Approved Starship Ainsworth-class, Medical Courier

[Ethanael Halscott]

AINSWORTH-CLASS MEDICAL COURIER​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To give the Commonwealth Medical Service a fast, light inter-facility courier for time-critical patient transfers and priority medical cargo — organs, bacta, blood products, rare pharmaceuticals — between secured Commonwealth medical facilities.
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• Primary Source: Commonwealth Medical Service; ISR/21 "Harrier" Recon Fighter

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
• Affiliation: Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: CNC-CMS-MTCS-A1 "Ainsworth"
• Production: Minor
• Material:
  
  • Lightweight Durasteel / Alusteel Airframe
  • Reinforced Duraplast Liner
  • Glasteel Viewports
  • Medical-grade climate-controlled cargo cell

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Medical Courier / Light Transport
• Length: 16m
• Width: 3m
• Height: 7m
• Armament: None
• Defenses: Low
  
  • Minimal deflector shielding; the Ainsworth survives on speed and secured airspace, not protection.
• Squadron Count: Very Low - 4
• Maneuverability Rating: High
• Speed Rating: Very High
• Hyperdrive: Yes
  
  • Primary: 1.0

STANDARD FEATURES

• Standard life-support and avionics suite
• Standard navigation and astrogation systems
• Encrypted Commonwealth IFF; CMS emergency transponder; treaty-protected markings; priority-traffic clearance handling
• Climate- and stasis-controlled medical cargo cell (organs, bacta, blood products, sensitive pharmaceuticals)
• Single critical-patient stasis/transport position with full monitoring

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• FRIES-IV Modular Suite — thermal regulation protecting the cargo cell's stasis environment and the patient position under sustained high-speed running.
• Crystal-Integrated Harmonic Regulator — energy stabilization across the stasis cell and propulsion during hard, fast transits.
• Wagner-type Precision Hyperjump System — a dedicated short-range precision hyperdrive with an accuracy-biased backup drive, letting the Ainsworth perform a precise orbital microjump to a high-atmosphere insertion point above its destination, then descend fast and conventionally. It does not materialize inside the atmosphere (canon treats that as effectively impossible). For a courier whose entire purpose is beating the clock, this is the signature capability — it turns an inter-facility run that would cost hours of in-system flight into an orbital blink and a dive.

STRENGTHS

• Speed is the point. A very fast, highly maneuverable airframe purpose-built to beat the clock on a failing organ, a critical patient, or a bacta shortage between secured facilities.
• Orbit-to-site in a blink. Its precision microjump drive collapses long in-system transits into an orbital jump and a fast descent — the sharpest expression of "minutes are the medicine" in the fleet.
• Precision cargo. Its climate- and stasis-controlled cell, stabilized by FRIES-IV, protects exactly the fragile, time-critical payloads ordinary transports ruin in transit.

WEAKNESSES

• Fragile. Light construction and minimal defenses mean it cannot survive a contested environment; it is a secured-space craft only.
• Tiny capacity. Built for one critical patient or a small priority payload — a scalpel, not an ambulance; it cannot serve as a general casualty hauler.

DESCRIPTION

The Ainsworth is the Commonwealth Medical Service's answer to the one enemy no surgeon can out-argue: time. When a transplant organ is viable for hours, when a critical patient needs a specialist three systems away, when a frontier clinic is one bacta delivery short of saving a life, the Ainsworth closes the distance.

It is small, light, and very fast — a courier, not an ambulance; a scalpel, not a stretcher. Its single critical-patient position and its climate- and stasis-controlled cargo cell, held stable by FRIES-IV, are built for fragile, time-critical payloads, and it runs the secured lanes between the fixed jewels of the CMS network — Prosperia General, Sejong's Central Hospital, the research and rehabilitation centers, and stations like Windsor II — where the question is never whether the route is safe but only how fast it can be flown. Its precision microjump drive sharpens that to a point: where another craft would burn hours crossing a system, the Ainsworth blinks to a high-atmosphere insertion above its destination and dives. It makes no claim to toughness, carries no weapon, and would not survive a contested environment; that is not its job. It belongs to a Commonwealth secure enough in its own space to optimize a medical craft purely for speed.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

Under Review.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

Ethanael Halscott

Looks good. Approved.