Babylon 5 Civilian Trader

Name: Trader
Craft: Civilian Trader
Type: Multipurpose Vessel
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 95 meters (estimated)
Skill: Space Transports
Crew: 1
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 3D+1; Communications: 3D+1; Sensors: 3D+1; Space Transports: 3D+1; Starship Gunnery: 2D+1
Passengers: 3
Cargo Capacity: 60 metric tons
Consumables: 2 weeks
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 3
Atmosphere: 260; 750 km/h
Hull: 5D
Sensors

• Passive: 4 / 0D
• Scan: 8 / 0D+1
• Search: 12 / 0D+1
• Focus: 1 / 0D+1

Weapons

• Light Particle Gun

Fire Arc: turret
Crew: 1
Scale: Walker
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 0D+2
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Atmosphere Range: 10-200/400/800m
Damage: 3D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: Pilots: 1
• Average Crew Experience Level: Civilian
• Stealth: 8 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Atmosphere Capable
• Fusion Engine

Notes:

• A civilian trader that does not wish to use its light particle gun at all can temporarily, with a Difficulty 12 Space Transports Repair skill check, convert a single weapon space over to an additional engine space until converted back. Note, that this will be just enough to give the trader an additional +2 Space speed if the remainder of its engine spaces are undamaged.

Description: A vessel that wears a dozen different faces depending on where it is seen, the trader is perhaps the most common vessel in the galaxy. Used to ferry goods, people, information and resources in small amounts across great distances, the civilian trader is a cheap and reliable way to get around along the spacelanes. Every government, company, corporate agency and secret navy has at least one or two of these simple cylindrical vessels at their disposal.

Truly a civilian vessel, the trader has the most simple weapon system – a single particle gun turret – to defend itself. The weapon is rarely effective against anything except the occasional asteroid or lucky hit against an unlucky fighter, which is why so few traders even arm the weapon, preferring to use the extra power to overcharge engine output instead.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 131-132)
• thedemonapostle