SI-049 Company Store class Mining Tender

SI-049 Company Store class Mining Tender
TBD
Type: J Mining Tender
Category	[[ACS]]
Size	4,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[TBD Hull]]
Streamlining	Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–14
Engineering
Computer	Model/TBD
Jump	J-1
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	40
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	86
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	678.2 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Year Operational	Unknown
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr1,315.6, Qty: MCr1,052.48
Statistics
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard.

The SI-049 Company Store class Mining Tender is a mining starship.

• It is a civilian ship and a Mining Tender.

Description (Specifications)

The SI-049 Company Store class Mining Tender was designed on Inar (Deneb 1213) in 1049, the Sternmetal Horizons Company Store class ship serves as home base for 10 Bathysphere class Prospector's Cutters. Being unstreamlined, it also carries two Bubble class Fuel Cutters, which can serve double duty if needed.

The SI-049 is normally used as a mobile mining base within a single system. It only uses its nominal jump ability in emergencies, or to change systems (which doesn't happen very often). The shape of the hull and the placement of the cutters allows this ship to operate as a tender while grounded (on an airless moon, for instance), and Sternmetal has grounded SI-049s semi-permanently in several systems to serve as long term bases. Like most Inari designs, the SI-049 is a tail-sitter, with its cutter complement arranged around it like a huge carousel.

While lightly armed, the SI-049 can serve as an auxiliary Fighter Carrier and mobile system defense base, like the larger Bullfrog class Fighter Tender. The standardization of Inari 60-ton spherical hulls allows the SI-049 to operate Wart class Heavy Fighters (which have the same hull as the Bathysphere). The SI-049 is capable of long tours of duty in any system where wilderness fueling is possible, due to its ability to carry supplies for many months, and at half the cost of the Bullfrog, is popular with poorer systems needing home defense squadrons. The listed cost and weight does not include the twelve subcraft.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Warship - Scout/Courier:

1. Type TBD class Vessel
   1. SI-049 Company Store class Mining Tender

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• Author: James Kundert
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