Rodgers class Skiff

Rodgers class Skiff
Type: AK Launch
Category	Smallcraft
Size	20 Tons
Hull Configuration	Needle Hull
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–7
Engineering
Computer	None
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Offensive	Sandcaster, Pulse laser, Missile launcher
Accommodations
Staterooms	2
Seats	4
Personnel
Crew	4
High/Mid Passengers	4
Payload
Cargo	3 Tons
Fuel tank	1 Tons
Construction
Construction Time	10 Months
Origin	Unofficial (world)
Price
Cost	MCr19.35
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	AK-2A20
Universal Ship Profile	AK-0102511-010000-10001-0
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Designer	Ronald B. Kline Jr.
Design System	High Guard
Era	1105
Reference	Adventures, Adventurers in the Unofficial System

The Rodgers class Skiff is a TL–7 Launch used in the Unofficial (world) system.

Description (Specifications)

It is a vessel with 2-G acceleration and J-0 performance with a streamlined 20 dton hull. It carries light armament and a defensive suite. It has a crew of 2 and carries 2 marines.

Image Repository

The classic lawn dart rocket, a streamlined needle. They frequently feature either the shiny silver chrome finish or lurid color scapes, of an aposematic warning nature. Replete with skulls and crossbones, they often cut a rather dramatic sight to behold.

General Description & Deck Plans

This is a surplus impounded vessel, a captured and re-flagged pirate ship. It has 2G's acceleration and a powerful factor 5 thorium fission reactor coupled with solar panels, a fuel cell and batteries which combine to produce 500MW which is just enough to power the laser pulsar in combat. It is modest with a spin habitat with one small craft stateroom in each end. The flight crew have one end and the two marines share the other. There is a three ton cargo bay.

Weapons: The rocket launcher has three ready missiles and storage for nine more in a magazine. The three ready loads are a probe, a HE dog fight missile with IR seeker, and a thermo nuclear Mk 48 ship killer torpedo, with radio link command guidance and optical terminal homing and home on jammer options.

The LADAR and laser communication array are fused with the multi-task CLAWS (complete, long axis weapons system) the laser array can be over powered and used as a single pulse weapon battery. This can be used for point defense against missiles with the appropriate software loaded in the model 1 computer. 2/4 maneuver, target, launch

The counter measures launcher has a water canister effective against laser and missiles, a IR nova flare cartridge, chaff/window canister for foiling targeting radars, and an ECM pod for decoying and jamming active seeking missiles.

Your mission is to capture enemy base/outpost and re-flag it. Colonization Assets

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	20 tons.
2.	Crew	2 crew.
3.	Performance	Propulsion: Jump-0 2-G acceleration 1.0 tons of fuel. Power Plant-5 1-EPs Agility-0
4.	Electronics	Model/1 ship computer.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint.
6.	Armament / Weaponry	The normal weapons fit-out for it is: Lasers: 1 pulse laser cannon Energy Weapons: None Particle Accelerators: None Meson Guns: None Missiles: 1 missile rack Other: None
7.	Defenses	Defensive Equipment: Ship Armors: None Meson Screens: None Nuclear Dampers: None Repulsors: None Other: 1 counter measures station
8.	Craft / Drones	none
9.	Fuel Treatment	none
10.	Cost	MCr19.35.
11.	Construction Time	10 months to build, 8 months in quantity.
12.	Remarks	Other Equipment: Cargo Bay: Standard cargo capacity amounts to 3.0 tons.

History & Background (Dossier)

Build by pirates from beyond the Shoals Planetoid Belt. Recently used in operations in orbit of the moon Tawnos.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

41 Representative Launch (AK) Classes

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Civilian Ship - Trader - Smallcraft - Type AK Launch

A

• Akkigish class Subsidized Merchant
• Amkarim class Trade Liner
• Andrew class Commercial Shuttle
• Anhk class Merchant

B

• Bloodwell class Merchant
• Borazio class Heavy Freighter

C

• Cihzicih class Transport
• Congo class Cargo Barge

D

• Dhaztuen class Far Merchant
• Doji Hoturi class Bulk Freighter

F

• Freespace Gateway class Freighter

G

• Gamma Haden class Liner
• Ghent class Subsidized Merchant
• Goliath class Provincial Freighter

• Guilder class Subsidized Merchant

J

• Jasper class Provincial Merchant
• Jelmirt Marquis class High Liner
• Jose Cadiz Royal Galleon class Cargo Carrier

K

• Khtukhao class Clan Transport
• Kolomyia class Fast Liner

L

• Last Armada class Launch
• Last Armada class Survey Shuttle
• Lightning class Frontier Merchant

M

• Mauripo class Subsidized Merchant
• Mavuzo class Super Freighter
• Mora class Freighter

P

• Palatine class Merchant Trader
• Petty class Subsidized Merchant

R

• Rodgers class Skiff

S

• Seeker class Armored Merchant
• Sirocco class Merchant Freighter
• Star*mart class Provincial Merchant
• Swordfish class Merchant

T

• Trader class Provincial Transport
• Type CT class Cargo Carrier
• Type R2 class Subsidized Merchant
• Type RL class Subsidized Merchant
• Type RL2 class Subsidized Merchant
• Tyrfing class Freighter

V

• VCS 898 class Replenishment Vessel
• Virtue class Light Freighter

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), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy