Rodgers class Skiff

Rodgers class Skiff
Impounded pirate skiff
Type: UML Skiff
Category	Smallcraft
Size	20 Tons
Hull Configuration	Wedge Hull
Streamlining	Airframe Hull
Tech Level	TL–7
Engineering
Computer	Model/1 Flt
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	2
Officers	1
Enlisted	1
Marines	2
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	3 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Manufacturer	Various pirate lords among the Shoals and beyond.
Year Operational	Unknown
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr19.35 MCr. prototype
Architect fee	MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	UML-2A20
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Also see	Utility Craft / Launch
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr.
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Rodgers class Skiff is a smallcraft.

• It is a civilian ship, a utility craft, and a Skiff.
• In the Unofficial (world) system, this class is popular among Adventures, Adventurers in the Unofficial System

Description (Specifications)

It is a vessel with 2-G acceleration and J-0 performance with a streamlined 20 dton hull.

• It carries light armament and a defensive suite.
• It ordinarily carries no subcraft, ship's vehicles, and drones when needed.
• It has a 2 sophont crew and 2 marines.

Image Repository

The classic lawn dart rocket, a streamlined needle. They frequently feature either the shiny silver chrome finish or lurid color scapes, of an aposematic warning nature. Replete with skulls and crossbones, they often cut a rather dramatic sight to behold.

General Description & Deck Plans

This is a surplus impounded vessel, a captured and re-flagged pirate ship. It has 2G's acceleration and a powerful factor 5 thorium fission reactor coupled with solar panels, a fuel cell and batteries which combine to produce 500MW which is just enough to power the laser pulsar in combat. It is modest with a spin habitat with one small craft stateroom in each end. The flight crew have one end and the two marines share the other. There is a three ton cargo bay.

Weapons: The rocket launcher has three ready missiles and storage for nine more in a magazine. The three ready loads are a probe, a HE dog fight missile with IR seeker, and a thermo nuclear Mk 48 ship killer torpedo, with radio link command guidance and optical terminal homing and home on jammer options.

The LADAR and laser communication array are fused with the multi-task CLAWS (complete, long axis weapons system) the laser array can be over powered and used as a single pulse weapon battery. This can be used for point defense against missiles with the appropriate software loaded in the model 1 computer. 2/4 maneuver, target, launch

The counter measures launcher has a water canister effective against laser and missiles, a IR nova flare cartridge, chaff/window canister for foiling targeting radars, and an ECM pod for decoying and jamming active seeking missiles.

Your mission is to capture enemy base/outpost and re-flag it. Colonization Assets

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	20 tons.
2.	Crew	2 crew.
3.	Performance	Propulsion: Jump-0 2-G acceleration 1.0 tons of fuel. Power Plant-5 1-EPs Agility-0
4.	Electronics	Model/1 ship computer.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint.
6.	Armament / Weaponry	The normal weapons fit-out for it is: Lasers: 1 pulse laser cannon Energy Weapons: None Particle Accelerators: None Meson Guns: None Missiles: 1 missile rack Other: None
7.	Defenses	Defensive Equipment: Ship Armors: None Meson Screens: None Nuclear Dampers: None Repulsors: None Other: 1 counter measures station
8.	Craft / Drones	none
9.	Fuel Treatment	none
10.	Cost	MCr19.35.
11.	Construction Time	10 months to build, 8 months in quantity.
12.	Remarks	Other Equipment: Cargo Bay: Standard cargo capacity amounts to 3.0 tons.

History & Background (Dossier)

Build by pirates from beyond the Shoals Planetoid Belt. Recently used in operations in orbit of the moon Tawnos.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: No information yet available.

Class Naming Practice/s: No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Civilian Ship- Smallcraft - Utility Craft:

1. Type UML class Launch
   1. Constance class Launch
   2. Damgarrii class Passenger Launch
   3. Generic Launch / Lifeboat
   4. Gillow class Launch
   5. Last Armada class Launch
   6. Rodgers class Skiff
   7. Stead class Modular Launch
   8. Venters class Launch

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), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science