Excellence class Fast Shuttle

Excellence class Fast Shuttle
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Type: UMS Smallcraft
Category	Smallcraft
Size	90 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[Conical Hull]]
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–8
Engineering
Computer	Model/1
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	3 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	6
Officers	1
Enlisted	5
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	30 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Distant Fringe
Year Operational	No information yet available.
Price
Cost	MCr49.260 (base) MCr39.408 (qty)
Architect fee	MCrAde Stewart
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	U-9A30
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Also see	Shuttle
Canon	Published, fan design
Reference	Ade Alagoric Stewart
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Book 5 High Guard

The Excellence class Fast Shuttle is a smallcraft.

• It is a Civilian Ship and an Auxiliary.
• Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Specifications)

The Shuttle 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.

• The vessel is a TL-7 design.

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1. Excellence class Fast Shuttle.
   

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.

Basic Ship Characteristics
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage	The Fast Shuttle is constructed using a 90 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. Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. The vessel has an airlock. The vessel has a sturdy retractable wheeled undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: 2 x1 Pilot and x1 Steward. If the vessel is carried as a subcraft, these individuals serve as service crew aboard the parent vessel when not required for flight duties. Accommodations There are 8 small staterooms. Passengers enjoy a premier steward service. There are x40 passenger acceleration couches. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. The vessel has full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Sections of the ship can be isolated in the event of an emergency. There are multiple small emergency lockers.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Maneuver-3 drive and a Power Plant-3, giving performance of 3-G acceleration and producing 2.7 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 3. 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 area contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment. The vessel is fitted with a Model/1 Computer: no backup computer is installed. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a basic sensor array, and has an Avionics suite. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint.
6.	Armament	The Fast Shuttle is generally unarmed.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. x1 triple Sandcaster turret, forming its own battery. 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 2.7 dTons. The hull is fitted with intrinsic fuel scoops. These are routed via pumps into the cargo hold, allowing storage tanks or collapsible fuel bladders to be filled. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr49.260. 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 MCr39.408.
11.	Construction Time	36 weeks (9 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	Cargo capacity amounts to 30 dTons.

History / Background

A relatively low-tech design used throughout the Distant Fringe. Its good speed makes it a popular choice as an interface craft and interplanetary courier. 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.

Distant Fringe Vessels

The Distant Fringe is said to be a far spinward-rimward area inhabited by colonists and refugees originating on Terra. The region is extremely isolated, separated from the rest of Charted Space by vast, almost uncrossable rifts that were once broached by a system of calibration Points and the use of tankers. Those few academics within Charted Space who have found references to the Distant Fringe regard it as little more than a tall tale. Likewise, many of the inhabitants of the Distant Fringe believe the existence of Charted Space to be mythical.

Vessels originating within the Distant Fringe are very rarely encountered outside of the region. However, misjumps do occur and anomalies with bizarre spacetime and Jumpspace effects exist: as such, craft of this type are not entirely unknown within Charted Space.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Different examples of the design are known by many different names but all have very similar performance characteristics and capabilities.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Civilian Ship - Smallcraft - Utility Craft:

1. Type UMS class Shuttle
   1. Aanz class System Shuttle
   2. Andrew class Commercial Shuttle
   3. Carrus class Shuttle
   4. Ciigusna class Shuttle
   5. Crawm class Shuttle
   6. Deployment Shuttle
   7. Excellence class Fast Shuttle
   8. Generic Shuttle
   9. Intruder class Shuttle
   10. Olympian class Shuttle
   11. Rosendal class Shuttle
   12. Traissthurdusa class Rocket
   13. Type 423 class Cargo Shuttle
   14. Vanguard class Shuttle

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science