Commuter class Gig
| Commuter class Gig | |
|---|---|
| Type: UMG Gig | |
| Category | ACS |
| Size | 5 Tons |
| Hull Configuration | Close Structure Hull |
| Streamlining | Cluster Hull |
| Tech Level | TL–9 |
| Engineering | |
| Computer | Model/1 |
| Jump | J-0 |
| Maneuver | 1 G |
| Fuel Treatment | none |
| Armaments | |
| Hardpoints | 1 firmpoint |
| Accommodations | |
| Staterooms | 0 |
| Seats | 4 |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 1 |
| High/Mid Passengers | 4 |
| Payload | |
| Cargo | 2.175 Tons |
| Fuel tank | 0.025 Tons |
| Construction | |
| Construction Time | 0.006 Months |
| Origin | unknown |
| Price | |
| Cost | MCr0.18 |
| Statistics | |
| Quick Ship Profile | UMG-15C10 |
| Universal Ship Profile | UMG-95601C |
| Images | |
| Blueprint | No |
| Illustration | No |
| Source | |
| Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
| Designer | Adrian Tymes |
| Design System | Mongoose 2nd |
| Reference | Fan: Adrian Tymes |
The Commuter class Gig is a civilian gig.
Description[edit]
Sold as a commuter vehicle to the residents of orbital colonies, or where users have reason to travel to and from the moons of a world, this is a general-purpose utility vehicle for use when tasks must be performed at a certain location, and neither remote meetings nor teleoperation will suffice. The Commuter class Gig is a very basic vessel which is unpleasant to operate for days on end, but it is not designed for long-duration voyages.
Extremely functional, the Commuter class Gig is reliable and - above all - cheap.
Image Repository[edit]
Not available at this time.
General Description & Deck Plans[edit]
Not available at this time.
Basic Ship Characteristics[edit]
Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. [1]
| Basic Ship Characteristics [2] | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Category | Remarks |
| 1. | Tonnage / Hull | Tonnage: 5 tons (standard). 67.5 cubic meters. Close Structure Cluster Hull.
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| 2. | Crew | Crew: 1 Pilot. |
| 3. | Performance | Acceleration: 1-G maneuver drive installed.
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| 4. | Electronics | Model/1 ship computer. |
| 5. | Hardpoints | No hardpoints, 1 firmpoint. |
| 6. | Armament | None. |
| 7. | Defenses | None. |
| 8. | Craft | None (aside from itself). Vacc suits required for EVA (extra-vehicle activity). Rescue Balls for crew escape normally carried. |
| 9. | Fuel Treatment | It is not typically equipped with a fuel purification plant or fuel scoops. |
| 10. | Cost | MCr0.18 (no architect's fees, those having long since been paid). MCr0.152 in quantity. Usually only manufactured in quantity. |
| 11. | Construction Time | 4 hours standard, 3 in quantity. Usually only manufactured in quantity. |
| 12. | Remarks | One of the lowest-cost smallcraft in Charted Space. |
History & Background[edit]
The origin of the Commuter class Gig is lost to time. Some claim that this class, or smallcraft essentially equivalent, were operating as long ago as the Vilani Hegemony or at least the First Imperium. Regardless, it is common enough to escape notice.
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]
Ship Interior Details: As with many of the smallest smallcraft, the interior is one giant compartment. The maneuver drive pods to either side swing open to allow entrance, and seal airtight otherwise; there is also an iris valve to the rear. Immediately in front of this entrance lie two benches seating two passengers. Stepping around the forward bench gives access to the pilot seat and control console up front. Cargo goes in spare room in the back, accessed either by stepping around the rear bench or via the iris valve.
Many models substitute a personal computing device interface for the control console, often little more than a plastic or rubber holder for a hand computer keyed to the smallcraft. In such cases, convenient operation is impossible without an authorized computer, as an anti-theft device (synchronizing a new device remains possible as a backup, but generally requires several minutes of prolonged physical proximity after gaining entry - forced entry will send an alert to all authorized computing devices within comms range - and sometimes is only allowed after the smallcraft has not connected to an authorized computing device for at least a full day). Higher technology level versions sometimes substitute a 1 to 2 meter fiber optic cable with an interface wafer at the end, to plug into a wafer jack with an authorized brainprint, or wireless communications to a neural jack inside an authorized user's head.
Although this is technically a spacecraft, the number of operators who do not have other spacecraft experience means that many do not use standard shipboard directions while aboard a Commuter class Gig: toward the rear is "back" instead of "aft", the direction of onboard gravity is "down" rather than "ventral", and so forth.
Class Naming Practice/s: Being so common, most do not have names.
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
0 Representative Gig (UMG) Classes[edit]
References[edit]
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This ship was designed using Mongoose 2nd ship design rules.
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- Author: Adrian Tymes
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.