- The largest passenger liner in charted space
- 182 crew
- 96 crew bunks on upper crew deck
- Crew lounge/kitchen
- Four officer staterooms, 54 crew bunks on main crew deck
- Large medical bay, 4 hospital rooms + 18 suspension coffins
- Large crew mess
- 31 staterooms, 6 suites on theater deck
- Two movie theaters, one live theater, snack bars
- Dining area, shops, offices, main airlock, fast food restaurant, conservatory on promenade deck
- Casino, formal dining, 80 staterooms, shuttle bays, and laundry on main deck
- Pool, gymnasium, 40 staterooms on pool deck
- 31 staterooms, 18 lifeboats in 4 bays, 220 dTon baggage area on dull deck
- Total passengers: ~300
- Basic maneuverability in realspace; minimal atmo/gravity capability
- It can make jump-2, and about twelve hexes between refueling
- Profitability requires higher-than-standard luxury tickets
- Priceless
The Daka Ai is a class-of-its-own passenger liner, operating through the Inukari Core and Sterhon sectors. It offers luxury cruises rather than simple transportation, and its schedule influences the social calendar on nearly every world on its route.
It circulates between Shingie and Sterhon, the longest J-2 route in charted space, a leisurely path that takes it two Capital years, one way. It is so influential that the Inukari parliament's biennial recess coincides with its arrival, marking the beginning of "Shingie Season." The Daka Ai and a flotilla of lesser ships and private yachts ferry the elite to Shingie where the ship stays for several weeks before returning to Capital for the new legislative term.
This is, of course, the translation of the King Richard of FASA fame, and uses its deck plans.