TC00a Porter class Gig

The TC00a Porter class Gig is a noncombatant smallcraft.

• It is a Civilian Ship, a Utility Craft, and a Gig.
• It is a common service craft carried aboard larger vessels.

Description (Specifications)

The Porter class is a utility smallcraft of the Trooles Confederation.

• The class is operated by the Trooles Confederation Navy.
• It is typically crewed by humans.
• It is a TL–10 design.

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Porter class Gig

General Description

The Porter class is a utility vessel with 2-G performance. 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 Gig is constructed using a 20 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined, giving average atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by 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 copilots position is located adjacent to the pilot. Accommodations The main compartment has x20 removable passenger acceleration couches. 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 x22 small emergency lockers, two located within the cockpit and one built into the structures of each acceleration couch.
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 18 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 acceleration couches and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/2 Computer: no backup Computer is installed. The computer functions as a Model/1 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.
6.	Armament	The Launch is unarmed.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. x1 triple Sandcaster turret, forming a single battery of 1 turret.
8.	Craft	The vessel carries no subcraft.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1 dTon. The hull is fitted with integral fuel scoops. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment and can work efficiently using unrefined fuel.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr16.8 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 MCr13.44
11.	Construction Time	24 weeks 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	The vessel has 2 dTons of cargo space. If the passenger couches are removed the craft has a cargo capacity of up to 12 dTons. Couches must be removed in pairs: each pair of couches removed creates 1 dTon of cargo space.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities:
No information yet available.

Class Naming Practice/s:
Vessels of the Trooles Confederation are given alphanumeric designations and callsigns by other interstellar states. TC refers to Trooles Confederation (a designation applied to all Confederation combat units), 00 is a combat smallcraft designation, and when it is used 'a' refers to the version of the vessel, relating to its construction tech level. Type codes will often repeat: 'Porter' is an easy to remember class name to identify the specific type of vessel.

• Individual vessels are generally named by their pilots.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science