Planetoid Hull
A Planetoid Hull is a kind of ship structure, fuselage, chassis, or hull.
- Planetoid Hulls are used by Planetoid Vessels.
- It is a kind of Ship Equipment and a kind of Hull.
- Please also see: Mobile World
Description (Specifications)[edit]
A Planetoid Hull is a hull constructed from a small planetoid that has laser-tunneled interior for drives, crew, and payload. It is a relatively inexpensive hull with very strong structural properties. It is unsuited for most world landings.
Image Repository[edit]
- Planetoid Hulls are a cheap and common hull type.
- Planetoid Hull featuring a Modular Cutter sub-hull smallcraft
CBPUSAL Function Designation Streamlining Spectrum[edit]
The Imperial Ship Builders Association (ISBA) qualifies modern naval hulls across this spectrum:
- C. Cluster. An accumulation of compartments.
- B. Braced Cluster. Structured for higher acceleration.
- P. Planetoid. A hollowed nickel-iron asteroid.
- U. Unstreamlined. Protrusions increase drag.
- S. Streamlined. Cowlings and fairings decrease drag.
- A. Airframe. Winged for performance in atmosphere.
- L. Lifting Body. Radically streamlined lifting-surfaces.
Special Variant: Buffered Planetoid Hull[edit]
A Buffered Planetoid Hull is similar to a standard planetoid hull with the difference that extra bracing is installed allowing for stronger durability and better performance capabilities. They are common enough that they warrant their own hull category.
Special Variant: Icy Asteroid Hulls[edit]
Icy Asteroid Hulls are an exotic sort of planetoid hull with shortcomings considered by many to be less desirable than standard metallic meteors. Such hulls tend to lose mass depending on their proximity to a star. However, some sophont species have found ways to make the technology work. They are relatively rare and are considered a subclass of the planetoid hull classification.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Planetoid Hulls are defined by their use of a planetoid or asteroid as the primary hull structure. They typically make use of metallic meteors although other kinds of planetoids may be used.
Special Planetoid Vessels of Note[edit]
Legends of the Sky Raiders - Sky Raiders: During the early stages of the First Imperium the Loeskalth culture absorbed a great deal of science and technology indirectly from the Vilani and founded a small empire which embraced, at its height, most of their home subsector. [1]
About -4200, the Vilani consolidation destroyed the Loeskalth Empire and absorbed the civilization into the mainstream of Vilani culture. An aggressive and warlike race, the Loeskalth resisted but were ultimately overwhelmed. [2]
Recent evidence has shown that the last pocket of Loeskalth resistance built a large asteroid starship which set off on a sublight voyage across the Great Rift after the final Vilani triumph. The descendants of the refugees on this ship later became the so-called Sky Raiders. [3]
Selected Craft Using Planetoid Hulls[edit]
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References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- J. Andrew Keith. The Trail of the Sky Raiders (FASA, 1982), 23,53.
- Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 332.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ J. Andrew Keith. Fate of the Sky Raiders (FASA, 1982), 58.
- ↑ J. Andrew Keith. Fate of the Sky Raiders (FASA, 1982), 58,59.
- ↑ J. Andrew Keith. Fate of the Sky Raiders (FASA, 1982), 58,59.