exit the ship via blow-away hatches
on the ship's dorsal hull (see PES-550 for more information).
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