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* Individual sections of the ship are divided by [[Bulkhead Wall|bulkhead wall]]s.
 
* The craft has an [[airlock]]. The interior (enclosed) [[cargo hold]] is accessed by large doors.
 
* The craft has an [[airlock]]. The interior (enclosed) [[cargo hold]] is accessed by large doors.

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Tachyon class
Distant Fringe Logo.gif
Distant Fringe vessel.
Type: AL Merchant
Category [[ACS]]
Size 100 Tons
Hull Configuration Flattened Sphere Hull
Streamlining Airframe Hull
Tech Level TL–9
Engineering
Computer Model/2
Jump Jump-1
Maneuver 2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints 1
Offensive Beam Lasers
Defensive Sandcasters
Accommodations
Staterooms 2
Personnel
Crew 3
    Officers 1
    Enlisted 2
High/Mid Passengers 0
Payload
Cargo Hold 40 Tons
Fuel tank 12 Tons
Carried craft x1 Air/Raft
Construction
Origin Distant Fringe
End of Service Current
Price
Cost MCr37.888
Cost in Quantity MCr30.911
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile M-AA21
Universal Ship Profile AL–1612210–020000–20000-0
Images
Blueprint No
Illustration Yes
Source
Also see Spaceplane
Canon Unpublished, non-canon design
Designer Ade Stewart
Design System High Guard
Era Milieu 1116
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Tachyon class Light Trader is a mercantile starship.

Description (Specifications)

A generic class of civilian vessel, the Light Trader is a small commercial merchant ship designed to carry incidental cargo. It is typically encountered operating within clusters of stars within the Distant Fringe region. It is classified as a Merchant and is constructed as an X-Range design. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.

  • The vessel is a TL-9 design.

Image Repository

Tachyon class Light Trader.jpg
A Tachyon class Light Trader.

General Description

No information yet available.

Tachyon class Light Trader Plan.jpg
A basic deck plan of the vessel indicating the general layout and positioning of major elements.

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. [1]

Basic Ship Characteristics [2]
No. Category Remarks
1. Tonnage / Hull The Tachyon class is constructed using a 100 Ton hull built in a fattened sphere configuration. The hull is an airframe, giving excellent atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by airfoil surfaces and its onboard gravitic systems.
2. Crew x3 crew.

The Light Trader requires requires x3 crew: x1 command, x1 engineering, and x1 gunner.

3. Performance / Engineering Propulsion:

The vessel mounts a DeVoss-type jump-1 drive, a maneuver-2 drive, and a power plant 2, giving performance of jump-1 and 2G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 0 and an emergency agility of 2. There is fuel tankage of 12 dTons, sufficient for one jump-1 and giving the power plant four weeks duration. The ship carries a collapsible fuel tank with a capacity of 20 dTons.

  • The jump drive utilises a lanthanum hull grid.
  • The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.
4. Main Section / Electronics Model/TBD fib computer.

Adjacent to the bridge is a computer model/1. There are 2 staterooms. The commander has their own room, while the engineer and gunner share accommodations. The stowed collapsible fuel tank has a volume of 1 dTon: 1 dTon of internal space is set aside to house it. Cargo capacity amounts to 40 dTons.

  • The vessel is fitted with communications equipment and a sensor array.
5. Hardpoints xTBD hardpoints.
6. Armament / Weaponry The normal weapons fit-out for it is:
  • The ship has a single mixed triple turret mounting two beam lasers and one missile rack.
7. Defenses No information yet available.
8. Craft / Subcraft The ship has a dedicated hangar able to house a vehicle of up to 4-dTons, though no subcraft or vehicles are provided.
9. Fuel Treatment TBD
10. Cost MCrTBD.

The basic cost of the vessel is MCr37.886.

  • 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 their price to MCr30.309.
11. Construction Time TBD months to build, TBD months in quantity.
12. Remarks No information yet available.
  • Standard cargo capacity amounts to TBD.0 tons.

History & Background (Dossier)

A small merchant trader designed to carry incidental consignments of cargo. 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.

Distant Fringe Vessels

The Distant Fringe is said to be a far spinward-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.[3]

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.[4]

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Scout/Courier:

  1. Type TBD class Vessel
    1. Asia class Scout

References & Contributors (Sources)

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  1. ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
  2. ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
  3. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
  4. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
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