Furnish class Tanker
Furnish class Tanker | |
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Type: RG Tanker | |
Category | BCS |
Size | 3,000 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Cone Hull |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–11 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/3 |
Jump | J-2 |
Maneuver | 2 G |
Fuel Treatment | Scoops, Purifier |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 30 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 25 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 32 |
Officers | 10 |
Enlisted | 22 |
Pilots | 4 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 4 Tons |
Fuel tank | 2,260 Tons |
Carried craft | 2x 10 dTon Launches |
Special features | 40 dTon hangar |
Construction | |
Construction Time | 34 Months |
Origin | Third Imperium |
Price | |
Cost | MCr1,446.965 |
Architect fee | MCr14.47 |
Statistics | |
Universal Ship Profile | RG-C222232-090000-60000-0 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
Designer | Ade Stewart |
Design System | High Guard |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Stewart |
The Furnish class Tanker is a TL–11 Tanker.
- It is used by military forces and by commercial organizations.
- It has large internal fuel tanks and a fuel purification plant.
- Similar designs operate across Charted Space.
Description[edit]
The Furnish class is a tanker vessel. It collects and refines hydrogen fuel and either transports it to a starport or provides it directly to another vessel.
These large and generally grubby ships may be encountered almost anywhere. Their outer skins become stained and darkened by trace chemicals while skimming gas giant atmospheres and they frequently exhibit dents and scrapes resulting from poor maneuvering while vessels are coming alongside to refuel. Commercial tankers may serve an organization, supporting its operational craft and providing them with refined fuel on demand, or may operate as independent gas traders, selling fuel directly from their tanks, particularly in systems with starports that do not provide local refuelling facilities. Military tankers will generally be accompanied by at least one escort vessel.
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General Description[edit]
The Furnish class is an auxiliary tanker with performance of J-2 and 2-G acceleration. It is a relatively large, relatively slow ship, equipped with strong sandcaster defenses and laser turrets most commonly used in a point defense role. The design is fully streamlined, giving good atmospheric performance, allowing it to skim for fuel, and enabling it to perform surface landings.
The vessel is an unevenly shaped cone with an overall length of 113 meters, a mean diameter of 37 meters, and a volume of approximately 40,500 cubic meters. The ship has many pods, blisters, cowlings, recesses, housings, and protuberances over its surface. Despite this slightly irregular shape it is aerodynamic and may operate within planetary atmospheres.
Basic Ship Characteristics[edit]
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. [1]
Basic Ship Characteristics [2] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage / Hull | The Furnish class Tanker is constructed using a 3,000 dTon hull built in a generally conical configuration. The hull is streamlined and has good atmospheric capability: its atmospheric handling characteristics are improved by its onboard gravitic systems.
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2. | Crew | x32 personnel (x40 in military service).
Accommodations There are x25 Staterooms.
Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance | The vessel mounts a Jump-2 drive, a Maneuver-2 drive, and a fusion Power Plant-2, giving performance of Jump-2 and 2-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 0 and an emergency agility of 2. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for one Jump-2 and gives the power plant 4 weeks duration.
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4. | Electronics | Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/3 computer. A backup Model/3 is installed in engineering.
The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a standard sensor array, and has an avionics suite.
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5. | Hardpoints | x30 hardpoints.
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6. | Armament | The normal weapons fit-out for a Furnish class is:
x10 triple Beam Laser turrets, forming two batteries of 5 linked turrets. |
7. | Defenses | The hull has no additional armor.
x20 triple Sandcaster turrets, forming two batteries of 10 linked turrets.
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8. | Craft | Flight Section:
x2 10-dTon Servant class Launches. The subcraft are housed in a dedicated hangar: the hangar can be sealed and has a total volume of 40 dTons. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 660 dTons.
The vessel has commercial / refuelling tankage of 1600 dTons.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr1,446.965
The price does not include the cost of the subcraft:
With its subcraft, a discounted Furnish class costs MCr1,167.428 |
11. | Construction Time | 135 weeks as standard, 108 weeks in bulk.
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12. | Comments | Standard cargo capacity amounts to 4 dTons.
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History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Furnish class tankers are capable vessels, carrying a large quantity of commercial fuel relative to their size. They typically refuel at a convenient local fuel source, refining the gas they harvest and jumping with it to their destination, delivering or distributing it (retaining enough internal fuel for ongoing jump operations), and jumping back to a nearby fuel source to repeat the cycle.
F Class Vessels[edit]
The design is one of a related series collectively referred to as F Class vessels: the Furnish class was the first of the family.
The Furnish class is representative: large numbers of variants of the particular type exist, particularly with regard to the installed weapons systems, the allotted onboard electronics, and the fit out of accommodations and internal spaces.
- Other F Class designs include the larger Freshwater class and the Florence class.
Vessel Peculiarities[edit]
The Furnish class, like all other examples of the F Class, develops a characteristic judder during fuel skimming operations, when the main tanks reach 50% capacity and auxiliary pumping gear begins transferring fuel to secondary tanks. The refining plant and fuel pumping equipment are noisy. Engineering personnel wear ear protection and rely on personal communicators when working around them.
The boom arms that extend from the tankers hull and transfer fuel to adjacent ships are easily damaged. The vessel carries multiple spares and extra components.
- Boom arm repair is one of the most unpopular jobs on the ship.
The class was originally designed to have three launches and adequate hangar space was provided for them. These subcraft were intended to transport personnel while the parent vessel remained in orbit providing refuelling services, and to act as lifeboats in an emergency. The class was only ever issued with two launches as standard (likely as a result of corporate cutbacks and penny-pinching) resulting in inadequate escape facilities for the crew in the event of their needing to evacuate the vessel. Individual owners and captains may upgrade by purchasing an additional subcraft if desired, though more often the vacant hangar space is used as extra cargo storage.
Nomad Ports[edit]
Furnish class Tankers may occasionally pair with an Assistance class Tender, a vessel equipped to carry out field maintenance and repairs on smaller craft. These two vessels, working together, can temporarily provide some equivalence to Class A starport facilities on a frontier world. Such outfits are usually escorted by one or more small warships, such as the Cerberus class Gunboat or the Phoebe class Armored Escort.
- The Nomad Port moves from system to system, usually working to an established itinerary.
- The arrival of a Nomad Port is often timed to coincide with a harvest or a local festival, when in-system traffic is likely to be higher.
- Well equipped private security forces are usually retained.
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
31 Representative Tanker (RG) Classes[edit]
Civilian Ship - Freighter - Type RG Tanker
B
C
D
F
G
H
I
J
K
- KA25c Growler class Tanker
- Kandor class Tanker
- Kandor class Tanker
- Kleinnächster class Medium Tanker
L
M
N
O
P
R
T
V
References[edit]
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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules:
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- Author: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author: Deekay Krause
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.