Omicron class Heavy Lander
Omicron class Heavy Lander | |
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Type: WB Heavy Lander | |
Category | ACS |
Size | 400 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Cone Hull |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–9 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/1 |
Jump | J-0 |
Maneuver | 2 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 4 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 0 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 6 |
Officers | 2 |
Enlisted | 4 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 300 Tons |
Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Distant Fringe |
Year Operational | Unknown |
End of Service | Still in active service. |
Price | |
Cost | MCr142.420 (base) MCr113.936 (qty) |
Architect fee | MCrAde Stewart |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | WBT-4S20 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Also see | Spaceplane |
Canon | Published, fan design |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fan: Ade Alagoric Stewart |
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Book 5 High Guard |
The Omicron class Heavy Lander is a transport spaceplane bigcraft.
- It is a Civilian Ship and a Utility Auxiliary.
- This is a generic class of civilian vessel.
- Please also see AAB article: Ships of the Distant Fringe.
Description (Specifications)
The Interface Lander is designed to ferry cargo and fuel between a world’s surface and close orbit. It is a common in-system transport vessel within the Distant Fringe and is frequently carried as a subcraft aboard large commercial vessels. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.
- The vessel is a TL-9 design.
Image Repository
- An Omicron class Heavy Lander in side view.
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]
No. | Category | Remarks |
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1. | Tonnage | The Interface Lander is constructed using a 400 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: x6
Accommodations
There are 10 Low Berths. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have 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 8 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 2. The internal fuel tankage gives the power plant 4 weeks duration.
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4. | Electronics | Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/1 Computer: no backup computer is installed.
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5. | Hardpoints | x4 hardpoints. |
6. | Armament | The Interface Lander is generally 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 8 dTons.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr142.420.
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11. | Construction Time | 64 weeks (16 months) as standard.
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12. | Comments | Standard cargo capacity amounts to 300 dTons.
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History & Background (Dossier)
The Omicron class is an interface craft primarily designed to shuttle fuel, cargo and sundries between a worlds surface and close orbit. It is frequently used as an in-system transport, carrying equipment and supplies to secondary worlds within a system. 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.[3]
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.[4]
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
Auxiliary - Interface Craft - Spaceplane
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- 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
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak