So I'm working on a star ship deck plan as a contest entry at the Cartographers' Guild with a theme of "create a map, any style, that has something to do with vampires." Since I've been building many star ship deck plans lately, I first thought create a ship taken over by a pack of vampires. Since I have tried to create a bio-mechanical living ship, I thought I'd do one... that's when the thought occurred to me what if the ship was alive, but now it's a vampire.
Whenever I get access to the Starfinder ship building rules, I will stat this ship up (and the 6 or so star ship deck plans I've already created and published).
So far I've only created the sleep pod chamber that resemble a humanoid sized maggot with a slice open at the top allowing to enter within. As a living ship these pods can imbue a "cold sleep" stasis as a cold sleep pod, and as a healing vessel for injured or the sick to get healed. As a vampiric ship, these pods can transform the interred into dhampire-like vampiric slaves to serve as crew and maintenance aboard the ship, however others are consumed of all organic material, blood and life energy to feed the ship.
I used a 3D modeling program to create and render the maggoty pods and veins of the first chamber.
You can visit my Facebook page, where I have this pod chamber created and posted.
Check for updated progress views of all the chambers and decks over the next week for so.
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It would make sense for such a ship to have a literal "Skeleton Crew", after the ship ate away their soft organic tissue for its own nourishment.
It could be some sort of long-distance "sleeper ship", which picks random passengers to feast on while the others wake up at their eventual destination - unless the ship goes rogue and just keeps eating them all, one at the time.
(Just a few ideas you may want to consider.)
I finished all 3 decks, created a 3D modeled hull with top view, side view and front view, plus I put all on the same sheet with 1 inch square grid on floor of all decks. So visit my Facebook page to see it all.