Granite class Interceptor
Granite class Interceptor | |
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Distant Fringe vessel. | |
Type: FC Microfighter | |
Category | [[Smallcraft]] |
Size | 6 Tons |
Hull Configuration | [[Cone Hull]] |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–7 |
Engineering | |
Computer | 1 |
Jump | J-0 |
Maneuver | 2 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 1 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 0 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 1 |
Officers | 1 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 0.0 Tons |
Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Distant Fringe |
Year Operational | None |
Price | |
Cost | MCr8.150 (base) MCr6.520 (qty) |
Architect fee | MCrAde Stewart |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | PL-1A20 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No. |
Illustration | No |
Source | |
Also see | Interceptor |
Canon | Published, fan design |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Stewart |
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard. |
The Granite class Interceptor is a combatant smallcraft.
- It is a military ship and a fighter.
- This is a generic class of smallcraft.
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
- Please also see AAB article: Warships of the Distant Fringe.
Description (Specifications)
The Interceptor is a cheap, reliable vessel designed to engage enemy units from close range. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled. It is defined as a microfighter due to its small size.
- The vessel is a TL-7 design.
Image Repository
A Vigilance class Interceptor (top) and a Granite class Interceptor (bottom).
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 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 Interceptor is constructed using a 6 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving good atmospheric performance. The vessel is not fitted with artificial gravity generation equipment but has thrust vectoring capability, giving it VTOL performance within atmospheres and gravity wells.
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2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: x1
Accommodations
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3. | Performance | The vessel mounts an extremely efficient reaction-based Maneuver-2 drive and a Fission Power Plant-2, giving performance of 2-G acceleration and producing 0.12 Energy Points. 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 up to 20 weeks of operations. Activity in significant gravity wells and atmospheres exponentially reduces the vessel's maneuver endurance.
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4. | Electronics | The cockpit contains an acceleration couch and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1bis Computer: no backup computer is installed.
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5. | Hardpoints | x1 hardpoint. |
6. | Armament | The normal weapons fit-out for an Interceptor is:
The Interceptor is equipped with a Light Machinegun in a fixed forward-facing mount.
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7. | Defenses | The hull is plated, braced and structurally reinforced, with an armor rating of 4.
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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.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr8.150.
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11. | Construction Time | 24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard.
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12. | Comments | The vessel has no internal cargo capacity. |
History & Background (Dossier)
An ubiquitous design used throughout the Distant Fringe, the Interceptor is cheap, durable and reliable. The design is representative and a large number of variants exist, particularly with regard to the allotted weapons systems and onboard electronics. Despite their status as space fighters, designs of this type have airframe features, augmenting their handling characteristics within planetary atmospheres.
Distant Fringe Vessels
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
Individual vessels are generally named by their crews.
- 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. Spacefarers tend to be superstitious folk and a ship with a frivolous name is considered "unlucky".
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Interceptors are mass produced commercial fighter craft, made from standardized components and assembled in class A and B starports of TL-7 or greater across the Distant Fringe region. A range of different hull shapes are available but two main variants have become standard:
References & Contributors (Sources)
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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) 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
- ↑ 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