Goblin class Gig
Goblin class Gig | |
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![]() Distant Fringe vessel. | |
Type: UMG Smallcraft | |
Category | Smallcraft |
Size | 40 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Cone Hull |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–9 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/1 |
Jump | J-0 |
Maneuver | 2 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 1 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 0 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 1 |
Officers | 1 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 0/5 Tons |
Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Distant Fringe |
Year Operational | No information yet available. |
End of Service | Still in active service. |
Price | |
Cost | MCr6.160 (base) MCr5.008 (qty) |
Architect fee | Ade Stewart |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | G-1A20 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Also see | Utility Craft |
Canon | Published, fan design |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Alagoric Stewart |
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Book 5 High Guard |
The Goblin class Gig is a noncombatant smallcraft.
- It is a Civilian Ship, a Utility Craft, and a Gig.
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
The Gig is designed to ferry passengers and incidental cargoes between locations. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.
- The vessel is a TL-9 design.
Image Repository[edit]
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 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 Gig is constructed using a 10 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined with limited airfoil surfaces, giving average atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by its onboard gravitic systems.
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2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: 1
Accommodations The main compartment has x10 passenger acceleration couches. The vessel is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. It has full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance | The vessel mounts a Maneuver-2 drive and a Power Plant-2, giving performance of 2-G acceleration and producing 0.2 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 2. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient to give the power plant approximately 4 weeks duration.
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4. | Electronics | The cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 Computer: no backup Computer is installed.
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5. | Hardpoints | x1 hardpoint. |
6. | Armament | The Gig is unarmed. |
7. | Defenses | The hull is unarmored.
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8. | Craft | The vessel carries no subcraft. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1 dTon.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr6.160.
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11. | Construction Time | 24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard.
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12. | Comments | If the passenger couches are removed the craft has a cargo capacity of up to 5 dTons. |
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
An ubiquitous design used throughout the Distant Fringe, the Gig is simple, durable and robust. The design is representative and a large number of variants exist, particularly with regard to the allotted weapons systems, onboard electronics, and the fit out of internal spaces.
Distant Fringe Vessels[edit]
The Distant Fringe is said to be a far spinward-rimward area inhabited by colonists and refugees originating on Terra. The region is extremely isolated, separated from the rest of Charted Space by vast, almost uncrossable rifts that were once broached by a system of calibration Points and the use of tankers. Those few academics within Charted Space who have found references to the Distant Fringe regard it as little more than a tall tale. Likewise, many of the inhabitants of the Distant Fringe believe the existence of Charted Space to be mythical.[3]
Vessels originating within the Distant Fringe are very rarely encountered outside of the region. However, misjumps do occur and anomalies with bizarre spacetime and Jumpspace effects exist: as such, craft of this type are not entirely unknown within Charted Space.[4]
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]
Different examples of the design are known by many different names but all have very similar performance characteristics and capabilities.
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
Civilian Ship - Utility Craft - Smallcraft - Gig:
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ An unpublished factoid written by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ An unpublished factoid written by Maksim-Smelchak