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| − | The '''''Nimbus III''''' was a [[DropShip]] notable for having been involved in the first successful test of a [[Docking Collar]] | + | The '''''Nimbus III''''' was a [[DropShip]] notable for having been involved in the first successful test of a [[Docking Collar]] in [[2458]]. |
| − | The ''Olympus'' was the culmination of a collaborative technology programme involving [[Blue Nose Interstellar Technologies]], the Department of Theoretical Physics at Mars University and half a dozen aerospace manufacturing companies, and she revolutionised interstellar travel.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15"/> | + | Owned and operated by [[Deimos Clipperships]] of Mars, the DCS ''Nimbus III'' was a ''[[Clippership IV]]'' DropShuttle modified with a prototype [[docking collar]]. It was successfully mated externally with the first modern [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Liberty (JumpShip)|Liberty]]''-class [[Olympus (Liberty)|BNS ''Olympus'']], which then executed a successful jump, proving the first dropship collars and K-F Booms.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15">''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 15, "Liberty JumpShip"</ref> The ''Olympus''/''Nimbus III'' was the culmination of a collaborative technology programme involving [[Blue Nose Interstellar Technologies]], the Department of Theoretical Physics at Mars University and half a dozen aerospace manufacturing companies, and she revolutionised interstellar travel.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15"/> |
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| + | Within a decade of the successful jump, Deimos Clipperships produced the ''Clippership V'' class which was essentially a model IV with a docking collar;<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 14, "Czar DropShip"</ref> the ''Nimbus III'' could thus arguably be described as the first, prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'' type vessel. | ||
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Revision as of 10:28, 14 September 2014
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| Class | Modified Clippership IV (arguably prototype Clippership V) |
History
The Nimbus III was a DropShip notable for having been involved in the first successful test of a Docking Collar in 2458.
Owned and operated by Deimos Clipperships of Mars, the DCS Nimbus III was a Clippership IV DropShuttle modified with a prototype docking collar. It was successfully mated externally with the first modern JumpShip, the Liberty-class BNS Olympus, which then executed a successful jump, proving the first dropship collars and K-F Booms.[1] The Olympus/Nimbus III was the culmination of a collaborative technology programme involving Blue Nose Interstellar Technologies, the Department of Theoretical Physics at Mars University and half a dozen aerospace manufacturing companies, and she revolutionised interstellar travel.[1]
Within a decade of the successful jump, Deimos Clipperships produced the Clippership V class which was essentially a model IV with a docking collar;[2] the Nimbus III could thus arguably be described as the first, prototype Clippership V type vessel.