Aurora class Light Patrol Fighter

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Aurora class Light Patrol Fighter
Solomani vessel.
Type: FL Patrol Fighter
Category	Smallcraft
Size	19 Tons
Hull Configuration	Needle Hull
Streamlining	Airframe Hull
Tech Level	TL–10
Engineering
Computer	Model/2
Jump	Jump-0
Maneuver	6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Offensive	Missiles
Defensive	0
Accommodations
Staterooms	1
Personnel
Crew	1
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo Hold	0.15 Tons
Fuel tank	2.28 Tons
Construction
Origin	Bain Defense Squadron
Price
Cost	MCr44.740
Cost in Quantity	MCr35.792
Architect fees	MCr0.447
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	FL-1A60
Universal Ship Profile	FL-0106C21-000000-00002-0
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	Yes
Source
Also see	Spaceplane
Canon	Unpublished, non-canon design
Designer	Ronald B. Kline Jr.
Design System	High Guard
Era	Milieu 1116
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Aurora class Light Patrol Fighter is a combatant smallcraft and a spaceplane.

• The vessel is a TL-10 design.
• It is a military ship and a Light Fighter.

Description (Specifications)

The Aurora class Light Patrol Fighter was designed for service with the Bain Defense Squadron, the space force of Bain, a world lying in Spica Sector and a member of the Solomani Confederation. The Aurora is a reliable craft that is typically assigned to formations that carry out secondary duties such as routine patrols and customs inspections. The hull is built in a sleek, streamlined needle configuration and has good handling characteristics in atmospheres. It has excellent acceleration and agility. There is no bridge and the performance of the computer suffers as a result, but there is a small stateroom that affords more endurance and a better mission duration than the related Hornet class Fighter, which it regularly serves alongside.

It is considered to have an inferior weapons package. It has no subcraft and a minimal crew of one sophont.

Image Repository

An Aurora class Fighter.

General Description & Deck Plans

No information yet available.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (of ten craft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (thousands of tons) when necessary.

Basic Ship Characteristics
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage / Hull	The Aurora class is constructed using a 19 Ton hull built in a needle configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving excellent atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by its onboard gravitic systems. The craft does not have an airlock: if the cockpit is opened life support integrity is lost. The vessel has a sturdy retractable wheeled undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: x1 Officer (the pilot). Accommodations There is one small Stateroom. This cramped and awkwardly laid-out space, located behind and below the cockpit, is accessed by a hatch and contains a fresher, a galley, and a bunk. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Individual sections of the hull can be sealed off. There is an emergency locker.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Maneuver-6 drive and a Power Plant-12, giving performance of 6-G acceleration. The ship has an Agility rating of 6. The internal fuel tankage gives the power plant 4 weeks duration. The engineering section is controlled by the pilot. The machinery is not accessible.
4.	Electronics	There is a cockpit containing a pilot's acceleration couch. Adjacent to the cockpit is a Model/2 computer that functions as a Model/1 due to the lack of a bridge: No backup computer is installed. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a standard sensor array, and has an avionics suite. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command. It is equipped with a sophisticated ECM package.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint. The listed battery is the standard configuration for the class. Alternative weapons systems may be installed for specific missions.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for an Aurora class is: x3 fixed missile racks, firing as a single battery. Each missile rack mounts x3 standard Anti-Shipping Missiles.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft	The vessel carries no subcraft.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 2.28 Tons. The hull has integral fuel scoops. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr44.74 Architects Fee: MCr0.447 If multiple examples of the design are ordered all of the ships in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price per unit to MCr35.792.
11.	Construction Time	24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard. Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12.	Comments	Standard cargo capacity amounts to 0.15 Tons: it functions as a magazine for additional missiles. Typically x12 additional missiles are carried.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Aurora class Light Patrol Fighter serves with the Bain Defense Squadron, the space force of Bain, a Solomani world lying in Spica Sector. They are occasionally called upon for Federation and Confederation service. It operates alongside the Hornet, Constellation and Retaliator classes of Fighters. Overall, the Aurora is considered to be a forgiving vessel and is generally where newly qualified pilots start their careers. Members of the class are carried aboard Bengal class Carriers.

The Aurora mounts the locally designed and manufactured Misery Blue class Anti-Shipping Missile. The warhead is considered underpowered, the weapon system as a whole barely passed its proofing trials, and the design is prone to problems with its guidance systems. A number of examples of the Aurora class have been sold to neighboring worlds: they are generally refitted with standard Solomani weapons packages.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Smallcraft - Fighter:

• Type F class Fighter
  • Aurora class Light Patrol Fighter
  • Hornet class Medium Fighter

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science