Trader class Provincial Transport
Trader class Provincial Transport | |
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Type: AK Subsidized Merchant | |
Category | ACS |
Size | 1,000 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Flattened Sphere Hull |
Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–15 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/3 |
Jump | J-2 |
Maneuver | 1 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 10 |
Offensive | 2 double laser turrets, 2 triple sandcaster turrets |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 57 |
Low Berths | 50 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 17 |
Officers | 6 |
Enlisted | 11 |
High/Mid Passengers | 40 |
Low Passengers | 50 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 332 Tons |
Fuel tank | 220 Tons |
Carried craft | 4 20t lifeboats |
Construction | |
Construction Time | 30 Months |
Origin | Third Imperium |
Price | |
Cost | MCr414.0 |
Architect fee | MCr4.14 |
Statistics | |
Universal Ship Profile | AK-A621232-0400000-30000-0 |
Images | |
Blueprint | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Canon | Published, non-canon design |
Designer | Ross Babcock, Jordan Weisman |
Design System | High Guard |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Adventure Class Ships Volume 3 6-8. |
The Trader class Provincial Transport is a TL–15 Provincial Transport.
Description[edit]
Ships of the Trader-class are often found in a variety of settings. These ships are an excellent compromise between passenger and cargo transport capabilities. Thus they are able to earn a good income no matter what the local trade situation may be like.
The entire upper deck is occupied by the ship's bridge. Consoles here include helm and navigation (the only position normally manned), an engineer monitor, a weapons status repeater, and a communications console (crewed only when needed). Three of the ship's triple sandcasters turrets are also placed on this deck.
The second deck holds twenty large staterooms, used by high passage travellers. A large lounge area with panoramic view windows dominates one end of the deck. Three triple sandcaster turrets and two of the ship's lifeboars are also located here.
The largest of the ship's deck is the central four-lobed main deck. The port and starboard lobes of the deck contain large cargo bays, each holding 60 tons of cargo. Between these two bay are accommodations for twenty middle class passengers and the ship's seventeen crewmen. It is customary for the captain to make use of two of these cabins, one as sleeping quarters, the other as a dayroom or office. At the very center of the deck a library, a bar and lounge, and the ship's galley flank the central elevator shaft.
The forward lobe holds the ship's dining facilities. The after lobe is the location of engineering spaces, the crew common area, and a small theater for passenger entertainment. The theater is fitted out to show holographic movies, live shows, and other group amusements. Four double laser turrets are also located on the deck.
The next lower deck, the cargo deck hols 212 tons of cargo, plus the sick bay and low berths. The lowest deck of the ship holds Fuel.
History & Background[edit]
Though popular among government lines, use of the Trader-class transports is by no means limited to them alone. The ship is a dependable, versatile type of merchant vessel, and is used by both larger lines (though usually in backwater areas) and by smaller companies that are little more than glorified Free Trader operations.
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]
Names for the Trader-class of provincial merchants are widely varied. One common system is to name ships of class for various famous merchants of fact and fancy.
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
42 Representative Subsidized Line (AK) Classes[edit]
A
- Akkigish class Subsidized Merchant
- Amkarim class Trade Liner
- Andrew class Commercial Shuttle
- Anhk class Merchant
B
C
D
F
G
J
- Jasper class Provincial Merchant
- Jelmirt Marquis class High Liner
- Jose Cadiz Royal Galleon class Cargo Carrier
K
L
M
- Maru class Merchant
- Mauripo class Subsidized Merchant
- Mavuzo class Super Freighter
- Mora class Freighter
P
Q
R
S
- Seeker class Armored Merchant
- Sirocco class Merchant Freighter
- Star*mart class Provincial Merchant
- Swordfish class Merchant
T
- Trader class Provincial Transport
- Type CT class Cargo Carrier
- Type R2 class Subsidized Merchant
- Type RL class Subsidized Merchant
- Type RL2 class Subsidized Merchant
- Tyrfing class Freighter
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References[edit]
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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules:
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- J. Andrew Keith. Adventure Class Ships Volume 3 (FASA, 1981), 6-8.