Merant class Fleet Tender
Merant class Fleet Tender | |
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Distant Fringe vessel. | |
Type: VTB Battle Tender | |
Category | BCS |
Size | 12,000 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Dispersed Structure Hull |
Streamlining | Unstreamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–10 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/4 fib |
Jump | J-1 |
Maneuver | 1 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 120 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 0 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 64 (+300 marines) |
Officers | 42 |
Enlisted | 322 |
Marines | 300 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 100.0 Tons |
Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Rimward Federation |
Price | |
Cost | MCr4,614.939 (base) MCr3,691.951 (discounted) |
Architect fee | MCr46.149 |
Statistics | |
Images | |
Blueprint | No. |
Illustration | No |
Source | |
Also see | Subcraft Carrier - Tender |
Canon | Published, fan design |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Ron Kline Design |
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance. |
The Merant class Fleet Tender is an auxiliary warship.
- It is a military ship and a Fleet Tender.
- Please also see AAB article: Rimward Federation Navy
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
- Please also see AAB article: Warships of the Distant Fringe.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
The Fleet Tender is a military transport vessel that sees service within the Rimward Federation and among the rimward worlds of the Distant Fringe. It is classified as a Battle Tender and is constructed as a long-range design.
- The vessel is a TL 10 design.
Image Repository[edit]
No information yet available.
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 | 12,000 tons. The Fleet Tender is constructed using a 12000 dTon hull built in a dispersed structure configuration.
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2. | Crew | 64 crew.
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3. | Performance | Propulsion:
The vessel mounts a DeVoss-type jump-1 drive, a maneuver-1 drive, and a power plant 2, giving performance of jump-1 and 1G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 0 and an emergency agility of 1. There is fuel tankage of 5040 dTons, sufficient for four jump-1s and giving the power plant four weeks duration. The vessel is fitted with a fuel purification plant.
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4. | Electronics | Model/4 fib computer.
Main Section: Adjacent to the bridge is a computer model/4 fib: the vessel carries an additional backup computer model/4 fib. There are 188 staterooms. Cargo capacity amounts to 100 dTons. Double occupancy accommodations are required for all except the command crew. 150 staterooms are available ships troops.
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5. | Hardpoints | x120 hardpoints. |
6. | Armament | The ship is fitted with 3x 100 dTon bays and 90 turrets. These are grouped into:
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7. | Defenses |
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8. | Craft | The ship carries a 40 dTon Recovery Craft in a dedicated hanger.
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9. | Fuel Treatment | A fuel refinery, this hull can not skim fuel |
10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel, complete with a Recovery Craft, is MCr4,614.939.
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11. | Construction Time | 42 months (165 weeks) for a single unit, 33 months (132 weeks) in quantity. |
12. | Comments | Transports fighting craft into battle
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History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Designed and built at Dal Hallen for the Rimward Federation. Merant class Fleet Tenders move between strategic locations, supporting and reinforcing fleet elements for coordinated defense of the Federation. They are constructed as dispersed structure hulls for rapid deployment and recovery of carried craft. Two in service. Cargo is often allocated to grav vehicles to transport the marine battalion.
- They have fuel refineries but are incapable of performing wilderness refueling operations. They are able to convert skimmed hydrogen (provided to them by vessels such as tankers) into refined fuel.
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]
Vessel Peculiarities: No information yet available.
Class Naming Practice/s: Each vessel within the class is named by the government of the state that produces it. They generally draw on traditional naming protocols and it is not uncommon for a historical class name to be reused.
- Individual vessels within the class are issued specific serial numbers and transponder codes.
- Naming a ship is considered a serious affair and is generally accompanied by a traditional ceremony, usually pouring a local beverage over the bows of the craft. Starfarers tend to be superstitious folk and a ship with a frivolous name is considered "unlucky".
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
Military Ship - Warship - Battle Tender:
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
- 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.
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak