Moondrifter trader Class: Medium sublight merchant vessal Engine: 1 Antimatter engine 100MN max thrust enhanced with insystem vimmiea coils. Reactor: RX-1B Antimatter engine piggyback reactor 1Gw total output with 50 % thrust reduction at max output. Crew: 50. 5 command, 5 Navigators, 30 engineers/mechanics, 10 sucurity,tactical/other. Weapons: 1 200 Mw laser (combat/cutter/welder modes), 2 Li+ seeking missiles with 50 KT nuclear warhead (standard missile complement others possible) defenences: Emp device, EM/gravition shield max output 400Mw Cargo: max 10 Million Kg Dry storage(not sure of what volume would be) -- shadow151 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ship ID: StarStrider Design goal: Independent Deep Space Exploration Carrier Reactors: Dilithium crystal matrix, matter-antimatter accelerator and anniliation-reactor, can also work well with Thorium crystals. Also includes an interstellar and stellar-medium Space Drive reactor, and four cold-fusion reactors. Crew number: 50-60+ Engine capability: 8 VIMANA-drives, 2 anti-grav space-drives, 4 in-system anti-grav recon engines. Fastest recorded speed: From 0 to 15.2 persec on 1.2 secounds. Maximum fuel capablity: 735 kg Li+, 400 kg IS (Interstellar Medium), 600 kg SM (solar-medium). Defence, protection and hull: 25 Standard protective plasma-pulse laser-cannon, 20 flak-guns, 12 all-pourpose torpedo banks, two VIMANA-shields, five EM anti-rad shields, one main deflector shield, hull built of A-5 (aluminium 5) compound, bio-dome consisting of invisible A-5 and/or quarts compound. Cargo capability: 2 storage-pods, cabable of about collected 4800 KG+ compressed storage. Other: 5 all-pourpose hangars, hosting 20 protective fighter-wings, and 15 Pegasus Deep Space transport shuttles. The StarStrider is one the first-used, most popular, most impressive, and by far best ship ever built by the Felisian InterStellar Empire before they disapered under the Great War. The StarStrider was mostly used by the Deep Space Explorers, to explore the five huge galactic clusters which sorrounds the main Feltyrion disk at a distance of several thousand parsec. The first StarStrider; designated the name Falconon (The Felisian world for "hope"), was the first VIMANA-capable interstellar starship ever built by the Felisians. It was the first ship where the ancient VIMANA-drives where reversed-engineered fom the ancient starships, using the scientific research of Parsis. The Falconon succsessfully completed the first test-run to the Lyonesse-system, marking the start of a new age; a age of exploration and couriosity; an age of science and peace; by far the golden age of the Felisian species. During the Golden Ages, the SS saw almost 100 updates and versions, being equpied with additional defensive shielding and VIMANA-drives, and getting new complements of fighter-wings and Pegasus all-pourpose Deep Space Transport Shuttles. Ranging several kilometers from bow to stern, the StarStrider was an impressive and awe-inspiering sight to behold. Completely independent from the rest of the Felisian species, every SS was literally a miniature world. The ships saw a thousand epocs in service, before they was switched to the less resource and crew demanding, but yet much slower and much less effective StarDrifter in Epoc 6004, to let the Lost Generation spread further and cover more area, in order to find the legendary lost subspace portal to Gardoor and NeoFelysia, where the legend tells that the rest of the Felisian species still exists. The StarStrider is now only used by just a few from the Lost Generation; those that still explore the five star-clusters. The probability of seeing a StarStrider in the Feltyrion galaxy is very small, and it is very improbable that any StarDrifter will ever see one. Stargazer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ship ID: Pegasus Deep Space Transport Shuttle Design goal: Planetary, asteroid, or hostile system recon. Also works as a lifeboat. Crew: Capable of supporting up to 5 crewmembers Engines: 4 inter-planetary Ion-pulse drives Reactor: Nuclear and fusion Stellar and Interstellar-medium reactor, can also use Uranium and Thorium crystals. Cargo capability: 12 kg of bio - and/or mineral samples. Defence: Hull composed of Aluminium 5, surrounded by two shields: being a heat-shield, and a level 2 EM anti-rad protection. It also has a level 3 (weak) all-pourpose asteroid-mining plasma-pulse laser cannon. The Pegasus dates back several thousand Epocs, all back to the time when the Felisians had to abandon their homeworld after the destruction of their moon. Tough the Pegasus has recived numerous advancements and updates over the Epocs, the design remain relatively the same. The Pegasus is created for in-system recognisence, or as an life-boat in case of emergencies. Being very small and fast, the Pegasus is usually deployed where there's too risky for StarDrifters or StarStriders to go, as a dense asteroid-field, or an planetary disk surrounding a S09-type star. The Pegasus can also be used for surface-exploration, where its the ideal craft for doing so, as it can land and take off vertically almost anywhere, and travels at suitable speeds. Tough most StarDrifters use a standard landing capsule instead of the Pegasus, the shuttle is still very popular for its fast and effective design and many great features. Stargazer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ship ID: "The LoveBunny". Design Goal: Commercial use. Crew: 2 passengers. Method of Navigation: Cas-voice auto-pilot. Engines: 1 Vimana drive (for erotic exotic locations...), 2 inter-planetary Ion Wrap drives. Shielding: Nanoshell (in case of debris collision). Cargo Capability: 1.2 tons of furniture (highly stylized, red satin). Hull Composition: Polarized quartz. The LoveBunny is an intergalactic 'cruise' for amorous couples who want a bit of a new experience. The designed was influenced by the highly space-worthy StarDrifter designs of the time. Walls can be depolarized for a very unique experience you're unlikely to get anywhere else, unless perhaps you take a friend aboard your StarDrifter, and even then it wouldn't be as cozy. The design was a success, but simultaneously a commercial failure. No safeguard was installed, and couples sometimes forgot to return (or forgot HOW to), and might be left for Epocs on end, drifting aimlessly. But then again, they at least had each other's company, unlike the poor StarDrifters of today. The ship was named so because of an old saying regarding rapid reproduction rates of certain rabbits, a saying which has since been lost to time... -- Vib Rib -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ship ID: SD "Trash Box". Design Goal:Show off. Crew:Made for 2. Used only by 1. Method of Navigation:Randomization. Engines:One washing machine, one dryer. Spare toaster available. Shielding:Tough head. So what ? :D -- Pomelos -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ship ID: StarDrifter Design goal: Feltyrion Interstellar Recon and Research Vessel Reactors: Several Still Generators, powering anything on the ship by using a grid of pure palladium electrodes, surrounded by molecular hydrogen at high pressure. Crew number: 1 Felisian and one Icaronao Artificial Intelligence Engine capability: 4 VIMANA-drives, 2 in-system anti-grav drive, 2 Ion-pulse drives. Maximum fuel capablity: About 125 gram of Lithium Defence, protection and hull: A level one deflector and anti-grav shield, pluss one VIMANA-shield. Hull made by quarts compound. Older versions also include a mark-2 Fationic cannon. Cargo capability: Unknown, belived at 12 kg maximum crompressed cargo. Other: Includes a Odin-type landing capsule, composed of invisible A-5 compound. The StarDrifter is the most common ship used by the Lost Generation. Commitioned in Epoc 6004, the SD's are much smaller and less effective versions of the StarStrider, but has the strategical advantage that it needs only one Felisian operator, since the Icaronao Artificial Intelligence takes care of most ship systems. The Lost Generation is only a little less then 700 Felisians, and it was hoped that by building StarDrifters, the Lost Generation could cover more ground in the search for a portal to the galaxy of Gardoor, and Neo-Felysia, where the rest of the Felisian species might still be existing. The SD has recived 4 updates, including a new version of the G.O.E.S console, for easy sub-space communication and data-sharing. The SD is programed to drop a Subspace communication node every 100,000 lightyears, so that the SD's can still communicate with each other. Tough the SD gives the word "flying brick" a new and almost literal meaning, it should not be underestimated. It may not be as powerful, awe-inspiering and beautiful-looking as a StarStrider, but this sharming little ship has allready helped mapping several thousand star-systems and about 50 star-clusters in the Feltyrion galaxy, its also very flexible, and can take quite a punch. This is arguably the best ship of choice, if you are a Galactic Explorer. Stargazer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Though we, the Lithium Eaters, don't really need ships for getting from A to B, there are times that we need to move things from A to B, or we might need a weapons platform. In these instances, we generally convert an asteroid by ading a few drive units and shields. Example: Class: Renkhar Size: typically 1 x 2 x 1 km Function: cargo transport Crew: 125 Hull: hollowed-out asteroid, strengthened with "space ice" (a dark, incredibly strong mineral) Power plant: 1x type 3 matter/antimatter reactor, 4x type 5 deuterium fusion generators Propulsion systems: 8x type 6 Vimana units for FTL travel; 4x type 2 fusion engine for sublight travel Maximum velocity (approx.): 50,000c (Vimana-assisted); 0.47c (sublight) Cargo Capacity: 36.5t Armament: 4x type 3 Vimana shields; 1x type 6b ion pulse cannon No-one is quite sure when the Renkhar class was commissioned, but what is certain is that the design came from our ancestors, the four-claws. It is believed that the original Renkhar was a sublight only vessel designed to coast throu ght interstellar void between stars for maybe an epoc or two before reaching its destination. They are not very maneuverable, but they don't really need to be, as they do the job they were built for, and they do it well. However, only four of these survive. -- ShadowClaw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ship ID: Ancient StarDrifter Construction pourpose: Unknown, tough it seems the best choice for exploring both space and subspace. Possibly an intergalactic transport device. Crew: Up to 15 Felisians. Engine Capability: Not known, tough at least 4 super VIMANA-drives, and seems to also have other means of propulsion, possibly an independent Subspace singularity-field generator for intergalactic flight Reactor: Unknown. All attempts to take a closer look at its energy reactor has resulted in the ship engaging some automatic destruction sequence. Highest speed: Unknown. Fuel: The ship seems to be cabable to operate on Lithium, but there are also other, unkown fuel sources. Popular theory suggests the ship actually feeds on pure vaccuum and converts power from it. Cargo Capability: Unknown Defence systems: Unknown, tough the ship seems to be made of some very strong material, and surrounded by a shield no-one has been able to penetrate when its turned on. The ship also seems to have noumerus weapon systems, but these are not yet documented. Other: 500,000 Epocs old, good as new. The ship is two sections, being an surface capsule and a mother-ship. Both can operate independent from each other, tough only the mothership seem capable of interstellar and intergalactic flight. The Ancient StarDrifters became the turnpoint of Felisian history, when they where first discovered at the Gateway 0 hangar on Felysia itself. Almost nothing is known about these ships, only that we know that they where clearly not built for Felisians, and that its systems are incredibly powerful. It was thanks to these ships the Felisians has VIMANA-capability, as the ancient drives where reverse-engineered with the help of the famous astrophysisist Parsis, to fit Felisian technology. However; the Felisians could not figure out how to copy the powerful power-generators, nor the subspace-field device, and the VIMANA used today is several times weaker then that of the original ships. These ancient Starships was clearly built for intergalactic transport, as almost all pre-programmed targets seem to reside in other galaxies then Feltyrion. It was only a few times that the ancient vessels actually picked a target in the Feltyrion galaxy itself, most times, it blasted off into unknown deep-space. After the Great War, no remaining ancient starship could be found, and both Gateway 0 and Gateway 1 had been crushed to oblivion by the Drakhnator. Without further documentation, the secrets of these ancient vessels seem to have been lost, maybe forever. Stargazer.