Babylon 5 Corporate Freighter
Name: Corporate Freighter
Craft: Fairspace Industries Corporate Freighter
Type: Freighter
Scale: Capital
Length: 220 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 12; Skeleton: 1/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 3D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 3D+1; Communications: 3D+1; Sensors: 3D+1; Starship Gunnery: 2D+1
Passengers: 200
Cargo Capacity: 400 metric tons
Consumables: 4 months
Maneuverability: 1D+2
Space: 1
Hull: 3D
Sensors - None
Weapons
- Particle Gun
- Fire Arc: turret
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 0D+1
Space Range: 1/3/6
Damage: 2D+1
Miscellaneous:
- Artificial Gravity: no
- Crew: 12
- Officers: 2
- Pilots: 3
- Sensor Operators: 1
- Crewmen: 6
- Average Crew Experience Level: Civilian
- Stealth: 5 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
- Fusion Engine
Description: Another vessel that is omnipresent throughout inhabited space, the mainstay freighter is little more than a trader ship with the ability to attach, monitor and deliver cargo pods in numbers. Some more profitable corporations are capable of sending these freighters into space, maximizing on the value of the cargoes they carry between transfer points and colony worlds. While there are dozens of variations on the basic freighter hull, the Fairspace Industries variety is the most commonly recognized and used by the largest contracts. Its hull is familiar to nearly any cargo running crew, and several shipping companies own entire fleets of them.
This freighter is typical of many similar designs, being little more than a comfortable crew compartment and engines built around a framework that has attachments for the carrying of eight universal cargo pods. To cut back on lengthy delays at any port of call while cargo is unloaded, the freighter can simply detach its cargo pods through a series of password-coded switches in the cockpit. Once the cargo loaders are in position, the freighter can simply leave them behind to deal with the cargo and move to pick up the next consignment within a few hours. Freighter captains have been known to drop their cargo pods while being pursued by raiders in an effort to survive the attack, giving them hopefully what they are after, but most employers frown on this ‘cowardice’.
Source:
- Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 133)
- thedemonapostle