Deliverance class Lifeboat
Deliverance class Lifeboat | |
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Distant Fringe vessel | |
Type: MM Lifeboat | |
Category | Smallcraft |
Size | 50 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Cone Hull |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–9 |
Engineering | |
Computer | None |
Jump | J-0 |
Maneuver | 2 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 1 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | |
Seats | 85 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 1 |
High/Mid Passengers | 85 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 0 Tons |
Fuel tank | 1 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Distant Fringe |
Price | |
Cost | MCr20.9 |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | MM-5A20 |
Universal Ship Profile | MM–0202210–000000–00000–0 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
Designer | Ade Stewart |
Design System | High Guard |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Stewart |
The Deliverance class Lifeboat is a TL–9 noncombatant smallcraft use for passenger services.
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
Description
The Lifeboat is designed to transport passengers in a variety of circumstances. It uses the same basic hull as the Launch. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.
Image Repository
- A side view schematic of a Deliverance class Lifeboat.
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] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage | The Lifeboat 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 that is further enhanced by its onboard gravitic systems.
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2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: 1
Accommodations The main compartment has x85 acceleration couches. The vessel is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. It has full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance | The vessel mounts a Maneuver-2 drive and a 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 tankage is sufficient to give the power plant approximately 4 weeks duration.
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4. | Electronics | The cockpit contains x1 acceleration couch and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 Computer: no backup computer is installed.
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5. | Hardpoints | x1 hardpoint. |
6. | Armament | The Lifeboat is unarmed. |
7. | Defenses | The hull is unarmored.
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8. | Craft | The vessel carries no subcraft. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1 dTon.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr20.900.
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11. | Construction Time | 24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard.
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12. | Comments | The vessel has no internal cargo capacity. |
History & Background (Dossier)
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
10 Representative Life boat (MM) Classes
References
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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules:
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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.