Fringian Runabout

Runabout
Unpublished, non-canon fan design.
Type: U Smallcraft
Size	50 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[Conical Hull]]
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–7
Engineering
Computer	Model/1
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	1
Officers	1
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	28 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Distant Fringe
Year Operational	No information yet available.
Price
Cost	MCr22.200 (base) MCr17.760 (qty)
Architect fee	MCrAde Stewart
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	U-5A20
Images
Blueprint	No
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Reference	Ade Alagoric Stewart
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Book 5 High Guard

The Runabout is a smallcraft.

• It is a Civilian Ship and an Auxiliary.
• Please also see: Ships of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Specifications)

This is a generic class of smallcraft.

The Runabout is a low-tech vessel designed to ferry cargo and passengers between locations. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.

• The vessel is a TL-7 design.

Image Repository

Runabout.

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	The Runabout is constructed using a 50 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving improved atmospheric performance. Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. The vessel has an airlock. The vessel has a sturdy retractable wheeled undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: 1 x1 pilot. If the vessel is carried as a small craft, this individual serves as service crew aboard the parent vessel when not required for piloting duties. Accommodations There are 4 small staterooms. One typically serves as an office, galley or medical bay as necessary and contains a small fresher, while the remaining three are available to paying passengers. There are x8 passenger acceleration couches. The ship does not have grav plates or inertial compensators: all accessible areas of the ship are set up for zero-gee activity. The vessel has full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Sections of the ship can be isolated in the event of an emergency. There are multiple small emergency lockers.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts an extremely efficient rocket thrust-based Maneuver-2 drive and a Fission Power Plant-2, giving performance of 2-G acceleration and producing 1 Energy Point. The ship has an agility rating of 2. The internal fuel supply provides reaction mass for the Maneuver drive and is considered sufficient to support approximately 3 weeks of operations. Activity in significant gravity wells and atmospheres exponentially reduces the vessel's maneuver endurance. The Power Plant includes inherent fuel, consisting of a heavily shielded pellet of fissionable material. The engineering section is controlled from the cockpit. Access to the machinery can be gained via a sealable hatch.
4.	Electronics	The cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 computer: no backup computer is installed. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a basic sensor array, and has an Avionics suite. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint.
6.	Armament	The Runabout is generally unarmed.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. x1 triple Sandcaster turret, forming its own battery. 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 an internal fuel tank containing 1 dTon of reaction mass for the Drives. The hull is fitted with intrinsic fuel scoops. These are routed via pumps into the cargo hold, allowing storage tanks or collapsible fuel bladders to be filled. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr22.200. The ship is a standard design. Detailed architectural plans are widely available and no design fee is chargeable. 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 of each unit to MCr17.760.
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	Cargo capacity amounts to 28 dTons.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Runabout is a low-tech design used for a variety of roles. The design is representative and a large number of variants exist, particularly with regard to the allotted weapons systems, onboard electronics, and the fit out of internal spaces.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Different examples of the design are known by many different names but all have very similar performance characteristics and capabilities.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Smallcraft:

• Auxiliary: Runabout
  • Apollo class Runabout

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• 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