Designed using Empress-Marava specifications, but using optimisation ideas from pyramid and elsewhere. Optimisations include:
This ship costs 9 MCr less than the official GT Empress Marava, yet has 10% more cargo space and very similar performance.
Crew: 4 Total. 2 Command and Control, 1 Turret Gunners, 1 Maintenance.
Hull: 200-ton VGSL, Medium Frame, Very Cheap Materials, Crystaliron (Expensive) Armored Hull (DR 100), Standard Compartmentalization.
Control Areas: Commercial Bridge (37/41/31, 5k/10k/0, Complexity 5).
Engineering: Engineering, 6 Jump Drive, 12 Unpowered Maneuver Drive (0.99 / 2.03 Gs, 600 stons thrust), 40 Hv Cryonic Internal Tank (Fire -1, Loaded with 40 stons), Sm Fuel Processor (10 hours to refine ), Sm Utility, 25.3 Man-Hours/day Maintenance.
Accommodations: 10 Stateroom, 3 Low Berth (12 Cryoberths).
Armaments: 1 Turret Battery of 1 (3 dtons available; DR100), 1 Turret Battery of 1 (3 dtons available; DR100).
Stores: 54 Hold, Spacedock (0.5 dtons for small craft available).
Statistics: EMass 296.09 stons, LMass 606.09 stons, Cost MCr27.68, HP 22,500, Damage Threshold 2,250, Size Mod 8, HT 12, CP 44.
Performance: Jump-2, sAcc 0.99 / 2.03 Gs, Stall Speed 6 mph, Airspeed 1,733 mph, Skimming Airspeed 4,899 mph, Aerostatic Lift 600 stons, Groundspeed 441 mph, Takeoff Run 0 mi, Landing Run 0 mi.
Sample Times : Orbit 0.23 Hrs, Escape Velocity 0.32 Hrs, 100D 6.42 Hrs, Earth-Mars 110.18 Hrs.
Options
All times are Earth Std, Full Load.
100D and Earth-Mars assume mid-point turnover.