A few minutes later, Jake reached the front of the ship in the second control room. This secondary cockpit and operations center was less exposed than the initial room destroyed by the pirate invasion.
It was also much smaller. The place was designed like a bunker: narrow, austere, but very well defended. At the heart of Compartment A, this room was protected by multiple layers of armor and optimal security, but that was not all it had to offer.
The space monitoring relied entirely on the surveillance and detection systems in place. While the communications were disabled, the Titan Pearl was basically piloted blind.
The other major disadvantage was that this room was far from the hangars and rescue shuttles bordering the ship. In the event of a major incident compromising the integrity of the ship, the staff would be the least likely to escape.
