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== Description (Specifications) == | == Description (Specifications) == | ||
− | + | They typically displace 20.0 [[ton]]s, and are capable of 1.0 G acceleration and can carry up to three conscious passengers. | |
− | * In addition, | + | * In addition, they often contain five emergency [[Low Passage|low berth]]s, each capable of holding four persons in [[cold sleep]]. Thus a standard life boat can often carry a total of 23 [[sophont]]s. |
− | * Life boats are unarmed. | + | * Life boats are almost always unarmed. |
== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == | == History & Background ([[Dossier]]) == |
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The Life Boat is an emergency device, a smallcraft, used to allow escape from danger, disaster, or calamity in space-going situations.
Description (Specifications)
They typically displace 20.0 tons, and are capable of 1.0 G acceleration and can carry up to three conscious passengers.
- In addition, they often contain five emergency low berths, each capable of holding four persons in cold sleep. Thus a standard life boat can often carry a total of 23 sophonts.
- Life boats are almost always unarmed.
History & Background (Dossier)
No information yet available.
Selected Life Boat Variant Types & Classes
References & Contributors (Sources)
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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.
- Classic Traveller Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), TBD.
- Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science