Caryatid class System Defense Boat
| Caryatid class System Defense Boat | |
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 A Caryatid class System Defense Boat cruising near the center of a star system, a homegrown subsector navy SDB. | |
| Type: HSB System Defense Boat | |
| Category | ACS |
| Size | 500 Tons |
| Hull Configuration | Cylinder Hull |
| Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
| Tech Level | TL–14 |
| Engineering | |
| Computer | Model/1 fib |
| Jump | J-0 |
| Maneuver | 5 G |
| Armaments | |
| Hardpoints | 5 |
| Accommodations | |
| Staterooms | 0 |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 6 |
| Officers | 3 |
| Enlisted | 3 |
| Marines | 3 |
| High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
| Payload | |
| Cargo | 20.0 Tons |
| Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
| Construction | |
| Origin | Third Imperium |
| Year Operational | Unknown |
| End of Service | Still in active service. |
| Price | |
| Cost | MCr605.021, MCr484.017 in Qty. |
| Architect fee | MCrJim Kundert |
| Statistics | |
| Images | |
| Blueprint | No |
| Illustration | Yes |
| Source | |
| Also see | Defensive Ship |
| Canon | Published, fan design |
| Era | 1105 |
| Reference | Fan: Jim Kundert |
| Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance. | |
The Caryatid class System Defense Boat is a defensive warship.
- It is a military ship and a System Defense Boat.
- It is a TL–14 warship.
- It functions as part of the Inar SysDefCom.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
It is a vessel with 5-G and J-0 performance with a unstreamlined cylinder hull. Slightly larger than the TL–15 Dragon SDB, the Caryatid is a unstreamlined tail-sitter tall cylinder, with its decks arranged perpendicular to the direction of thrust. This allows the SDB to turn off its internal gravitics while maintaining station in a gas giant or on a world, thus reducing its densitometer profile.
- It carries heavy armament and a defensive suite.
- It ordinarily carries a launch and no drones. Unlike the Dragon, this design includes a 20-ton launch and 3 ship's troops, allowing it to perform customs inspections.
- It has a 6 sophont crew and 3 marines.
Image Repository[edit]
- A Caryatid class System Defense Boat coming into a spaceyard for routine maintenance..
General Description & Deck Plans[edit]
No information yet available.
Basic Ship Characteristics[edit]
Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown in the sidebar. 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]
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
The Duchy of Inar based out of Inar (world) has a vibrant TL-14 or TL-E ship building industry, known for innovative designs and clever Naval Architecture. They are best known for their unstreamlined cylinder hull tail-sitter ship designs and sphere hulled smallcraft specialized for star system defense. They also build some of the finest fusion guns and ECM systems in Imperial Space.
The Carytid-class was not designed and built on Inar, but it uses engineering that later become known as Inari.
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]
Naming Practice: The Caryatid series are typically named after sculpture and famous statuary. Crews do tend to get attached to them and give them a personal name. Some crews get superstitious and paint on nose art or perform interesting ceremonies on the craft including an old Terran custom with a bottled alcohol known as Champagne.
Vessel Peculiarity: The vessels are known for underperforming air filtration systems to which a home-grown fix of growing aromatic herbs or using air fresheners has arisen. Some vessels practical have a homegrown hydroponics lab near their central air filtration systems to prevent crewsophont stink from accumulating too heavily. Vargr crew are often the but of crew stink jokes with their more overt bodily odors, especially when wet.
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
Paramilitary Vessel - Defensive Vessel (D) - System Defense Boat (DB):
Type HS(B) class System Defense Boat
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Marc Miller. Referee's Manual (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 56-89. (Design Sequence Used)
- EXTERNAL LINK: GypsyComet's Shipyarddead link — Design by James Kundert
- Compiler: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.