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)

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.

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1. Planetoid Hulls are a cheap and common hull type.
   

CBPUSAL Function Designation Streamlining Spectrum

The Imperial Ship Builders Association (ISBA) qualifies modern naval hulls across this spectrum:

1. C. Cluster. An accumulation of compartments.
2. B. Braced Cluster. Structured for higher acceleration.
3. P. Planetoid. A hollowed nickel-iron asteroid.
4. U. Unstreamlined. Protrusions increase drag.
5. S. Streamlined. Cowlings and fairings decrease drag.
6. A. Airframe. Winged for performance in atmosphere.
7. L. Lifting Body. Radically streamlined lifting-surfaces.

Special Variant: Buffered Planetoid Hull

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

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

Selected Craft Using Planetoid Hulls

9 Representative Buffered Planetoid Hull configuration ships

Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Dark Spirit class Intelligence Vessel SN 900 12 Jelmiri Marches 1 3 Yes Lake class Surveillance Vessel S 9,789 12 Principality of Caledon 1 2 No MCS class Mobile Asteroid Base J 10,000,000 13 Third Imperium 1 0 No Methuselah class System Defense Monitor HMS 750,000 12 Caliphate of Estalia 3 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Pallad class Asteroid Scout S 200 15 Third Imperium 2 3 No Uffan class Monitor HML 4,000 9 Uffan Strategic Space Forces 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Uffan class Monitor HML 4,000 9 Uffan Strategic Space Forces 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Uffan class Monitor HML 4,000 9 Uffan Strategic Space Forces 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Uffan class Monitor HML 4,000 9 Uffan Strategic Space Forces 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design.

14 Representative Planetoid Hull configuration ships

Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Ancona class Destroyer DM 6,000 12 Glenauran Signatorate 3 3 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Caccil class Merchant A 100,000 13 Aakho Pantocracy 1 1 No Express Rock class Mail Drone RK 100 11 Third Imperium 0 2 No Fuelbag class Fuel Depot Drone RG 10 12 Third Imperium 1 0 No Governor class Yacht MY 900 13 Council of Heads 2 4 No Icepick class Fuel/Ice Harvesting Drone JJ 10 12 Second Imperium 7 0 No Inquiry class Lab Ship SK 400 11 Distant Fringe 1 2 No Mint class Mining Drone JJ 10 12 Third Imperium 1 0 No PartiCard class Battle Rider BRV 100 12 Third Imperium 6 No Planetoid Hauler class Cargo Ship RV 990 9 Terran Confederation 1 0 No Silver Spur class Scout S 200 11 Council of the Wise 5 2 No Taranil class Patrol Frigate EF 1,600 10 Maujen Defense Bureau 1 1 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Xadis class Patrol Ship HTP 200 11 High Senate 2 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Xadis class Patrol Ship HTP 200 11 High Senate 2 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• 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