Starlifter Heavy Cargo Shuttle

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Maurer
12/24/14 05:43 PM
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                    AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout
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Class/Model/Name: Starlifter Heavy Cargo Shuttle
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3067
Vessel Type: Spheroid Small Craft
Rules: Level 1, Standard design
Rules Set: AeroTech2

Mass: 200 tons
Power Plant: Standard
Safe Thrust: 1
Maximum Thrust: 2
Armor Type: Standard
Armament: None
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==Overview:==
"What is short, squat, and can bearly get off the ground under its own power
...unloaded - A Starlifter!" A common joke heard in aerospace port bars around
the Inner Sphere, nothing else can quite describe the Starlifter Heavy Cargo
Shuttle. a thin skinned cargo-container encased in another thin layer of
metal. Bolted on one end is spartan quarters with minimally functial life
support and thrusters barely powerful enough to be rated more then pyrotechnic
on the other.



==Capabilities:==
The Starlifter Heavy Cargo Shuttle was designed in the early era of space
flight as a means to get het heavy loads into orbit at an economical cost. No
other small space craft is capable of matching its capablility of lifting
125.5 tons into orbit, only a drop ship is capable of lifting more. The trade
off for this enourmous cargo capacity is severly limited fuel capacity, just
enough to lift the ship to into orbit or a short range shuttle hop.The
secondary cargo bay can be converted to carry an additional 25 tons of fuel,
doubling its flight range. Dispite this limitation, the ship is equipped with
a month's worth of supplies for the crew. A single escape pod is available
for the crew to reach its intended destination should the Starlifter run out
of fuel.

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Class/Model/Name: Starlifter Heavy Cargo Shuttle
Mass: 200 tons

Equipment: Mass
Power Plant, Drive & Control: 13.00
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 1
Maximum Thrust: 2
Structural Integrity: 2 1.00
Total Heat Sinks: 4 Single .00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 25.50
Bridge, Controls, Radar, Computer & Attitude Thrusters: 1.50
Fire Control Computers: .00
Food & Water: (33 days supply) .50
Armor Type: Standard (88 total armor pts) 5.00
Standard Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Fore: 25
Left/Right Sides: 22/22
Aft: 19

Cargo:
Bay 1: Cargo (2) with 2 doors 100.00
Bay 2: Cargo (1) with 1 door 25.50

Escape Pods: 1 (7 tons each) 7.00

Crew and Passengers:
3 Crew (3 minimum) 21.00
Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass
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TOTALS: Heat: 0 200.00
Tons Left: .00

Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 4,050,500 C-Bills
Battle Value: 204
Cost per BV: 19,855.39
Weapon Value: 0 (Ratio = .00)
Damage Factors: SRV = 0; MRV = 0; LRV = 0; ERV = 0
Maintenance: Maintenance Point Value (MPV) = 441
(121 Structure, 280 Life Support, 40 Weapons)
Support Points (SP) = 1,689 (383% of MPV)
BattleForce2: MP: 1, Armor/Structure: 2 / 0
Damage PB/M/L: -/-/-, Overheat: 0
Class: DS; Point Value: 2
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His_Most_Royal_Highass_Donkey
12/25/14 04:48 AM
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That is not a legal design to obtain orbit, you require a safe thrust of at least a 2 to leave a 1G gravity well.

This design could be used for launching and landing on a micro gravity planet or moon.
Why argue if the glass is half full or half empty, when you know someone is going to knock it over and spill it anyways.

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ghostrider
12/25/14 09:37 AM
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Glad someone besides me pointed that out.

Another use for this is transporting items to stations in space, such as from a Behemoth dropship to a space factory. Safer then trying to dock directly to the station.

Granted once you get it to your destination, it can be used to move cargo on the planet without going orbital, but honestly, an aerodyne would be more suited for that then a spheroid.
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