Defender class Planetoid Monitor
Defender class Planetoid Monitor | |
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Distant Fringe vessel. | |
Type: HMP Monitor | |
Category | BCS |
Size | 9,000 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Buffered Planetoid Hull |
Streamlining | Unstreamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–9 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/3 fib |
Jump | J-0 |
Maneuver | 6 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 90 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 0 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 87 |
Officers | 18 |
Enlisted | 69 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 130.0 Tons |
Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Distant Fringe |
Year Operational | Unknown. |
Price | |
Cost | MCr6,510.426 (base) MCr5,214.245 |
Architect fee | MCrAde Stewart |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | Not applicable. |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | No |
Source | |
Also see | Planetoid Monitor |
Canon | Published, fan design |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Stewart |
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance. |
The Defender class Planetoid Monitor is a warship.
- It is a paramilitary ship and an Asteroid Monitor.
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
- Please also see AAB article: Warships of the Distant Fringe.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
No information yet available.
- The vessel is a TL-9 design.
Image Repository[edit]
No information yet available.
General Description & Deck Plans[edit]
No information yet available.
Basic Ship Characteristics[edit]
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 subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary. [1]
Basic Ship Characteristics [2] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage / Hull | The Planetoid Monitor is constructed using a 9,000 dTon buffered planetoid hull that is fusion-tunneled internally and fusion-sculpted externally. It is unstreamlined and has no capability to perform atmospheric operations.
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2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: 87
x11 Command, x32 Engineering, x16 Gunners, and x27 Service, of which 5 double up as flight crew for the vessel's intrinsic subcraft as required. In addition, the vessel carries x1 Medic. Accommodations There are x55 Staterooms.
There are x20 Low Berths, primarily used to hold casualties. They are tended by the vessel's Medic. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance / Engineering | The vessel mounts a Maneuver-6 drive and a Power Plant-7, giving performance of 6-G acceleration and producing 630 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 4 and an emergency agility of 6. The internal fuel tankage gives the power plant 4 weeks duration.
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4. | Main Section / Electronics | Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/3fib Computer: the vessel has a backup Model/3fib Computer.
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5. | Hardpoints | x90 hardpoints. |
6. | Armament / Weaponry | The normal weapons fit-out for a Defender class is:
x1 100-ton Bay mounting a Particle Accelerator x3 100-ton Bays mounting heavy Missile launchers.
x20 triple Beam Laser turrets, typically grouped into four batteries each of 5 linked turrets. |
7. | Defenses | The hull is naturally armored and is also plated, braced and structurally reinforced, giving it an armor rating of 7.
x30 triple Sandcaster turrets, typically grouped into three batteries each of 10 linked turrets. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems. |
8. | Craft | Flight Section
The subcraft are housed in dedicated hangers: the hangers can be sealed and have a total volume of 78 dTons. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 630 dTons.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel, including its subcraft, is MCr6,510.426. |
11. | Construction Time | 157 weeks (39 months) as standard.
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12. | Remarks | Standard cargo capacity amounts to 130 dTons.
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History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
No information yet available.
Distant Fringe Vessels[edit]
The Distant Fringe is said to be a far spinward-rimward area inhabited by colonists and refugees originating on Terra. The region is extremely isolated, separated from the rest of Charted Space by vast, almost uncrossable rifts that were once broached by a system of calibration Points and the use of tankers. Those few academics within Charted Space who have found references to the Distant Fringe regard it as little more than a tall tale. Likewise, many of the inhabitants of the Distant Fringe believe the existence of Charted Space to be mythical.[3]
Vessels originating within the Distant Fringe are very rarely encountered outside of the region. However, misjumps do occur and anomalies with bizarre spacetime and Jumpspace effects exist: as such, craft of this type are not entirely unknown within Charted Space.[4]
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]
Each vessel within the class is named by the government of the state that produces it. They generally draw on traditional naming protocols and it is not uncommon for a historical class name to be reused.
- Individual vessels within the class are issued specific serial numbers and transponder codes.
- Naming a ship is considered a serious affair and is generally accompanied by a traditional ceremony, usually pouring a local beverage over the bows of the craft. Starfarers tend to be superstitious folk and a ship with a frivolous name is considered "unlucky".
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
Paramilitary Ship - Defensive Ship - Planetoid Monitor:
- Type HMP class Planetoid Monitor
- Defender class Planetoid Monitor
- Empress Troyhune class Planetoid Monitor
- Guardian class Asteroid Monitor
- Hukkert class Monitor
- Methuselah class System Defense Monitor
- Obsidian class Asteroid Monitor
- Peset class Asteroid Monitor
- Porton class Asteroid Monitor
- Quesha FR-6 class Buffered Asteroid Monitor
- Sable class Heavy System Defense Monitor
- SH2K Frost G class Medium Asteroid Monitor
- SH7K Fromaag class Heavy Asteroid Monitor
- Temarn class Asteroid Monitor
- Type M2M class Planetoid Battle Station
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- 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 of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak