Merant class Fleet Tender

Merant class Fleet Tender
Distant Fringe vessel.
Type: VTB Battle Tender
Category	BCS
Size	12,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	Dispersed Structure Hull
Streamlining	Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–10
Engineering
Computer	Model/4 fib
Jump	J-1
Maneuver	1 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	120
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	64 (+300 marines)
Officers	42
Enlisted	322
Marines	300
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	100.0 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Rimward Federation
Price
Cost	MCr4,614.939 (base) MCr3,691.951 (discounted)
Architect fee	MCr46.149
Statistics
Images
Blueprint	No.
Illustration	No
Source
Also see	Subcraft Carrier - Tender
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	Ron Kline Design
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Merant class Fleet Tender is an auxiliary warship.

• It is a military ship and a Fleet Tender.
• Please also see AAB article: Rimward Federation Navy
• Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
• Please also see AAB article: Warships of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Specifications)

The Fleet Tender is a military transport vessel that sees service within the Rimward Federation and among the rimward worlds of the Distant Fringe. It is classified as a Battle Tender and is constructed as a long-range design.

• The vessel is a TL 10 design.

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General Description & Deck Plans

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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	12,000 tons. The Fleet Tender is constructed using a 12000 dTon hull built in a dispersed structure configuration. Individual sections of the ship are divided into nodes and modules. These 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.
2.	Crew	64 crew. The Fleet Tender requires 64 crew: 11x command, 12x engineering, 16x gunnery, 24x service, and 1x flight. The vessel typically carries a complement of 300 marines.
3.	Performance	Propulsion: Jump-1 1-G acceleration Power Plant-2 240-EPs Agility-0 The vessel mounts a DeVoss-type jump-1 drive, a maneuver-1 drive, and a power plant 2, giving performance of jump-1 and 1G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 0 and an emergency agility of 1. There is fuel tankage of 5040 dTons, sufficient for four jump-1s and giving the power plant four weeks duration. The vessel is fitted with a fuel purification plant. The engineering section has a main control room. The jump drive creates a jump bubble around the vessel. The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.
4.	Electronics	Model/4 fib computer. Main Section: Adjacent to the bridge is a computer model/4 fib: the vessel carries an additional backup computer model/4 fib. There are 188 staterooms. Cargo capacity amounts to 100 dTons. Double occupancy accommodations are required for all except the command crew. 150 staterooms are available ships troops. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an advanced sensor array, full ECM, and an avionics suite.
5.	Hardpoints	x120 hardpoints.
6.	Armament	The ship is fitted with 3x 100 dTon bays and 90 turrets. These are grouped into: One particle accelerator bay Two missile bays Four beam laser batteries, each consisting of 10 linked triple turrets Two plasma gun batteries, each consisting of 10 linked dual turrets
7.	Defenses	Three sandcaster batteries, each consisting of 10 linked triple turrets
8.	Craft	The ship carries a 40 dTon Recovery Craft in a dedicated hanger. The vessel can carry up to four Peset class Monitors The vessel can carry up to two Nassin class SDBs These clamp onto fixed mountings located across the hull.
9.	Fuel Treatment	A fuel refinery, this hull can not skim fuel
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel, complete with a Recovery Craft, is MCr4,614.939. The design is exclusive to the armed forces of the Rimward Federation. Architectural plans for privately constructed vessels must be drawn up, at a cost of MCr46.419. 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 MCr3,691.951.
11.	Construction Time	42 months (165 weeks) for a single unit, 33 months (132 weeks) in quantity.
12.	Comments	Transports fighting craft into battle Standard cargo capacity amounts to 100.0 tons.

History & Background (Dossier)

Designed and built at Dal Hallen for the Rimward Federation. Merant class Fleet Tenders move between strategic locations, supporting and reinforcing fleet elements for coordinated defense of the Federation. They are constructed as dispersed structure hulls for rapid deployment and recovery of carried craft. Two in service. Cargo is often allocated to grav vehicles to transport the marine battalion.

• They have fuel refineries but are incapable of performing wilderness refueling operations. They are able to convert skimmed hydrogen (provided to them by vessels such as tankers) into refined fuel.

Distant Fringe Vessels

The Distant Fringe is said to be a far trailing-rimward area inhabited by colonists and refugees originating on Terra. The region is extremely isolated, separated from the rest of Charted Space by vast, almost uncrossable rifts that were once broached by a system of calibration Points and the use of tankers. Those few academics within Charted Space who have found references to the Distant Fringe regard it as little more than a tall tale. Likewise, many of the inhabitants of the Distant Fringe believe the existence of Charted Space to be mythical.

Vessels originating within the Distant Fringe are very rarely encountered outside of the region. However, misjumps do occur and anomalies with bizarre spacetime and Jumpspace effects exist: as such, craft of this type are not entirely unknown within Charted Space.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: No information yet available.

Class Naming Practice/s: Each vessel within the class is named by the government of the state that produces it. They generally draw on traditional naming protocols and it is not uncommon for a historical class name to be reused.

• Individual vessels within the class are issued specific serial numbers and transponder codes.
• Naming a ship is considered a serious affair and is generally accompanied by a traditional ceremony, usually pouring a local beverage over the bows of the craft. Starfarers tend to be superstitious folk and a ship with a frivolous name is considered "unlucky".

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Military Ship - Warship - Battle Tender:

1. Type VTB class Battle Tender
   1. Aatsdivr class Battle Tender
   2. Auliaau class Battle Carrier
   3. Cleon class Battle Tender
   4. Daprolix class Battle Tender
   5. Maggart class Battle Tender
   6. Merant class Fleet Tender
   7. Mie class Fleet Tender
   8. Monica class Battle Tender
   9. Oni class Fleet Tender
   10. Senator class Battle Tender
   11. Triumph class Battle Tender

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• 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