Freespace Gateway class Freighter

Freespace Gateway class Freighter
The nose and bridge on a Freespace Gateway.
Type: AK Subsidized Trader
Category	BCS
Size	2,500 Tons
Hull Configuration	Close Structure Hull
Streamlining	Partly Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–12
Engineering
Computer	Model/3
Jump	J-3
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	25
Offensive	5 triple laser turrets, 20 triple sandcaster turrets
Accommodations
Staterooms	28
Low Berths	30
Personnel
Crew	23
Officers	4
Enlisted	19
High/Mid Passengers	16
Low Passengers	30
Payload
Cargo	1,050 Tons
Fuel tank	825 Tons
Carried craft	1 30t boat
Construction
Construction Time	32 Months
Origin	Third Imperium
Manufacturer	Medurma AstroTech
Price
Cost	MCr1,795.080
Architect fee	MCr17.951
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	AK-02S23
Universal Ship Profile	AK-B432331-090000-60000-0
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	Yes
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Designer	Ade Stewart
Design System	High Guard
Era	1105
Reference	Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag 149.

The Freespace Gateway class Freighter is a TL–12 Freighter.

Description

This is a vessel with 2-G and Jump-3 performance, with a partially streamlined Close Structure Hull. The Freespace Gateway-class is a rounded, irregularly shaped vessel with cowlings and fairings to assist atmospheric operations. It carries medium armament and a medium quality defensive suite. It ordinarily carries one subcraft. It carries 23 crew and no marines.

Image Repository

1. A Freespace Gateway class Freighter under spaceflight.
   

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	2,500 tons. Partially streamlined close structure configuration.
2.	Crew	x23 crew. x3 Command, x4 Engineering, x6 Gunners, x8 Service, x2 Stewards Accommodations x28 Staterooms x16 available to paying passengers. x12 given over to crew quarters. The Captain receives an individual cabin: all other crew travel double occupancy. x30 Low Berths
3.	Performance	Propulsion: Jump-3 2-G acceleration Agility-1, Emergency Agility-2 Power Plant-3 75-EPs
4.	Electronics	Bridge. x1 Model/3 computer.
5.	Hardpoints	x25 hardpoints. x25 given over to turrets
6.	Armament / Weaponry	The normal weapons fit-out for a Freespace Gateway class is: x5 triple Beam Laser turrets, grouped into 1 battery of five linked turrets.
7.	Defenses	Defensive Equipment: The hull is unarmored. x20 triple Sandcaster turrets, grouped into 2 batteries of ten linked turrets. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft / Drones	Hangar Space: 40 tons x1 30-ton Ship's Boat
9.	Fuel Treatment	Fueling Equipment: Fuel Tankage: 825 tons. The hull is fitted with Fuel Scoops The vessel is not equipped with a Fuel Treatment Plant
10.	Cost	MCr1,795.080 (basic cost, including a Ship's Boat). MCr1,436.064 (in quantity). Architect's Fee: MCr17.951
11.	Construction Time	33 months to build.
12.	Remarks	Other Equipment: Cargo Bay: Standard cargo capacity amounts to 1,050 tons. Three Ship's Lockers

History & Background

Hias'deaaq is a merchant line operating these vesssels. Their services cover some twelve subsectors in both Gushemege and Dagudashaag though they mainly trade on the Medurma Main from Mimu to Argi. Hias'deaaq's registered homeworld is Zeda and it is the largest and most successful Ziadd-owned concern in the sector.

Much of the company’s trade is in medium to high-value cargoes such as manufactured goods. This is a deliberate marketing strategy as the board of directors is aware that they are currently too small to directly challenge Tukera Lines in the bulk cargo market.

The extensive deregulation of corporate activities by Raegis Viisarikaa, and later by Karyn, has given Hias'deaaq a significant economic boost.

In the last few years the company has been undergoing an extensive scheme of modernization and re-equipping. The small fleet of 2,500 tonne Freespace Gateway-class freighters (designed by Medurma AstroTech and licensed to U'Chakzii-Ziask SIA) now form the backbone of the company.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: While some have noted that the vessels have a distinctly "Aslan" look to them, the design in fact bears more similarity to the kinds of vessel used during the Vilani Imperium. The first starships that the Ziadd came into direct possession of were former First Imperium merchant ships, gifted to them by the victorious Terrans.

The Ziadd are nothing if not traditional, and over the thousands of years that the Ziadd have been spacefaring the Vilani pattern for ships has become the accepted norm for their vessels. In fact modern design companies routinely draw on traditional hull configurations when designing new vessels for Ziadd.

Class Naming Practice/s: No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

41 Representative Subsidized Trader (AK) Classes

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

Civilian Ship - Trader - Type AK Subsidized Trader

A

• Akkigish class Subsidized Merchant
• Amkarim class Trade Liner
• Andrew class Commercial Shuttle
• Anhk class Merchant

B

• Bloodwell class Merchant
• Borazio class Heavy Freighter

C

• Cihzicih class Transport
• Congo class Cargo Barge

D

• Dhaztuen class Far Merchant
• Doji Hoturi class Bulk Freighter

F

• Freespace Gateway class Freighter

G

• Gamma Haden class Liner
• Ghent class Subsidized Merchant
• Goliath class Provincial Freighter

• Guilder class Subsidized Merchant

J

• Jasper class Provincial Merchant
• Jelmirt Marquis class High Liner
• Jose Cadiz Royal Galleon class Cargo Carrier

K

• Khtukhao class Clan Transport
• Kolomyia class Fast Liner

L

• Last Armada class Launch
• Last Armada class Survey Shuttle
• Lightning class Frontier Merchant

M

• Mauripo class Subsidized Merchant
• Mavuzo class Super Freighter
• Mora class Freighter

P

• Palatine class Merchant Trader
• Petty class Subsidized Merchant

R

• Rodgers class Skiff

S

• Seeker class Armored Merchant
• Sirocco class Merchant Freighter
• Star*mart class Provincial Merchant
• Swordfish class Merchant

T

• Trader class Provincial Transport
• Type CT class Cargo Carrier
• Type R2 class Subsidized Merchant
• Type RL class Subsidized Merchant
• Type RL2 class Subsidized Merchant
• Tyrfing class Freighter

V

• VCS 898 class Replenishment Vessel
• Virtue class Light Freighter

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.

• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 149.
• Author: Ade Stewart (Created Statistics from Original Entry)