"S"-class liner
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S-class liner

The Solway-class liners were designed to carry a mixture of passengers and freight on thin routes in the outer sectors. Built at a minimum efficient scale, and protected chiefly by a polythene Whipple shield inflated with methane for extra radiation protection, Solway-class workhorses provide inexpensive travel in fair comfort on thousands of routes between second-rank economies or connected third-rank economies to local hubs. S-class liners are named for ocean liners with names beginning in "S", or with women's names starting with "S".

The S-class liner is built on a 10,000-tonne airframe, with an unstreamlined inflatable "hull' 120 metres in diameter. Since liners spend weeks in free-fall full of untrained passengers, with comparatively short burst of acceleration at the beginning and end of the trip, S class liners have a forward "wheel" section that spins for simulated gravity of 0.2 g. Behind the wheel is a 500-tonne breakbulk hold, and scantlings to support 1,500 tonnes of containerised cargo. Behind that are fuels tanks and drives.

S-class liners have an economical fusion torch engine developing 0.5 gee when fully laden. They have tankage for 1,500 tonnes of hydrogen, which will power the torch for 4 hours (72 kms-1 delta-v), or the Eichberger drives for 21 days (58 light-years), or any combination. S-class liners are strictly incapable of landing on a planet, and do not carry shuttles. Their Eichberger drives will do 2.75 light-years per day.

Systems

  • Forward hull
    1. Habitat (30 luxury suites), 2.0 MCr, 1
    2. Habitat (60 cabins), 2.0 MCr, 1
    3. Habitat (60 cabins), 2.0 MCr, 1
    4. Habitat (240 bunks), 2.0 MCr, 1
    5. Habitat (30 establishments), 2.0 MCr, 1
    6. Habitat (1 suite, 10 cabins, 120 bunks, 3 establishments, 2 sickbays with automeds, 4-bunk brig, 9 steerage cargo) 2.2 MCr, 1
  • Core
    • Habitat (240 hibersleep compartments), 2.0 MCr, 1
  • Midships hull
    1. Cargo hold (500 tonnes break-bulk), —, —
    2. Cargo hold (500 tonnes containerised), —, —
    3. Cargo hold (500 tonnes containerised), —, —
    4. Cargo hold (500 tonnes containerised), —, —
    5. Cargo hold (500 tonnes containerised), —, —
    6. Cargo hold (500 tonnes containerised), —, —
  • Core
    • Control room (C7, comm 9, control stations 10), 4 MCr, 1
  • Aft hull
    1. ! Stardrive engine (Eichberger drive), 20 MCr, 1
    2. Power plant (de-rated fusion reactor, 1 power point), 10 MCr, 1
    3. Stardrive fuel tank (500 tonnes hydrogen), 0.6 MCr, —
    4. Stardrive fuel tank (500 tonnes hydrogen), 0.6 MCr, —
    5. Propellant tank (500 tonnes hydrogen), 0.6 MCr, —
    6. Reaction engine (fusion torch, 0.5 g, 20 MCr, 1

Basic Stat block

PILOTING/TL10 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)
TL: 10^
Spacecraft: S-class liner
dST/HP: 150
Hnd/SR: -2/5
HT: 13
Move: 0.5 g / 24 kms-1
SM: +10
LWt.: 10,000 tonnes
dDR: 0
Occ.: 685 ASV1
Load: 3,632 tonnes
Cost: 70 MCr
Refuel: 600 kSVU

  • Control room crew: 10
  • Engine room crew: 11

Fit-out


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