KU1a Fetch class Launch

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KU1a Fetch class Launch
Mavuzog Claws Symbol.png
Korsumug Empire vessel.
Type: UML Smallcraft
Category Smallcraft
Size 10 Tons
Hull Configuration Cone Hull
Streamlining Streamlined Hull
Tech Level TL–9
Engineering
Computer Model/1 (Model/0)
Jump J-0
Maneuver 2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints 1
Accommodations
Staterooms 0
Personnel
Crew 1
    Officers 1
High/Mid Passengers 0
Payload
Cargo 0/5 Tons
Fuel tank 0 Tons
Construction
Origin Korsumug Empire
Year Operational No information yet available.
End of Service Still in active service.
Price
Cost MCr6.160 (base)
MCr4.928 (qty)
Architect fee MCrAde Stewart
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile G-1A20
Images
Blueprint No
Illustration Yes
Source
Also see Utility Craft
Canon Published, fan design
Era 1105
Reference Fan: Ade Alagoric Stewart
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Book 5 High Guard

The KU1a Fetch class Launch is a noncombatant smallcraft.

Description (Specifications)

The Launch is designed to ferry passengers and incidental cargoes between locations.

  • The vessel is a Jansa design.
  • It is typically crewed by Jaibok.
  • It is a TL–9 design.

Image Repository

KU1a Fetch class Launch.
KU1a Launch.png

General Description

The Fetch class is a utility vessel with 2-G performance. It is supplied unarmed, though it is common practise for crews to retrofit weapon systems. It has a broadly cone-shaped profile and is fully streamlined, allowing atmospheric operations and enabling it to perform surface landings.

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 Launch is constructed using a 10 dTon hull built in a generally cone-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined with limited airfoil surfaces, giving average atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by its onboard gravitic systems.
2. Crew Total Crew Complement: 1
  • x1 Pilot.
  • A copilots position is located adjacent to the pilot.

Accommodations

The main compartment has x10 removable passenger acceleration couches.

The vessel is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and has full life support and environmental systems.

  • There are internal monitoring and security systems within the vessel.
  • There are x12 small emergency lockers, two located within the cockpit and ten built into the structures of the couches.
3. Performance The vessel mounts a Maneuver-2 drive and a Power Plant-2, giving performance of 2-G acceleration and producing 0.2 Energy Points. 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 cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 Computer: no backup Computer is installed.
5. Hardpoints x1 hardpoint.
  • There is one unused hardpoint and 1 dTon is set aside for fire control.
6. Armament The Launch is unarmed.
7. Defenses The hull is unarmored.
  • The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8. Craft The vessel carries no subcraft.
9. Fuel Treatment The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1 dTon.
10. Cost The basic cost of the vessel is MCr6.160.
  • 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 MCr4.928.
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 If the passenger couches are removed the craft has a cargo capacity of up to 5 dTons.

History & Background (Dossier)

Fetch class Launches are common utility craft of the Korsumug Empire.

  • Huge numbers of the craft have been built.

The vessel was designed by the Jansa, a minor race closely allied with the Jaibok.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: The Fetch class is supplied unarmed: it is normal practise for crews to add armaments to the hardpoint. The vessel does not have sufficient power for lasers or energy weapons, restricting the options to missiles or sandcasters.

Class Naming Practice/s: Vessels of the Korsumug Empire are given alphanumeric designations and callsigns by other interstellar states. KU refers to 'Korsumug Utility Craft' (a designation applied to all Korsumug non-combat smallcraft), 1 is a type indicator, and 'a' refers to the version of the vessel (lower letters generally indicating lower tech variants). 'Fetch' is an easy to remember name to help with rapid identification.

Individual vessels are generally named by their crew.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Civilian Ship - Utility Craft - Smallcraft - Launch: Civilian Ship- Smallcraft - Utility Craft:

  1. Type UML class Launch
    1. Constance class Launch
    2. Damgarrii class Passenger Launch
    3. Generic Launch / Lifeboat
    4. Gillow class Launch
    5. Last Armada class Launch
    6. Rodgers class Skiff
    7. Stead class Modular Launch
    8. Venters class Launch


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