Consortium class Bulk Freighter

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Consortium class Bulk Freighter
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A Product of Clatt (world)
Type: MS Bulk Commercial Freighter
Category FCS
Size 400,000 Tons
Hull Configuration Dispersed Structure Hull
Streamlining Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level TL–15
Engineering
Computer Model/9 fibx2
Jump J-6
Maneuver 1 G
Armaments
Hardpoints 4,000
Accommodations
Staterooms 0
Personnel
Crew 2,674
High/Mid Passengers 0
Payload
Cargo 2,401.5 Tons
Fuel tank 0 Tons
Construction
Origin Tomon Trade Federation
Manufacturer Trade Federal Contracts LLC
Year Operational Unknown
End of Service Still in active service.
Price
Cost MCr227,294.577
Qty: MCr 181,835.662
Architect fee MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile VC-0NP64
Images
Blueprint No
Illustration No
Source
Also see Subcraft Carrier - Carrier
Canon Published, fan design
Era 1105
Reference Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr.
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Consortium class Bulk Freighter has been modified to carry some weapons and transport military vessels. It has been pressed into service as a warship.

Description (Specifications)

It is a vessel with 1-G and J-6 performance with a Unstreamlined Dispersed Structure Hull. This class serves with the fleets of the Tomon Trade Federation. These vessels are built one at a time at the orbital shipyards over Clatt (world). First, and foremost these vessels work trade routes for massive amounts of bulk cargo. Passengers are seldom a major consideration and these ships are hardly designed for comfort. Spartan and utilitarian they serve the bottom line and keeping the Trade Federation profitable. Several more advanced ports with military bases lack the ability to build ships capable of transporting their deadly cargo of combat vessels. The modular design can be adapted, hauling four 10,000 Battle Riders is typical for this class when deployed in this role. The vessels immense range grants a powerful strategic advantage over more primitive warships. The dispersed structure hull is selected to allow all fighters and combat vessels to launch and recover as quickly as possible. It is incapable of wilderness refueling on its own and is dependent on fleet logistical assets. Its own subcraft can skim fuel for it, and it has its own fuel refineries for on board fuel purification. There is a back-up Model/9 fib ship computer.

  • It carries heavy armament and a powerful defensive suite. The hull is unarmored, and relies on fifty sand caster batteries and ten repulsor bays for defense. The ship has factor 9 meson screens and factor 9 nuclear dampers with full back up units on stand by, in the event of catastrophic failures. The weapon load out is keyed to defensive fire control to screen missile strikes and fighter attacks. The primary offensive effort are the 220 compact factor 9 missile bays, ten particle accelerator bays and ten meson gun bays, fifty laser batteries and fifty fusion gun batteries.
  • It ordinarily carries many subcraft and drones when needed. Four hundred shipboard security specialists resist boarding. They have 21 drop capsules at their disposal. There are four 20dton Long Boats, four 4dton Grav APCs, and four 10,000 Battle Riders carried in the baseline configuration, pending refits.
  • It has a 2674 sophont crew.

Image Repository

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General Description & Deck Plans

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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 400,000 tons.
2. Crew x2,674 crew which includes 200 command, 600 engineering, 659 gunnery, 15 flight, 800 service, and 400 security.
3. Performance / Engineering Propulsion:
4. Main Section / Electronics 2xModel/9 fib ship computers.
5. Hardpoints x4,000 hardpoints.
6. Armament / Weaponry The normal weapons fit-out for it is:
7. Defenses Defensive Equipment:
8. Craft / Drones Craft: 4 x 20T Long Boat, 4 x 4T Grav APCs, 4 x 10,000T Battle Riders
9. Fuel Treatment On Board Fuel Purification
10. Cost MCr227,294.577
Qty: MCr 181,835.662.
11. Construction Time TBD months to build, TBD months in quantity. Architects Fee: MCr 2,272.946
12. Remarks Other Equipment:

History & Background (Dossier)

The Tomon Trade Federation had to face the reality that they needed additional hulls to get their most advanced models of advanced battle riders and system defense boats into offensive operations and that defense alone wouldn't ensure their continued survival. The TL–15 advanced, long range jump drives, result in a sacrifice of normal acceleration. At one point these were referred to a Guild High Liners prior to their reclassification.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: No information yet available.

Class Naming Practice/s: No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Referral-Tree-Type-MS-Heavy-Freighter Bulk Cargo Carrier - Transport:

References & Contributors (Sources)

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