Apollo class Runabout
Apollo class Runabout | |
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Distant Fringe Vessel | |
Type: A Trader | |
Category | Smallcraft |
Size | 50 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Cone Hull |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–7 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/1 |
Jump | J-0 |
Maneuver | 2 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 0 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 4 |
Seats | 8 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 1 |
High/Mid Passengers | 12 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 28 Tons |
Fuel tank | 1 Tons |
Construction | |
Construction Time | 5.5 Months |
Origin | Distant Fringe |
Price | |
Cost | MCr22.200 |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | A-5A20 |
Universal Ship Profile | A–0202210–020000–00000-0 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
Designer | Ade Stewart |
Design System | High Guard |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Stewart |
The Apollo class Runabout is a TL–7 utilitarian smallcraft.
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
Description
The Runabout is a low-tech vessel designed to ferry cargo and passengers between locations. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.
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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 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] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage / Hull | The Runabout 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.
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2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: 1
Accommodations There are 4 small staterooms. One typically serves as an office, galley or medical bay as necessary and contains a small fresher, while the remaining three are available to paying passengers. There are x8 passenger acceleration couches. The ship does not have grav plates or inertial compensators: all accessible areas of the ship are set up for zero-gee activity. The vessel has full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance | The vessel mounts an extremely efficient rocket thrust-based Maneuver-2 drive and a Fission Power Plant-2, giving performance of 2-G acceleration and producing 1 Energy Point. The ship has an agility rating of 2. The internal fuel supply provides reaction mass for the Maneuver drive and is considered sufficient to support approximately 3 weeks of operations. Activity in significant gravity wells and atmospheres exponentially reduces the vessel's maneuver endurance.
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4. | Electronics | The cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 flt ship computer: no backup computer is installed.
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5. | Hardpoints | x1 hardpoint. |
6. | Armament | The Runabout is generally unarmed. |
7. | Defenses | The hull is unarmored.
x1 triple Sandcaster turret, forming its own battery.
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8. | Craft | The vessel carries no subcraft. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has an internal fuel tank containing 1 dTon of reaction mass for the Drives.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr22.200.
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11. | Construction Time | 24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard.
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12. | Comments | Cargo capacity amounts to 28 dTons. |
History & Background
The Runabout is a low-tech design used for a variety of roles. 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.
Selected Variant Types & Classes
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References
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- Author: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.