Reynolds Meyers Briggs class Heavy Merchant

Reynolds Meyers Briggs class Heavy Merchant
Type: A Trader
Category	BCS
Size	7,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	Close Structure Hull
Streamlining	Partly Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–12
Engineering
Computer	Model/4
Jump	J-1
Maneuver	1 G
Fuel Treatment	Scoops, Purifier
Armaments
Hardpoints	70
Accommodations
Staterooms	160
Low Berths	40
Personnel
Crew	53
Officers	11
Enlisted	42
High/Mid Passengers	100
Low Passengers	40
Payload
Cargo	4,000 Tons
Fuel tank	1,470 Tons
Carried craft	4 40t Pinnaces
Construction
Construction Time	37.5 Months
Origin	Distant Fringe
Price
Cost	MCr1,984.116
Architect fee	MCr198.411
Statistics
Universal Ship Profile	A-G411142-080000-03000-0
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Designer	Ronald B. Kline Jr.
Design System	High Guard
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr.

The Reynolds Meyers Briggs class Heavy Merchant is a TL–12 merchant vessel.

Description

It is a vessel with 1-G and J-1 performance with a partially streamlined Close Structure Hull. It is capable of gas giant refueling. In practice this is seldom attempted with passengers embarked. Designed and built in the Ras Tennol (world) system, the Reynolds Meyers Briggs Class Heavy Merchant is a heavy merchant vessel built under license to local companies. It ordinarily carries four subcraft. It has a crew of 53. It can carry fifty high passengers and fifty middle passengers, as well as forty low berths. The massive four thousand ton cargo bay is the true money maker.

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.

Basic Ship Characteristics
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage / Hull	7,000 tons. Designed around a 7,000 dTon partially streamlined close structure hull and is is fitted with fuel scoops and onboard fuel purification for wilderness refueling. The class is a long-range design: They carry enough internal fuel for two consecutive jump 1s and have sufficient capacity to run the power plant for 2 weeks. They are capable of 1G constant acceleration and have no agility rating. Droptanks: The class is fitted with Droptanks capable of supporting an additional Jump-1 for extended range operations.
2.	Crew	x53 crew.
3.	Performance / Engineering	Propulsion: Jump-1 1-G acceleration Power Plant-1 70-EPs Agility-0
4.	Main Section / Electronics	Model/4 computer. The design is equipped with an efficient model model/4 computer adjacent to the bridge. The fifty-three crew members include eleven in command functions, five engineers, three gunners, lucky thirteen in the flight department, fourteen overworked in the services and seven security operators. There are 153 staterooms on multiple decks and forty low berths adjacent to the medical center. The crew and passengers enjoy uncrowded single occupancy rooms, with connected suites possible for high passengers travelling together.
5.	Hardpoints	x70 hardpoints.
6.	Armament / Weaponry	The normal weapons fit-out for it is: Lasers: None Energy Weapons: Fitted with a single plasma cannon to “blast space rocks” which pose a navigational menace to the vessel. Particle Accelerators: None Meson Guns: None Missiles: None Other: None
7.	Defenses	Defensive Equipment: Ship Armors: None Meson Screens: None Nuclear Dampers: None Repulsors: None Other: A single battery of nine triple sand caster turrets to deter hostile fire.
8.	Craft / Drones	The class carries four pinnaces for flexibility in cargo handling and refueling if needed.
9.	Fuel Treatment	Fueling Equipment: 1,470.0 tons of fuel. Fuel Scoops Fuel Treatment Plant
10.	Cost	MCr1,984.116 (base) MCr1,587.293 (quantity).
11.	Construction Time	150 weeks to build, 120 weeks in quantity.
12.	Remarks	Other Equipment: Cargo Bay: Standard cargo capacity amounts to 4,000.0 tons. Ship's Locker

History & Background

It is a popular design used for commercial operations in the wilder, more hostile portions of the Sena Subsector of Halcyon Sector. They frequently serve as merchant transports for large cargoes.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

17 Representative Trader (A) Classes

§ == ( Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information: ) == §

Civilian Ship - Trader - Type A Trader

A

• Apollo class Runabout

B

• Bluestone class Cargo Barge

C

• Caccil class Merchant

D

• Damgarrii class Passenger Launch
• Darlene class Gig
• Delta Princess class Merchant

L

• Launch
• Liberty III class Independent Merchant
• Lushina class Fast Cutter

P

• Port of Nickle Eugenia class Bulk Container Vessel
• Pratt class Gig

R

• Refugee Pilgrim class Transport

• Reynolds Meyers Briggs class Heavy Merchant
• Rhapsody class Merchant Trader

S

• Seragh class Cutter
• Servant class Launch

T

• Type A class Free Trader

References

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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules: Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 12-23. Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-36.

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.

• Author: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS