Planetoid Hull

A Planetoid Hull is a kind of ship structure, fuselage, chassis, or hull.

• Planetoid Hulls are used by Planetoid Vessels.
• It is a kind of Ship Equipment and a kind of Hull.
• Please also see: Mobile World

Description (Specifications)

A Planetoid Hull is a hull constructed from a small planetoid that has laser-tunneled interior for drives, crew, and payload. It is a relatively inexpensive hull with very strong structural properties. It is unsuited for most world landings.

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1. Planetoid Hulls are a cheap and common hull type.
   

CBPUSAL Function Designation Streamlining Spectrum

The Imperial Ship Builders Association (ISBA) qualifies modern naval hulls across this spectrum:

1. C. Cluster. An accumulation of compartments.
2. B. Braced Cluster. Structured for higher acceleration.
3. P. Planetoid. A hollowed nickel-iron asteroid.
4. U. Unstreamlined. Protrusions increase drag.
5. S. Streamlined. Cowlings and fairings decrease drag.
6. A. Airframe. Winged for performance in atmosphere.
7. L. Lifting Body. Radically streamlined lifting-surfaces.

Special Variant: Buffered Planetoid Hull

A Buffered Planetoid Hull is similar to a standard planetoid hull with the difference that extra bracing is installed allowing for stronger durability and better performance capabilities. They are common enough that they warrant their own hull category.

Special Variant: Icy Asteroid Hulls

Icy Asteroid Hulls are an exotic sort of planetoid hull with shortcomings considered by many to be less desirable than standard metallic meteors. Such hulls tend to lose mass depending on their proximity to a star. However, some sophont species have found ways to make the technology work. They are relatively rare and are considered a subclass of the planetoid hull classification.

History & Background (Dossier)

Planetoid Hulls are defined by their use of a planetoid or asteroid as the primary hull structure. They typically make use of metallic meteors although other kinds of planetoids may be used.

Special Planetoid Vessels of Note

Legends of the Sky Raiders - Sky Raiders: During the early stages of the First Imperium the Loeskalth culture absorbed a great deal of science and technology indirectly from the Vilani and founded a small empire which embraced, at its height, most of their home subsector.

About -4200, the Vilani consolidation destroyed the Loeskalth Empire and absorbed the civilization into the mainstream of Vilani culture. An aggressive and warlike race, the Loeskalth resisted but were ultimately overwhelmed.

Recent evidence has shown that the last pocket of Loeskalth resistance built a large asteroid starship which set off on a sublight voyage across the Great Rift after the final Vilani triumph. The descendants of the refugees on this ship later became the so-called Sky Raiders.

Selected Craft Using Planetoid Hulls

18 Representative Buffered Planetoid Hull configuration ships

Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Bay class Surveillance Vessel SI 6,000 11 Principality of Caledon 6 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Defender class Planetoid Monitor HMP 9,000 9 Distant Fringe 6 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Guardian class Asteroid Monitor HMPL 1,000 12 Geonee Confederation 1 1 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Hive Protector class System Defense Boat HSL 49,000 10 Maskai Empire 5 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Hukkert class Monitor HMP 50,000 12 Anubian Trade Coalition 6 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Knuckle Head class System Defense Monitor HMVL 1,000 8 Winston Democracy 4 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Lake class Surveillance Vessel SIS Varies (sample 9,789) 12 Principality of Caledon 1 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. MCS class Mobile Asteroid Base GF 10,000,000 14 Third Imperium 1 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Methuselah class System Defense Monitor HMS 750,000 12 Caliphate of Estalia 3 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Mossip class Destroyer Escort DE 1,000 13 Mnemosyne Principality 4 4 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Nara class Light Cruiser CM 28,000 12 Mapepire Cluster 2 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Obsidian class Asteroid Monitor HMP 22,800 12 Federation of Alsas 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Peset class Asteroid Monitor HMPL 1,000 11 Rimward Federation 2 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Quesha FR-6 class Buffered Asteroid Monitor HMPL 68,600 11 Sorority of Hygiea 2 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Rull class Light Cruiser CM 49,000 10 Mnemosyne Principality 1 1 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. System Defense Brick class Defense Drone UDQ 10 12 Second Imperium 7 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan smallcraft design. Temarn class Asteroid Monitor HMP 20,000 11 Yimin Jiti 2 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Uffan class Monitor HML 4,000 9 Uffan Strategic Space Forces 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design.

21 Representative Planetoid Hull configuration ships

Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Ancona class Destroyer DM 6,000 12 Glenauran Signatorate 3 3 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Caccil class Merchant TM 100,000 16 Aakho Pantocracy 2 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Empress Troyhune class Planetoid Monitor HMP 50,000 15 Third Imperium 6 0 Yes Yes. Published, canon starship design. Eurisko class Heavy Cruiser CH 60,900 14 Third Imperium 3 4 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Express Rock class Mail Drone XC 100 11 [[GeDeCo]] 0 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan smallcraft design. Fuelbag class Fuel Depot Drone UDX 10 12 Second Imperium 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan smallcraft design. Ice Rock class Asteroid Tanker QSF 980,000 15 Third Imperium 3 4 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Icepick class Fuel/Ice Harvesting Drone UDF 10 12 Second Imperium 7 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan smallcraft design. Ixobis class Dreadnought BP 200,000 13 Marlan Primate 2 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Mint class Mining Drone UDG 10 12 Second Imperium 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan smallcraft design. Pallad class Asteroid Scout SP 200 15 Third Imperium 2 3 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Planetoid Hauler class Cargo Ship WBC 990 9 Terra 1 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan spaceship design. Porton class Asteroid Monitor HMPL 351 11 Strend Cluster 6 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Sable class Heavy System Defense Monitor HMP 99,000 13 Strend Cluster 2 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. SH2K Frost G class Medium Asteroid Monitor HMP 20,000 11 Sorority of Hygiea 3 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. SH7K Fromaag class Heavy Asteroid Monitor HMP 70,000 11 Sorority of Hygiea 4 0 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Silver Spur class Scout SP 200 11 Council of the Wise 5 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Starbelt class Fleet Tender VTF 50,000 11 Trindel Confederacy 2 2 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Type M2M class Planetoid Battle Station HMP 5,000 10 Queendom Remnants 1 1 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design. Vrad class Generation Ship KCG 73 x 10^18 12 Two Thousand Worlds 1 0 Yes Yes. Published, canon starship design. Yesto class Light Cruiser CM 30,000 12 Principality of Mavuzo 3 3 No No. Unpublished, non-canon fan design.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This article was copied or excerpted from the following copyrighted sources and used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author.

• J. Andrew Keith. The Trail of the Sky Raiders (FASA, 1982), 23,53.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 332.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science