Starfinder Flip-Mat: "Starship: The Sunrise Maiden" [RPG]

NO SPOILERS

Starship: The Sunrise Maiden is (I think) the first oversized flip-mat in the Starfinder line, akin to the "Bigger" flip-mats in the Pathfinder line.  The Sunrise Maiden is a pretty cool ship that's perfectly-sized for an adventuring party, and could be used as a stand-in for most PC ships in any science-fiction campaign.

One side of the flip-mat shows the port side of the ship from above as the vessel is at rest in a docking bay.  You could use this for a "Stormtroopers are setting up the E-Web while Han runs for the gangplank" scenario, or (with a little more imagination) any sort of EVA mission on the outer hull of the ship.  There's a lot of nice detail here.

The other side, probably the more important one, has the full interior of the vessel.  The flip-mat depicts everything you'd expect a ship of this size to have: the bridge, a couple of airlocks, a (fairly large) engine room, bathrooms, escape pods, two mostly empty cargo bays, a briefing room, toilets and showers, and enough beds for seven crewmembers (though there's only six escape pods--uh oh!).  There's also a "recreation suite," though I didn't realise that's what it was from the visual depiction.  Again, there's a lot of nice detail.  Although parties may modify their ships across the course of the campaign, I could see this being the setting for all sorts of encounters and, even apart from that, I think it's important for players to be able to visualise the place their PCs spend weeks and months on as they travel across the stars.  How much I would have loved to have something like this back when I ran Star Wars campaigns!

I will quibble over the title, as "Starship: The Sunrise Maiden" is clunky, and asymmetrical to other flip-mats in the line (i.e., we don't have a "Building: Hospital" or "Planet: Jungle World" flip-mat because we assume people can figure out what stuff is).  But that's my pet peeve, and shouldn't distract from a really good flip-mat.

SPOILERS FOR DEAD SUNS BOOK 1

The Sunrise Maiden is the vessel that PCs find at the end of Book 1 of the Dead Suns AP.  The flip-mat is an exact reproduction of the ship's layout depicted on the inside back cover of that volume.  In addition, the other side (showing the exterior of the ship in a docking bay) is perfect for the big penultimate encounter of that chapter.  So in other words, GMs running Dead Suns should jump at the chance to get this flip-mat.  We've been using it in the Dead Suns campaign I've been playing in, and it's come in quite handy on multiple occasions.