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	Spacegoing ships that used these bays were [[Primitive Technology|Primitive]] [[JumpShips]] and early [[WarShips]], such as early ''[[League (WarShip class)|League]]''-class Large Destroyers and ''[[Defender (WarShip class)|Defender]]''-class Battlecruisers.<ref>''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 25: Defender-class Battlecruiser - Defender class's Stats shows DropShuttle Bays in use</ref><ref>''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 23: "League (Destroyer)" - Block I class Destroyers were equipped with DropShuttle Bays</ref>		Spacegoing ships that used these bays were [[Primitive Technology|Primitive]] [[JumpShips]] and early [[WarShips]], such as early ''[[League (WarShip class)|League]]''-class Large Destroyers and ''[[Defender (WarShip class)|Defender]]''-class Battlecruisers.<ref>''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 25: Defender-class Battlecruiser - Defender class's Stats shows DropShuttle Bays in use</ref><ref>''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 23: "League (Destroyer)" - Block I class Destroyers were equipped with DropShuttle Bays</ref>
−	By the [[twenty-fifth century]], Drop Collar and the [[K-F Boom]] would be invented, allowing for larger DropShuttles known as DropShips to dock externally to a JumpShip up to 100,000 tons. Thus due to economics, the bays would be dropped in favor of the more effective Drop Collar System with the K-F Boom.	+	By the [[25th Century|Twenty Fifth Century]], Drop Collar and the [[K-F Boom]] would be invented, allowing for larger DropShuttles known as DropShips to dock externally to a JumpShip up to 100,000 tons. Thus due to economics, the bays would be dropped in favor of the more effective Drop Collar System with the K-F Boom.
−	DropShuttles Bays would become extinct by [[2500]],<ref name="IO:p119"/> while some examples of them persisted till early [[twenty-eighth century]] on ancient WarShips, such as ''Defender'' and the ''Cruiser''.<ref>''Field Report 2765: DCMS'', pp. 19–20: "Cruiser (Cruiser) - Cruiser were equipped with DropShuttle Bays and would remain in service until First Succession War"</ref><ref>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 62: "FSS Golden Lion (Defender-class WarShip) is destroyed during First Succession War."</ref>	+	DropShuttles Bays would become extinct by [[2500]],<ref name="IO:p119"/> while some examples of them persisted till early [[28th Century|Twenty-Eighth Century]] on ancient WarShips, such as ''Defender'' and the ''Cruiser''.<ref>''Field Report 2765: DCMS'', pp. 19–20: "Cruiser (Cruiser) - Cruiser were equipped with DropShuttle Bays and would remain in service until First Succession War"</ref><ref>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 62: "FSS Golden Lion (Defender-class WarShip) is destroyed during First Succession War."</ref>
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[[File:DropShuttle Bay (on a Cruiser).jpg|400px|thumb|''[[Cruiser]]''-class WarShip with a forward-mounted DropShuttle Bay.]] == Description == '''DropShuttle Bays''' were an early space-based docking apparatus used to allow large shuttles known as "[[DropShuttle|DropShuttles]]" dock with [[JumpShips]] internally. ==History== Invented approximately in [[2110]] by the [[Terran Alliance]], the DropShuttle Bay was internal docking bay used for DropShuttles (forerunner of the [[DropShips]]) to JumpShips. When they were invented, the JumpShips had no way to convey large quantities of cargoes for colonists to a planet's surface. The DropShuttles were invented as well as the Bay to solve this problem. Bays were limited the size of the DropShuttle to 5,000 tons, only pair of them may be docked per bay. Another detractor in using these bays was that they were very time consuming to use.<ref name="IO:p119">''Interstellar Operations'', p. 119: Primitive Prototype Equipment (Age of War) "DropShuttle Bay"</ref> Spacegoing ships that used these bays were [[Primitive Technology|Primitive]] [[JumpShips]] and early [[WarShips]], such as early ''[[League (WarShip class)|League]]''-class Large Destroyers and ''[[Defender (WarShip class)|Defender]]''-class Battlecruisers.<ref>''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 25: Defender-class Battlecruiser - Defender class's Stats shows DropShuttle Bays in use</ref><ref>''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 23: "League (Destroyer)" - Block I class Destroyers were equipped with DropShuttle Bays</ref> By the [[25th Century|Twenty Fifth Century]], Drop Collar and the [[K-F Boom]] would be invented, allowing for larger DropShuttles known as DropShips to dock externally to a JumpShip up to 100,000 tons. Thus due to economics, the bays would be dropped in favor of the more effective Drop Collar System with the K-F Boom. DropShuttles Bays would become extinct by [[2500]],<ref name="IO:p119"/> while some examples of them persisted till early [[28th Century|Twenty-Eighth Century]] on ancient WarShips, such as ''Defender'' and the ''Cruiser''.<ref>''Field Report 2765: DCMS'', pp. 19–20: "Cruiser (Cruiser) - Cruiser were equipped with DropShuttle Bays and would remain in service until First Succession War"</ref><ref>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 62: "FSS Golden Lion (Defender-class WarShip) is destroyed during First Succession War."</ref> == References == <references/> == Bibliography == * ''[[Interstellar Operations]]'' [[Category: Technology|DropShuttle Bay]]

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