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Launch
Unpublished, non-canon fan design.
Type: U Smallcraft
Size	50 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[Conical Hull]]
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–9
Engineering
Computer	Model/1
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	1
Officers	1
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	40 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Distant Fringe
Year Operational	No information yet available.
Price
Cost	MCr18.850 (base) MCr15.080 (qty)
Architect fee	MCrAde Stewart
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	QY-5A20
Images
Blueprint	No
Source
Also see	Lifeboat
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Reference	Ade Alagoric Stewart
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Book 5 High Guard

The Launch is a noncombatant smallcraft.

It is a Civilian Ship and an Auxiliary.
Please also see: Ships of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Specifications)

The Launch is designed to transport passengers in a variety of circumstances. It uses the same basic hull as the Lifeboat. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.

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) when necessary. ^[1]

Basic Ship Characteristics ^[2]
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage	The Launch is constructed using a 50 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving improved atmospheric performance. Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. The vessel has full life support and environmental systems. The vessel has a sturdy retractable undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: 1 x1 pilot. If the vessel is carried as a small craft, this individual serves as service crew aboard the parent vessel when not required for piloting duties. Accommodations The cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment. There is 1 small stateroom. This contains a small fresher. It serves as an office, galley or medical bay as necessary. The vessel has an airlock. There are x3 small emergency lockers.
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 4 weeks duration. The engineering section is controlled from the cockpit. Access to the machinery can be gained via a sealable hatch.
4.	Electronics	The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 computer: no backup computer is installed. 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. The Lifeboat is not fitted with defensive systems.
8.	Craft	The vessel carries no subcraft.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1 dTon. The hull is fitted with fuel scoops. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr18.850. 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 MCr15.080.
11.	Construction Time	24 weeks (5.5 months) 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	Cargo capacity amounts to 40 dTons.

History & Background (Dossier)

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

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Different examples of the design are known by many different names but all have very similar performance characteristics and capabilities.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Launch:

Type U class Launch
1. Damgarrii class Passenger Launch
2. Constance class Launch
3. Gillow class Launch
4. Last Armada class Launch

Image Repository

Launch.

References & Contributors / Sources

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CT Book 5 "High Guard", GDW, 1980.
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

↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.

[1] Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.

[2] Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.

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+| The Launch is constructed using a 50 [[Ton|dTon]] [[hull]] built in a generally [[Cone Hull|cone-shaped]] configuration. The [[hull]] is fully [[Streamlined Hull|streamlined]] and has airfoil surfaces, giving improved [[Atmosphere|atmospheric]] performance.
 * Individual sections of the ship are divided by [[Bulkhead Wall|bulkhead wall]]s.
 * Accessible areas of the [[hull]] are fitted with [[grav plate]]s and [[inertial compensator]]s. The vessel has full [[Life Support|life support]] and environmental systems.