Kugashin class Laboratory Ship

Kugashin class Laboratory Ship
Type: SK Laboratory Ship
Category	ACS
Size	400 Tons
Hull Configuration	Close Structure Hull
Streamlining	Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–12
Engineering
Computer	Model/2
Jump	J-2
Maneuver	1.3 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	20
Low Berths	1
Personnel
Crew	21
Pilots	1
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	31 Tons
Fuel tank	80 Tons
Carried craft	1 40t pinnace
Special features	10 dTons lab
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Price
Cost	MCr72.8
Images
Blueprint	Yes
Illustration	Yes
Source
Canon	Published, canon design
Designer	Marc Miller
Design System	GURPS Traveller
Era	1120
Reference	GURPS Traveller Core Rules 145.

The Kugashin class Laboratory Ship is an upgraded version of the venerable Lavalier class Laboratory Ship. Using a 400-ton hull, the Kugashin class (also called the Type L) is a mobile research and development station used for routine commercial experimentation. It is an ordinarily unarmed civilian ship.

Description

The lab ship is built as a ring structure which is rotated to provide centrifugal gravity simulation. Although the standard grav plates and inertial compensators are installed, they may be turned off and centrifugal force used instead in order to remove grav forces as a variable in experiments.

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	400 tons. The ship is unstreamlined.
2.	Crew	x10 crew. The lab ship requires a crew of ten: captain, pilot, small-craft pilot, navigator, medic, and three engineers. Gunners may be added to the crew if the ship is armed. Additional crew are carried to execute the research functions.
3.	Performance	It has a performance of Jump-2 and 1.2-G acceleration. There is fuel tankage for 90 tons, sufficient to supply the power plant and one Jump-2.
4.	Electronics	A computer Model/2 with software package is installed adjacent to the bridge.
5.	Hardpoints	x2 hardpoints (x4 possible). Two drive pods are mounted on the rings and contain drives and the power plant; on the forward face of the pods are hardpoints for the turret weaponry if called for.
6.	Armament	One turret is installed, but no weaponry; two tons of space have been reserved for later installation of fire control equipment for the ship's two hardpoints.
7.	Defenses	There are no standard defenses equipped.
8.	Craft	The ship carries one 40-ton fuel skimmer and two air/rafts. Two air/rafts are carried in compartments on the ring hull. They provide access to world surfaces, both for specimen gathering and for routine errands. The 40-ton fuel skimmer is carried at the end of a central spoke, making mating easy even if the ring is rotating.
9.	Fuel Treatment	Refueling: Since the lab ship is unstreamlined, and cannot skim fuel itself, this task falls to the 40-ton fuel skimmer. It is assigned the routine of skimming fuel from a gas giant and ferrying it to the ship. On worlds with refined fuel available, the skimmer ferries the fuel from the starport to the lab ship.
10.	Cost	The ship costs MCr72.8.
11.	Construction Time	It takes 16 months to construct.
12.	Comments	Other Equipment: Cargo Bay: Cargo capacity is 31 tons. The ship comes equipped with 10 laboratory modules, of types specified by the purchaser. There are twenty staterooms and 1 low berth. Spin Habitat

History & Background

Typically, a lab ship will be purchased (or chartered) and assigned to a specific system or world for a series of research projects. After jumping to the system, the ship takes up orbit and begins its regimen of experiments. Lab ships are capable of moving great distances, but generally take up station and remain in one place for long periods of time. The air/rafts are used for routine transport while the fuel skimmer is used for heavier work or missions requiring greater speed. The ship itself has minor thrusters positioned along the ring allowing for rotation as desired.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

15 Representative Laboratory Ship (SK) Classes

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

Civilian Ship - Science Ship - Lab Ship - Type SK Laboratory Ship

A

• Animal class Safari Ship

C

• Calipso class Laboratory Ship
• Ciri class Laboratory Ship

D

• Donosev class Survey Scout

F

• Fresnel Effect class Lab Ship

H

• Herald class Expeditionary Yacht
• Hkiyrerao class Researcher

I

• Inquiry class Lab Ship

K

• Kugashin class Laboratory Ship

L

• Lavalier class Laboratory Ship

• Leaping Snowcat class Safari Ship
• Lintula class Survey Vessel

M

• Makisha Girra class Research Vessel

N

• Nostrii class Science Scout

S

• Sci-Can class Laboratory Ship

References

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This ship was originally designed using GURPS Traveller ship design rules. Loren Wiseman. GURPS Traveller Core Rules (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 149-162. Thomas L. Bont, Robert Prior, Christopher Thrash. Starships (Steve Jackson Games, 2003), 16-73.

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Loren Wiseman. GURPS Traveller Core Rules (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 145.
• Thomas L. Bont, Robert Prior, Christopher Thrash. Starships (Steve Jackson Games, 2003), 93-95.