Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a third-generation bulk freighter for Aurora Industries to utilize and sell.
- Image Source:
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions:
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: Aurora Industries
- Affiliation:
- Aurora Industries
- Individuals, Companies, and Factions that have purchased, licensed, or contracted the company.
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Balfonheim-class Bulk Freighter
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- Solarium Glasteel - Viewports
- Desh-Terenthium - Outer Layer Hull Plating
- Hijarna Stone - Outer Layer Hull Plating
- Agrinium - Middle Layer Hull Plating
- Laminanium - Middle Layer Hull Plating
- Impervium - Inner Layer Hull Plating
- Titanium - Inner Layer Hull Plating
- Alusteel - Structural Skeleton
- Starship Components and Electronics
- Classification: Bulk Freighter
- Length: 360 meters
- Width: 75 meters
- Height: 60 meters
- Armament: Very Low
- One Dual AI-LC4 "Valefor" Laser Cannon Turret - Dorsal Mounted, 360 Degree Rotation
- Defenses: Very High
- Titan-Type Advanced Plating
- Three-layered Armored Plating
- Kirin Shielding System
- Four-layered Shielding
- Titan-Type Advanced Plating
- Hangar Space: Average
- Two Squadrons
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 1 squadron
- Support Craft: 1 squadron
- Single Craft Hangar: No
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- 55 DPF
- Speed Rating: High
- 100 MGLT
- Hyperdrive: Class I
- Life Support Systems
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Four Escape Pods - Able to fit ten individuals each.
- Other Shielding Systems
- Power Generator
- One Frigate-scaled Starscourge Reactor System
- Navicomputer and Guidance Systems
- Standard Navigation Systems
- Standard Guidance Systems
- Targeting Systems
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Crew Compliment
- Minimum Crew - 15
- One Pilot
- One Co-Pilot
- One Additional Personnel
- Twelve Fighter or Support Craft Pilots
- Recommended Crew - 40
- One Pilot
- One Co-Pilot
- Fourteen Additional Personnel
- Twenty-Four Fighter or Support Craft Pilots
- Minimum Crew - 15
- Cargo/Passenger Capacity
- 200,000 Metric Tons
- Consumables
- One Galactic Standard Year worth of supplies
- Communications and Sensor Array
- Cargo Systems
- Four Tractor Beam Projectors - Two located on the starboard and port sides, used for moving cargo.
- Engine Systems
- Four Frigate-scaled Garuda Variable Ion Drives
- Countermeasures
- Balfonheim-class bulk freighters are heavily armored and shielded, making use of the heavier three-layered Titan Advanced Plating and the four-layered Kirin Shielding System, ensuring that any crew and cargo are protected. The Balfonheim-class also makes use of several defensive countermeasures against missiles and torpedo attacks.
- Balfonheim-class bulk freighters are incredibly fast for their vessel class, making use of four Garuda Variable Ion Drives to achieve the necessary speeds desired by the company and its engineers to facilitate speedy trade. The Balfonheim-class is also equipped with a Madeen Shiftdrive, giving it a Class I hyperdrive for quick traversal across the galaxy and the ability to make cargo deliveries to Otherspace or vice versa.
- Balfonheim-class bulk freighters are outfitted with both a Syldra Communications Suite and a Divine Eyes Sensor and Electronics System, giving them several methods of secure communications and a large variety of sensors they can utilize while moving through systems.
- Balfonheim-class bulk freighters are designed with a hangar bay that can hold a squadron of fighter craft and a squadron of support craft such as shuttles or cargo haulers along with its ability to haul 200,000 metric tons of cargo.
- While they are heavily armored and shielded, the Balfonheim-class has only one dual Valefor laser cannon in terms of armament. This forces it to rely mostly upon its defenses, speed, and potential squadron of fighter craft to protect against attackers such as pirates or void-dwelling creatures.
- While the Balfonheim-class is equipped with four Garuda Ion Drives and has incredibly speeds, its maneuverability is much lower than expected due to the considerations made for its cargo and the weight of such large loads.
- If the molecular furnaces within the Garuda Ion Drives are damaged or sabotaged, they will consume the engine and leave the Balfonheim-class freighter dead in space and heavily damaged.
- Due to the shield emitters of the Kirin being scattered across the hull, if parts of the hull become damaged, gaps can form in the overlapping shield layers of the freighter. In addition, as the sensors for the Divine Eyes system are also scattered along the hull, damage to it can knock out and create blind spots in the passive sensor array.
Developed as part of Aurora Industries' Highwind Program, the Balfonheim-class bulk freighter is designed to replace the older Pakader-class freighter the company had been making use of for years now. The engineers of the company decided to greatly expand upon the size of the older freighter, easily tripling the size of the ship and giving it a greatly increased cargo capacity of 200,000 metric tons, while also making use of the company's newer technologies to increase its defenses and speed over the older freighter. As the first vessel to make use of the Titan-type Advanced Plating for its hull and the Kirin Shielding System, the vessel has incredibly high defenses to ensure it can take a great deal of hits from attackers. The ship is also designed around four Garuda Variable Ion Drives to give it desired speeds along with a Madeen Shiftdrive for a powerful hyperdrive.
A vast improvement over the older Pakader is the inclusion of a hangar bay in the middle section of the ship, giving it and its crew the ability to fly a squadron of fighter craft and a squadron's worth of support craft such as shuttles and cargo haulers. The ship is also equipped with four tractor beam projectors for ease of moving cargo into its cargo bays.
