Dark Spirit class Intelligence Vessel

Dark Spirit class Intelligence Vessel
Type: SN Naval Scout
Category	ACS
Size	900 Tons
Hull Configuration	Buffered Planetoid Hull
Streamlining	Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–12
Engineering
Computer	Model 6/fib
Jump	J-3
Maneuver	1 G
Fuel Treatment	Purifier
Armaments
Hardpoints	9
Accommodations
Staterooms	20
Personnel
Crew	20
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	4 Tons
Fuel tank	297 Tons
Carried craft	1 20t boat
Construction
Origin	Jelmiri Marches
End of Service	1100
Price
Cost	MCr545.163
Architect fee	MCr5.45
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	SN-9P13
Universal Ship Profile	SN-99313F2-700000-44005-0
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	Yes
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Designer	Ronald B. Kline Jr.
Design System	High Guard
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr.

The Dark Spirit class Intelligence Vessel is a TL–12 Spy Ship.

Description

The Dark Spirit class served as a spyship of the former Jelmiri Marches, operated by the Jelmiri Marches Navy.

Image Repository

Dark Spirit class Spyship

Jembyra class Recovery Boat

General Description

The Dark Spirit class is an intelligence vessel formerly deployed by the Jelmiri Marches - the exact number that were constructed has never been revealed and the number of surviving examples is unknown. The vessel has an unstreamlined buffered planetoid hull and is not fitted for wilderness refueling. The class has enough internal fuel for one Jump-3. Its performance (1-G and J-3) is considered average but its onboard electronics are excellent.

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	The Dark Spirit class is constructed using a 900 dTon buffered planetoid hull. The hull is unstreamlined and has no atmospheric capability. Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. There are x3 personnel airlocks. The cargo hold can be used as an additional airlock. The vessel has no capacity to perform surface landings.
2.	Crew	x20 personnel. x1 Command Pilot, x1 Navigator, x4 Engineers, x1 Medic, x4 Gunners, x1 Flight Crew, and x8 Marines. The command crew consists of the Command Pilot / Captain. Accommodations There are 10 Staterooms. Staterooms are constructed as "half rooms" (each of 2 dTons displacement) to afford crewmembers some privacy. All Staterooms are given over to the crew. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Individual sections of the hull can be sealed off. There are multiple emergency lockers.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Jump-3 drive, a Maneuver-1 drive, and a fusion Power Plant-3, giving performance of Jump-3 and 1-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 1. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for one Jump-3 and gives the power plant 4 weeks duration. The engineering section has a main control room. The jump drive utilizes a hull grid. The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.
4.	Electronics	Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/6 fib computer. The vessel does not have a backup computer. There are multiple workstations and control points throughout the vessel. The vessel is fitted with advanced communications equipment, a sophisticated sensor array, and has an avionics suite. It is equipped with a sophisticated ECM package and Jamming Equipment. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x9 hardpoints. The listed weapons systems are typical for the class.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for the Dark Spirit class is: x1 dual fusion gun turret, forming its own battery. x2 triple beam laser turrets, grouped into a single battery of 2 linked turrets. x6 triple missile turrets, grouped into a single battery of 6 linked turrets. Each launcher mounts standard Anti-Shipping Missiles.
7.	Defenses	The hull is plated, braced and structurally reinforced. It has an armor rating of 7. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft	Flight Section: x1 20-dTon Jembyra class Recovery Boat. The subcraft is housed in a dedicated hangar: the hangar can be sealed and has a total volume of 20 dTons.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 297 dTons. The hull is not fitted with fuel scoops. The vessel is not equipped with a fuel purification plant.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr545.163 Architects Fee: MCr5.452 If multiple examples of the design are ordered all vessels in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price per unit to MCr436.130 The price does not include the cost of the launch: x1 Jeremey class Recovery Boat costs MCr12.925 (discounts apply on bulk orders, reducing the cost to MCr10.340). With its subcraft, a discounted Dark Spirit class costs MCr446.470
11.	Construction Time	116 weeks to build, 93 weeks in quantity. Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12.	Comments	Standard cargo capacity amounts to 11 dTons. The hold has independent life support and environmental systems. It can be sealed and isolated.

History & Background

The Dark Spirit class are constructed around an unstreamlined buffered planetoid hull. All the hulls in the class were cut from a single large parent planetoid and have a relatively similar overall shape: fusion-tunneling created the interior spaces and the exteriors were sculpted so that the vessels resembled natural planetoid bodies. Antenna and aerials are retractable and outer doors close over the maneuver drives to complete the camouflage.

The engineering section is equipped with reliable jump 3 Horizon drives, Gomax 1G maneuver drives, and a Plasmadyne F-3 fusion reactor. Standard operational procedure is to power down and avoid detection for as long as possible while monitoring enemy movements and activity. The class fight defensively and rely on their armored hull for protection, seeking to jump out from danger.

The class has excellent passive sensor arrays and deploys sensor drones, able to form a detection grid out to a range of 1 AU.

The vessel carries an impressive array of weapons mounted on nine hardpoints. A dual heavy turret mounts Hellbent fusion cannons, two triple turrets mount Sentinel beam lasers, and six triple turrets carry missile launchers mounting Predator class "barrage cluster" micro missile systems. The missile turrets are tied together and fire as a single battery.

Production of Dark Spirits effectively ceased in 1100, following the Jaibok invasion of the Marches and the destruction of the naval construction yards at Jelmirt. Some vessels were destroyed during the invasion and some are believed to have fled into the interior of Theta Borealis Sector, vowing to continue the fight and liberate their homeland from the Korsumug Empire.

At least one example of the class is known to operate as part of the Percavid regime, though shortages of specialist components to replace worn or broken onboard equipment limits its operational capability.

• Loyalist forces of the Percavid Marches.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities:
The vessel operated as a covert ops, surveillance, and sensor platform. They depended on their recovery boat as an interface craft. The vessel was frequently tasked with inserting and removing agents from active duty and was used to keep tabs on the enemy's disposition and intent.

• Intelligence operatives frequently displaced one of the marines assigned to the vessel.

Class Naming Practice/s:
Vessels of the Jelmiri Marches did not use the alphanumeric designations common to other designs of the region, instead using only a "callsign" name.

• Dark Spirit was selected as an easy to remember class name to identify the specific type of vessel.
• Individual vessels were named by a committee using an authorized list.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

29 Representative Naval Scout (SN) Classes

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Military Ship - Type SN Naval Scout

A

• Adlerstein class Fleet Courier
• Asia class Scout

B

• Barnett class Fleet Courier

C

• C-7 class Scout
• Caliphate class Scout
• Chercheur class Fleet Dispatch Courier

D

• Dark Spirit class Intelligence Vessel
• Dewclaw class Fleet Scout
• Dunkle class Fleet Scout

H

• Hunter class Armored Scout

I

• Imperial Intruder class Scout

K

• KE2 Zerp class Battle Scout

L

• Last Line class Fleet Courier

M

• Marathon class Fleet Courier
• Militia class Military Scout

P

• Phidippides class Fast Courier
• Prata class Attack Scout
• Protective class Scout

S

• Saladin class Fleet Scout
• SH02A class Fleet Scout

• Skela class Attack Scout
• Starfarer class Scout
• Stayaow class Combat Scout
• Swift class Fleet Courier
• Switch Black class Intruder Scout

T

• Talon class Scout

V

• Vanguard class Attack Scout

W

• Wasp class Fleet Scout
• Wiesbaden class Military Scout

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 Mongoose Publishing 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