Last Armada class Fleet Tender

Last Armada class Fleet Tender
Unpublished, non-canon fan design.
Type: VTB Fleet Tender
Size	99,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[{{{hull}}}]]
Tech Level	TL–11
Engineering
Computer	No information yet available.
Jump	J-2
Maneuver	1 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	990
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	465
Officers	51
Enlisted	414
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	299.5 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Terran Confederation
Year Operational	No information yet available.
Price
Cost	MCr38,511.502 (base) MCr30,809.202 (qty)
Architect fee	MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	No information yet available.
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Last Armada class Fleet Tender is a warship.

• It is a military ship and a Fleet Tender.

Description (Specifications)

The Fleet Tender is a historical design produced in the Terran Confederation during the early 22nd century. These ships fled the Destruction of Terra at the hands of the Vilani Imperium in 2147AD, forming the fighting core of the Last Armada and carrying with them the last remnants of Terran culture and independence. The class were extremely sturdy and reliable and endured more than a century of spaceflight. They ultimately found and settled the Demon Cluster, the Distant Fringe. The vessel is constructed as a long-range design and has extended range capability.

• The vessel is a TL-11 design.

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 craft) 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	TBD tons.
2.	Crew	TBD crew.
3.	Performance	TBD
4.	Electronics	TBD
5.	Hardpoints	TBD hardpoints.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for it is: No information yet available. No additional information yet available.
7.	Defenses	No information yet available. No additional information yet available.
8.	Craft	TBD
9.	Fuel Treatment	TBD
10.	Cost	MCrTBD.
11.	Construction Time	TBD months to build, TBD months in quantity.
12.	Comments	TBD Standard cargo capacity amounts to TBD tons.

Hull

It is an unarmored, dispersed structure hull, and is equipped with on board purification. There are 233 lowberths for a complete frozen watch. These crew are used to break up the duration of the voyage and divide the labor over many. It has 2,000 GenPods – Artificial Gestation Units. It carries a pair of model 5fib computers. They are not armed and is capable of 1G acceleration and has 1 agility rating.

History & Background (Dossier)

Fleet Tenders were openly constructed at Terran-controlled shipyards, and once in a spaceworthy condition were crewed with specially chosen personnel in preparation for "proofing trials". They were then jumped to the Expedition's private port facilities in the empty systems to rimward of Terra. Once there, their fitting out was completed, their specialist equipment (such as their complement of GenPods) was installed, and they were laid up against the Expedition's future needs.

These ships fled Earth as part of the Expedition, that fled the Destruction of Terra at the hands of the Vilani Imperium in 2147AD, carrying with them the last remnants of Terran culture and independence, and ultimately settled the Distant Fringe.

It was designed with enough internal fuel for two consecutive jump-2s and is fitted with jump 2 drop tanks, in order to enable it to cross larger rift density regions. Auxiliary power plant fuel for an addition 28 days is also carried. It is as much a tanker as a fleet tender. Limited by the constraints of TL–11 technology, it can only carry two 60 ton shuttles, a 38,000 ton heavy cruiser, two 200 ton scouts, and a 1,200 ton escort.

Ships of this class nearly caused the collapse of the Expedition before it had started. Following the Battle of Agidda in 2125AD, and the "false war" that followed, the Terran navy was desperately short of capital ships - the lack of effective combat elements caused the war to descend into nearly a decade of entrenched skirmishing and long-range raiding. People began to notice that large warships and support vessels, noted as having been constructed and released, had simply vanished. Entire classes of capital vessels, it seemed, had been "lost in jump". Rather more sinisterly, individuals bearing striking resemblances to "missing in jump" crewmembers repeatedly reappeared.

Journalistic and governmental investigations into the missing ships and the conspiracy that they represented came very close to uncovering the covert activities of the Expedition. A huge public scandal would have resulted if it had been revealed that an entire fleet-in-being was being retained for private use, a fleet that could easily have broken open the Vilani border and given the Terrans an overwhelming victory. That sort of scandal brings down governments.

It was only through the judicious intervention of senior officials, the actions of determined individuals, and outright criminal activity that secrecy was maintained and the hoarded vessels of the Expedition avoided sequestration.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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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.

• 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