Furnish class Tanker

Furnish class Tanker
Type: RG Tanker
Category	BCS
Size	3,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	Cone Hull
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–11
Engineering
Computer	Model/3
Jump	J-2
Maneuver	2 G
Fuel Treatment	Scoops, Purifier
Armaments
Hardpoints	30
Accommodations
Staterooms	25
Personnel
Crew	32
Officers	10
Enlisted	22
Pilots	4
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	4 Tons
Fuel tank	2,260 Tons
Carried craft	2 10t launches
Special features	40t hanger
Construction
Construction Time	34 Months
Origin	Third Imperium
Price
Cost	MCr1,446.965
Architect fee	MCr14.47
Statistics
Universal Ship Profile	RG-C222232-090000-60000-0
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	Yes
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Designer	Ade Stewart
Design System	High Guard
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: Ade Stewart

The Furnish class Tanker is a {{TL|11} Tanker used by military forces and by commercial organizations.

Description

The Furnish class is a tanker vessel. It collects and refines hydrogen fuel and either transports it to a starport or provides it directly to another vessel.

These large and generally grubby ships may be encountered almost anywhere. Their outer skins become stained and darkened by trace chemicals while skimming gas giant atmospheres and they frequently exhibit dents and scrapes resulting from poor maneuvering while vessels are coming alongside to refuel. Commercial tankers may serve an organization, supporting its operational craft and providing them with refined fuel on demand, or may operate as independent gas traders, selling fuel directly from their tanks, particularly in systems with starports that do not provide local refuelling facilities. Military tankers will generally be accompanied by at least one escort vessel.

Image Repository

Furnish class Tanker

Servant class Launch

General Description

The Furnish class is an auxiliary tanker with performance of J-2 and 2-G acceleration. It is a relatively large, relatively slow ship, equipped with strong sandcaster defenses and laser turrets most commonly used in a point defense role. The design is fully streamlined, giving good atmospheric performance, allowing it to skim for fuel, and enabling it to perform surface landings.

The vessel is an unevenly shaped cone with an overall length of 113 meters, a mean diameter of 37 meters, and a volume of approximately 40,500 cubic meters. The ship has many pods, blisters, cowlings, recesses, housings, and protuberances over its surface. Despite this slightly irregular shape it is aerodynamic and may operate within planetary atmospheres.

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.

Basic Ship Characteristics
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage / Hull	The Furnish class Tanker is constructed using a 3,000 dTon hull built in a generally conical configuration. The hull is streamlined and has good atmospheric capability: its atmospheric handling characteristics are improved by its onboard gravitic systems. Individual sections of the ship are divided by bulkhead walls. The cargo hold is accessed by doors. There are x3 personnel airlocks. The cargo hold can be used as an additional airlock. The vessel has sturdy retractable legs, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	x32 personnel (x40 in military service). x7 command, x5 engineering, x7 gunnery, x4 flight, and x9 service. The command crew consists of the Captain, the Executive Officer, an electronics officer (commo and sensor ops), two pilot/navigators, a fuel control officer, and a medical officer. Each crew section has a senior officer. x8 marines serve aboard military vessels. Service crew requirements are not reduced by the presence of the marines. Accommodations There are x25 Staterooms. x21 Staterooms are given over to crew quarters. x10 rooms are single occupancy and are used by the captain and senior personnel: x11 other rooms are double occupancy. x4 Staterooms are available to paying middle passengers: no steward service is available. x8 Marines use these as double occupancy accommodations on vessels in military service: military vessels have no passenger capacity. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Individual sections of the hull can be sealed off. There are multiple emergency lockers.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Jump-2 drive, a Maneuver-2 drive, and a fusion Power Plant-2, giving performance of Jump-2 and 2-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 0 and an emergency agility of 2. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for one Jump-2 and gives the power plant 4 weeks duration. The engineering section has a main control room. Ladders, gantries and platforms give access to the machinery. The jump drive utilizes a hull grid. The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.
4.	Electronics	Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/3 computer. A backup Model/3 is installed in engineering. There are multiple workstations and control points throughout the vessel. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a standard sensor array, and has an avionics suite. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x30 hardpoints. The listed weapons systems are typical for the class.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for a Furnish class is: x10 triple Beam Laser turrets, forming two batteries of 5 linked turrets.
7.	Defenses	The hull has no additional armor. x20 triple Sandcaster turrets, forming two batteries of 10 linked turrets. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft	Flight Section: x2 10-dTon Servant class Launches. The subcraft are housed in a dedicated hangar: the hangar can be sealed and has a total volume of 40 dTons. 14 dTons of hangar space is unused, giving berthing space for up to 10 dTons of vessels.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 660 dTons. The hull is fitted with fuel scoops. The vessel is equipped with a fuel purification plant, capable of refining all onboard fuel (including commercial fuel tanks) in a few hours. The vessel has commercial / refuelling tankage of 1600 dTons. Fuel transfer is done via boom arms that extend from the hull. Vessels attach to these and draw fuel from the tanker's refuelling tanks. Up to four vessels can be refuelled simultaneously.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr1,446.965 Architects Fee: MCr14.470 If multiple examples of the design are ordered all vessels in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price per unit to MCr1,157.572 The price does not include the cost of the subcraft: x2 Servant class Launches cost MCr12.32 (discounts for a bulk order immediately apply, reducing the cost to MCr9.856). With its subcraft, a discounted Furnish class costs MCr1,167.428
11.	Construction Time	135 weeks as standard, 108 weeks in bulk. 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	Standard cargo capacity amounts to 4 dTons. The hold has independent life support and environmental systems. The hold can be sealed and isolated.

History & Background (Dossier)

The design is representative and large numbers of variants exist, particularly with regard to the installed weapons systems, the allotted onboard electronics, and the fit out of accommodations and internal spaces.

Furnish class Tankers often pair with an Assistance class Tender. These two vessels, working together, can temporarily provide some equivalence to Class A starport facilities on a frontier world.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities:
The design is capable of independent operations (it can provide its own fuel) and can transport incidental supplies in its hold. The Furnish class develops a characteristic judder during fuel skimming operations, when the main tanks reach 50% capacity and auxiliary pumping gear begins transferring fuel to secondary tanks. The refining plant and fuel pumping equipment are noisy. Engineering personnel wear ear protection and rely on personal communicators when working around them.

The boom arms that extend from the tankers hull and transfer fuel to adjacent ships are easily damaged. The vessel carries multiple spares and extra components. Boom arm repair is one of the most unpopular jobs on the ship.

The class was originally designed to have three launches and adequate hangar space was provided for them. These subcraft were intended to transport personnel while the parent vessel remained in orbit providing refuelling services, and to act as lifeboats in an emergency. The class was only ever issued with two launches as standard (likely as a result of corporate cutbacks and penny-pinching) resulting in inadequate escape facilities for the crew in the event of their needing to evacuate the vessel. Individual owners and captains may upgrade by purchasing an additional subcraft if desired, though more often the vacant hangar space is used as extra cargo storage.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

34 Representative Tanker (RG) Classes

§ == ( Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information: ) == §

Type RG Tanker

B

• Baleen class Heavy Tanker
• Bubble class Fuel Cutter

C

• Compassionate class Tanker

D

• Dromedary class Tanker/Replenishment Ship
• Duke class Jump Tanker

F

• Florence class Tanker
• Freshwater class Tanker
• Fuelbag class Fuel Depot Drone
• Furnish class Tanker

G

• Giant class Tanker

H

• Hong Cha class Tanker
• Hydrogen class Fleet Fuel Tanker

I

• Iadiadlsiz class Fleet Tanker
• Integrity class Tanker
• Ish'ka class Tanker

J

• Jolly Green Giant class Tanker

K

• KA25c Growler class Tanker
• Kandor class Tanker
• Kandor class Tanker
• Kleinnächster class Medium Tanker

L

• Last Armada class Frontier Tanker
• Last Armada class Fuel Shuttle
• Louis & Clark class Fuel Pinnace

M

• Monstrosity class Fleet Tanker

N

• Nimrod class Fuel Lighter

O

• Orowani Deep Space class Heavy Tanker

P

• Parthenopinnace Fuel Shuttle
• Provision class Medium Tanker

R

• Regent class Station Tanker
• River class Heavy Tanker

S

• S-92/3 class Fleet Tanker
• Sternplatz class Refueling Pinnace

T

• Type 058A Fedko class Tanker

V

• Valdez class Fleet Tanker

References

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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules: Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 12-23. Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-36.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Author: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author: Deekay Krause