Fringian Commercial Tender

Commercial Tender
Type: GE Tender
Size	3,500 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[{{{hull}}}]]
Tech Level	TL–11
Engineering
Computer
Jump	J-2
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	35
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	43
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	66 Tons Hangers 1,100 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	[[Distant Fringe]]
Price
Cost	MCr2,043.918 (base) MCr1,635.135 (discounted)
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design

Description / Specifications

A generic class of civilian vessel, the Commercial Tender is a commercial transport typically encountered operating within clusters of stars within the Distant Fringe region. It is classified as a Non-Mercantile Commercial Ship and is constructed as a conventional design. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.

• The vessel is a TL 11 design.
• Vessels of this type are employed in the Recovery Trade.
• A comparable design is the Orowani Commercial Tender.

Hull

The Commercial Tender is constructed using a 3500 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined: the ship is equipped with fuel scoops.

• Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. Sections of the ship can be isolated in the event of an emergency.
• The hull includes internal grav plates and inertial compensators. All accessible sections of the hull have life support.

Engineering

The vessel mounts a DeVoss-type jump-2 drive, a maneuver-2 drive, and a power plant 2, giving performance of jump-2 and 2G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 2. There is fuel tankage of 1170 dTons, sufficient for one jump-2 and giving the power plant four weeks duration. 400 dTons of fuel is commercially available. The vessel is fitted with a purification plant.

• The engineering section has a main control room.
• The jump drive utilises a lanthanum hull grid.
• The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.

Main Section

Adjacent to the bridge is a computer model/2: the vessel carries an additional backup computer model/2. The vessel has a secure locker with a capacity of 3 dTons. There are 100 staterooms and 100 low berths. Single occupancy accommodations are provided for all the crew: 57 staterooms are available to paying passengers. Dedicated internal cargo capacity amounts to 66 dTons. Internal commercial hanger space amounts to 1100 dTons, though the Ship’s Boats take up nearly 100 dTons of this.

• The vessel is fitted with communications equipment and a sensor suite.

Crew

The Commercial Tender requires 43 crew: 9x command, 6x engineering, 7x gunnery, and 12x service, of which two serve as flight crew for the subcraft when required. In addition there are 8x passenger stewards and a medic.

• The vessel includes a variable number of engineers, technicians and specialists who undertake work on vessels berthed within the commercial hanger. Each receives their own stateroom, reducing the accommodations available to paying passengers.

Weapons

The ship is fitted with 32 turrets. These are grouped into:

• two sandcaster batteries, each consisting of 10 linked triple turrets
• two missile batteries, each consisting of 6 linked triple turrets

There are 3 unused hardpoints and 3 tons of internal space is set aside for fire control.

Hangers / Subcraft

Internal commercial hanger space amounts to 1100 dTons. Ships berthing within the hanger require their displacement tonnage x1.1 in terms of space: ships of greater than 500 dTons are generally unable to enter the hanger due to size restrictions.

The ship carries two 40 dTon Ship’s Boats, housed within the commercial hangers. It is not uncommon for Commercial Tenders to dispose of these vessels, replacing them with a single smaller subcraft such as a Pinnace.

Cost

The basic cost of the vessel, complete with its complement of subcraft, is MCr2043.918.

• All the craft are standard designs. 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 their price to MCr1635.135.

History / Background

The design is representative and a large number of variants exist, particularly with regard to the carried subcraft, allotted weapons systems, onboard electronics, and the fit out of internal spaces.

See also: Ships of the Distant Fringe

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