Sunday, May 23, 2010

G-9 ATLAS CONTAINER SHIP

G-9 Atlas Container Ship

The Atlas is a modular container ship common along the commercial shipping lanes. Essentially interstellar tugs, these powerful ships haul a number of individual cargo pods. This allows for easy delivery and pick-up, multiple stops that do not require landing, and the ability to swap cargo in deep space with other ships.

They are often used to haul bulk materials like water, ore and raw metals. Each cargo pod has its own separate environmental control system, meaning a container ship can haul items with radically different storage requirements. The cargo pods are attached to a modular frame. Container ships carrier one frame in normal operations, but two additional frames can be added behind the first, tripling the ship’s cargo capacity. The drawbacks are that the Atlas cannot transport passengers in the cargo pods, and the cargo within the pods are not accessible during flight operations.

These ships, frequently used in colonizing worlds and delivering military supplies, come equipped with one ion cannon turret for point defense.

Model: G-9 Atlas

Class: Container Freighter

Crew: Four, capable of carrying up to four more passengers.

M.D.C. by Location

Cargo Pods (varies) – 400 each

Frame – 800

Ion turret – 200

Engine pods (4) – 300 each

*Main body/crew compartment – 800

*Depleting the M.D.C. of the Main Body leaves the vessel a floating wreck. Reducing the main body to -200 M.D.C. causes the vessel to explode, doing 4D6x10 M.D. to everything within a 200-foot radius. There is one escape pod capable of sustaining four for 48 hours.

Speed

Maximum Sublight Speed: .2 C., or 20% of the speed of light

Maximum Acceleration\Deceleration Rate: 4 Gs per melee round

Maximum FTL: C-x183 (1/2 light year per day).

Maximum Atmospheric Maneuvering Speed: Mach 3. Can attain escape velocity on a full engine burn, but cannot maneuver.

Statistical Data

Height: 41 feet

Length: 212 feet

Width: 78 feet

Cargo: 400 tons (50 tons per cargo pod; a standard frame carries eight pods.)

Power Plant: Helium-3 Fusion Drive

FTL Drive: NMD-183 KV Stardrive

Range: 100 light years, or 200 days.

Market Cost: 700,000 credits new, 300,000 credits used.

Weapons

1. Ion Turret: This is a standard ion turret used against star fighters and missiles. It is remotely controlled by the co-pilot, has a 360-degree rotation and 45 degrees of elevation. While low on power, they have good range for a defense turret.

Primary Purpose: Defense

Mega-Damage: 2D6x10 M.D.

Effective Range: 10 miles

Rate of Fire: Four times per melee round.

Payload: Effectively unlimited.

Sensors: The Atlas has short-range sensors only, with a range of 100,000 miles. Long-range sensors are limited to passive optical (computer-controlled digital telescope) and are used primarily for navigation.

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

GENESIS 14

Mountains_spitzer_f800

ZAANUSSII

18

SOL PRIMUS

The Sun Gif

RIGELAN DEFENCE FORCE


BARUUL MERC

THE TWINS

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/h_et_planets_02.jpg

AZRIL

MATRIX 33

KELEV

STEINMAN CLASS B HEAVY HAULER

Steinman Class B Heavy Hauler

While it will never get the glory of a Crossbow, or even the quiet respect of a Starmaster, the Steinman is, arguably, the most important starship in human space. The vessel, over 70 years old, is quite simply the lynchpin in all interstellar human commerce, without which there could be no Protectorate.

Little more than a command module, a pair of engines and a cargo hold, the Steinman is a simple, but effective design that has kept colonies, core worlds, and the military supplied through peace, war, and across a hundred varying climates.

Not at all fast, and usually completely unarmed, the ship’s only defense is a powerful passive sensor system, and a negative mass drive with the shortest warm-up time of any non-military human ship in operation. Often traveling in convoys with a few escort vessels, a pack of Steinman under attack will quickly go to FTL using preset coordinates, so that there is a much shorter navigational computation time. An average ship takes 1D4 minutes to perform a jump, but a Steinman can usually do it in half that (most military ships have the same jump time).

With a crew of six, a modular cargo hold that can haul up to 500 tons, and a very reasonable price tag, it is the ship of choice for most large corporations, and is the transport of choice for the military as well. But even the military versions rarely have armaments. To keep space consumption to a minimum, the Steinman has a very small power plant. At most, it might be able to be fitted with a turret, but not a very powerful one. A much more reasonable option for arming the Steinman is to put missiles on it, which need no large power source.

Steinman haulers are most often encountered hauling food, raw materials, dry goods, water, large groups of people and military supplies. Pirates tend to avoid them because highly valuable cargo is much more likely to be on a smaller, better armed, light or medium transport. Some budget colony operations also use them to transport colonization supplies and colonists. By dividing the massive cargo bay into two decks filled with bunk beds, the Steinman can carry up to 600 passengers.

Model: C-98 Class B Heavy Hauler

Class: Freighter

Crew: 6, capable of carrying up to 600 passengers

M.D.C. by location

Sensor array – 150

Engine pods (2) – 400 each

*Main body – 2,000

Command module – 800

*Depleting the M.D.C. of the main body would disable the vessel, causing the command module to detach as a life pod. Steinmans rarely explode; usually only when they are carrying highly flammable or volatile cargo.

Speed

Maximum Sublight Speed: .2 C, or 20% of the speed of light

Maximum Acceleration/Deceleration Rate: 4 Gs per melee round

Maximum FTL: 365 x C, or one light year per day, half that speed for civilian models.

Top Atmospheric Manuevering Speed: Mach 1.5, but can attain escape velocity on a full engine burn (cannot maneuver)

Statistical Data

Height: 44 ft

Length: 210 ft

Width: 115 ft

Cargo: 500 tons

Power Plant: Fusion Reactor

FTL Drive: NMD-365 (military) or NMD-183 (Civilian)

Range: varies with supplies carried. Estimated it could travel 400 light years, but none has ever tried.

Market Cost: 2 million credits new, 1 million credits used.

Weapon Systems: None

Sensors: The Steinman has a powerful early-warning system that gives it mass and electromagnetic field sensors with a range of 1 million miles, and powerful short-range sensors with a 300,000-mile range.

Followers