I think one of the best ways to design deckplans is to have real
deckplans of actual ships to use as a reference.   Even though the
reference plans are for a seagoing, 20th-21st century ship, I think they
offer a good guideline to how various systems are laid out when there
are large crews.  The Star Trek approach to a bridge is fine if you have
a handful of bridge personnel and are in a rather fantasy setting set in
space.  I've much preferred the 2003 Battlestar Galactica approach to a
bridge; large, lots of workstations, lots of displays, etc.  That's a
lot closer to real world examples than Trek ever was, and given the
"hard, but easily malleable science" of Traveller, I think it's also
more appropriate.

The AHL bridge seems to support this.

But what about all those other systems that support the bridge or CIC? 
Communications, navigation, engineering, etc?  That's where using
existing designs as a roadmap can help.

The other night, by chance I had to look up the phrase "hot, straight,
and normal" and make sure I was using it in the right context.  I found
a website that confirmed it, and as I was reading the thread found a
link to another site, and that's where the gold mine is...

Want deck plans of USS Lexington?  How about USS New Jersey?  Or perhaps
a USCG buoy tender?  They're here.  Or perhaps manuals on how to do
certain tasks and how things work?  Yep, they're there.

Here's the primary site: https://maritime.org/doc/index.htm
And here are the deck plans: https://maritime.org/doc/plans/index.htm

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Kurt Feltenberger
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