Servant class Launch

Servant class Launch
Type: A Trader
Category	Smallcraft
Size	10 Tons
Hull Configuration	Cylinder Hull
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–9
Engineering
Computer	Model/1
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	2 G
Fuel Treatment	Scoops
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Seats	11
Personnel
Crew	1
High/Mid Passengers	10
Payload
Cargo	0 Tons
Fuel tank	1 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Price
Cost	MCr6.16
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	A-1A20
Universal Ship Profile	A-0202210–000000–00000-0
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Designer	Ade Stewart
Design System	High Guard
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: Ade Stewart

The Servant class Launch is a TL–9 noncombatant smallcraft. It is a common service craft carried aboard larger vessels.

Description (Specifications)

The Launch is designed to ferry passengers and incidental cargoes between locations.

The class are ubiquitous, manufactured in shipyards by the hundred.

Image Repository

Servant class Launch.

General Description

The Servant class is a utility vessel with 2-G performance. It is supplied unarmed, though it is common practice for crews to retrofit weapon systems. It has a broadly cone-shaped profile and is fully streamlined, allowing atmospheric operations and enabling it to perform surface landings.

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	The Servant class Launch is constructed using a 10 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined, giving reasonable atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by airfoil surfaces and its onboard gravitic systems. Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. The vessel has an airlock. The vessel has a sturdy retractable landing legs, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: 1 x1 Pilot. A copilot position is also provided. The crew occupy a small cockpit cabin at the front of the ship. Accommodations The main compartment has x10 removable passenger acceleration couches. Acceleration couches are removed in pairs. Each pair removed from the main compartment creates 1 Ton of cargo space. The vessel is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and has full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems within the vessel. There are x12 small emergency lockers, two located within the cockpit and ten built into the structures of the couches.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Maneuver-2 drive and a Power Plant-2, giving performance of 2-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 2. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient to give the power plant approximately 4 weeks duration. The engineering section is controlled from the cockpit. Access to the machinery can be gained via a sealable hatch.
4.	Electronics	The cockpit contains x2 side by side acceleration couches, both with control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 Computer: no backup Computer is installed. The computer functions as a Model/0 due to the lack of a bridge. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a basic sensor array, and has an Avionics suite. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint. There is one unused hardpoint and 1 dTon is set aside for fire control.
6.	Armament	The Launch is unarmed.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft	The vessel carries no subcraft.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1 dTon. The hull is fitted with fuel scoops. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr6.160. The ship is a standard design. Detailed architectural plans are widely available and no design fee is chargeable. If multiple examples of the design are ordered all of the ships in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price of each unit to MCr4.928.
11.	Construction Time	24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard. Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12.	Comments	If the passenger couches are removed the craft has a cargo capacity of up to 5 dTons.

History & Background (Dossier)

Launches are extremely common utility craft. The Servant class is a smaller example of the type.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities:
The Servant class is supplied unarmed: it is normal practice for crews to add armaments to the hardpoint. The vessel does not have sufficient power for lasers or energy weapons, restricting the options to missiles or sandcasters.

Class Naming Practice/s:
Launches do not generally have official names, though they may be named by their crews.

• Individual vessels are issued specific serial numbers and transponder codes.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

18 Representative Launch (A) Classes

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

Civilian Ship - Trader - Smallcraft - Type A Launch

A

• Apollo class Runabout

B

• Bluestone class Cargo Barge

C

• Caccil class Merchant

D

• Damgarrii class Passenger Launch
• Darlene class Gig
• Delta Princess class Merchant

L

• Launch
• Liberty III class Independent Merchant
• Lushina class Fast Cutter

P

• Port of Nickle Eugenia class Bulk Container Vessel
• Pratt class Gig

R

• Refugee Pilgrim class Transport

• Reynolds Meyers Briggs class Heavy Merchant
• Rhapsody class Merchant Trader

S

• Seragh class Cutter
• Servant class Launch

T

• Type A class Free Trader
• Type A2 class Far Trader

References

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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules: Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 12-23. Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-36.

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Deekay Krause