Babylon 5 Corporate Tanker

Name: Tanker
Craft: Corporate Tanker
Type: Freighter
Scale: Capital
Length: 260 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 7; Skeleton: 1/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 3D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 3D+1; Communications: 3D+1; Sensors: 3D+1; Starship Gunnery: 2D+1
Passengers: 250
Cargo Capacity: 500 metric tons
Consumables: 42 days
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 3
Hull: 3D
Sensors

• Passive: 8 / 0D+1
• Scan: 16 / 0D+1
• Search: 24 / 0D+2
• Focus: 1 / 1D

Weapons

• 2 Particle Beams

Fire Arc: 2 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+2
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage: 3D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: 7
  • Pilots: 1
  • Sensor Operators: 1
  • Crewmen: 5
• Average Crew Experience Level: Civilian
• Stealth: 5 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Fusion Engine

Complement:

• Light Shuttle: 1

Description: Similar in construction to the corporate freighter and civilian trader, the tanker replaces the reinforced cargo pod hangers with attachment points for vast tanks capable of carrying a variety of different gases or liquids – many of which are the sole reason certain companies exist at all. Such vessels are the lifeline to many desolate worlds with few resources of their own, transporting important fuels, resources and even necessary substances to sustain life in their armored tanks. Although slightly more protected than a common freighter, there is a great deal of risk carrying fuel oils or pressurized foodstuffs through the void of space.

Tanker pilots generally make a higher wage than common cargo runners, as there is a definite risk involved in being strapped to a tanker’s cargo. Any attackers who do not have the best control of their weapons could puncture a filled tank, causing either a catastrophic explosion or a massive depressurization that would crush the rest of the ship like a tin can, which in turn would cause a fusion reactor meltdown – and the aforementioned catastrophic explosion.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 133-134)
• thedemonapostle