Milo Tyranne
Character
- Type 199 MHI -
Affiliation - Various Miln organizations and individuals.
Manufacturer - Various Miln corporations
Modularity - No.
Production - Limited.
Material - Titanium, steel, tempered glass.
Classification - Bulk freighter.
Length - 330 meters.
Height - 55 meters.
Width - 55 meters.
Armament -
2x heavy beam diffusion smoke caster.
1x self-destruct system, causes fission reactor meltdown, can be set to function similarly to a spar torpedo for suicide ramming attacks.
4x light dropship, usually Type 96 AUL, can be substituted with other light aerospace craft.
- 1x automatic pilot computer.
- 1x navigational computer.
- 2x radionic transceiver.
- 1x comm laser transceiver.
- 1x microwave transceiver/sensor.
- 1x subspace transceiver.
- 2x radar sensor.
- 1x x-ray sensor.
- 1x thermal imager.
- 1x ultraviolet imager.
- 1x electrotelescope.
- 1x thermometer.
- 1x spectrometer.
- 1x radiation sensor.
- 1x electromagnetic sensor.
- 2x floodlight.
- 2x heavy manipulator arm.
- 4x tow cable launcher.
- 24-48x external cargo container.
- 1x on-board hydroponic garden.
- 20x stasis booth.
- 2x electrostatic repulsion field.
1x sickbay.
2x solar panel.
1x nuclear fission reactor.
1x fission fragment drive.
1x blackout drive (Miln hyperdrive).
Speed Rating - 5.
Hyperdrive Class - 4.
Strengths -
Long-lasting nuclear propulsion and power systems require only very infrequent refueling.
Capable of independent operation for extremely long durations, limited only by crew fatigue and the useful lifetime of its power sources (which is long indeed).
Can reach fairly high sublight speeds for a ship of its size and role.
Can effectively fly itself, if required.
Many reliable systems, most of which can be repaired by the crew with minimal resources.
Very large cargo capacity.
No deflector shields.
No inertial compensator.
No artificial gravity (except via centrifugal rotation in the habitation ring).
Incapable of atmospheric reentry.
Sluggish sublight handling; can reach relatively high speeds, but is slow to accelerate and maneuvers poorly.
Limited crew and passenger capacity, despite its large size.
Fission-based power and propulsion systems generate considerable waste heat and dangerous amounts of radiation, the former necessitating large and vulnerable radiant cooling vanes.
Completely unarmed, save for beam diffusion smoke casters and a self-destruct system.
Primitive hyperdrive design requires crew and passengers to retreat into stasis booths during operation, due to radiation hazards.
Simplistic navigational computer must re-calibrate and calculate for the next set of coordinates after each individual jump, which can render more complicated jump sequences extremely time consuming.
- Description -
The Type 199 MHI is a heavy freighter built and primarily operated by the Miln. Mainly employed in the long-range interstellar merchant trade, its letter designation stands for Merchant, Hyperspace, Independent, and it is the 199th vessel to be approved and standardized for sale and service in this role by the Hafnip Federation's Bureau of Interstellar Commerce, or BIC.
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Type 199 MHI with double-stacked cargo containers.
The Type 199 MHI shares a common keel, propulsion system, power supply and general layout with the Type 99 SHI, a long-range scout vessel currently in service with the Miln Astrogational Corps. Whereas the Type 99 is optimized for scientific exploration, however, the Type 199 is instead focused toward hauling large amounts of cargo over long distances.
The Type 199 can mount 24 large spherical cargo containers, each with a 1,000 ton capacity, for a total load of 24,000 tons, 10,000 more than the Type 99. It shares the Type 99's hangar and crew operations block, but incorporates an enlarged rotation block, allowing for more passenger space; 10, compared to the Type 99's 5, with 5 crew.
If necessary, the Type 199's cargo capacity can be made larger by double-stacking containers, though this only worsens the ship's acceleration.
Though the Type 199 has an outwardly similar communications and sensor package to the Type 99, its range and sensitivity has been downgraded. The ship's laboratory has also been deleted to make room for additional crew and passenger stasis booths, though it retains a full-featured sickbay.
Type 199s are also typically unarmed.
Like all Miln vessels at this time, the Type 199 lacks certain fundamental features found aboard ships built by more technologically advanced cultures; amenities such as inertial compensators, true artificial gravity and deflector shields. The ship's life support system, as well, is tied into an old-fashioned biological recycling system which purifies water, converts carbon dioxide into oxygen and transforms waste into edible crops and even livestock (mainly crustaceans and edible insects, as per Miln tastes), for harvest and consumption by the crew and passengers.
In order to cope with long periods without true gravity, most Miln vessels, including the Type 199, are fitted with rotating "wheel" sections, which create centrifugal force on their inside walls as they spin. When not in hyperspace, passengers and crew not on duty spend much of their time in this area, in order to prevent the development of microgravity-related illnesses.
Speaking of hyperspace, Type 199s share the same hyperdrive technology used by the Type 99 and all other Miln vessels, a nasty little piece of equipment colloquially known as a "blackout drive." Developed by the Miln, blackout drives function more or less identically to normal hyperdrives, except in the matter of their null quantum field generators. Rather than projecting the field around the ship, as most others do, this version of the technology conducts it through the hull and fittings, flooding the ship with high-energy radiation which would destroy any unprotected organic material.
Consequently, Miln passengers and crew typically sit out hyperspace jumps in heavily shielded stasis pods; most ships' hydroponics bays are similarly protected, as are standard Miln cargo containers.
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Independent Miln freighter, with joined sphere and double-stacked containers.
Despite all their shortcomings, Type 199s and vessels like them are an important part of increasingly wide-ranging Miln trade and commerce. Though many are operated as part of large corporate fleets, an equal number are independently owned, becoming home to nomadic "merchanter" families who ply the star-ways, sometimes even beyond the limits of the Miln frontiers of exploration. Perhaps even more-so than the ships and crews of the state-sponsored Miln Astrogational Corps, these vessels and the beings who live and work aboard them have become the face of the Miln in the wider Galaxy.
Intent - This vessel is intended to serve as a common type of transport available to Miln characters.
Who Can Use This - Miln PCs, NPCs and organizations.
Note - I made my own art for this submission! What d'you think?
