Babylon 5 Drakh Entire Shuttle
Name: Shuttle
Craft: Drakh Entire Shuttle
Type: Shuttle
Scale: starfighter
Length: estimated to be no greater than 30 meters
Skill: Space Transports
Crew: 1
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D; Communications: 5D; Sensors: 5D; Space Transports: 5D
Passengers: 24
Cargo Capacity: 10 metric tons
Consumables: 1 week
Maneuverability: 3D+2
Space: 9
Atmosphere: 400; 1,150 km/h
Hull: 4D
Sensors
- Passive: 48 / 1D+1
- Scan: 96 / 3D
- Search: 144 / 4D+1
- Focus: 5 / 6D
Weapons - None
Miscellaneous:
- Artificial Gravity: Yes
- Crew: 1
- Pilots: 1
- Average Crew Experience Level: Drakh Line
- Stealth: 13 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
- Gravitic Engine
- Atmosphere Capable
- Drakh Flight Computer
Description: Atasa, ‘Windflower’.
The standard Drakh shuttle strongly resembles a Vorlon vessel – petals blossom from the rear of the ship when in flight. These panels serve a variety of functions: cargo can be attached to them, they are covered in sensor arrays, and they can also be used to coast on solar winds or on emissions from gravitic drives. When a Clanfleet is in flight, the shuttles that dart between larger ships need only use their own drives for a few seconds in each trip, saving energy by hitching a ride on the gravity field of larger vessels.
The crew section of the shuttle is in the central bulb. The shuttle needs only a single pilot, and can carry up to two dozen passengers (other races would find the accommodations on board the shuttle cramped, but the Drakh are used to sitting in small niches) along with a cargo payload. The shuttles are surprisingly manoeuvrable for their size thanks to their gravitic drives.
The shuttle is capable of entering atmosphere, but only if the ‘petals’ are wrapped around the central bulb, limiting the amount of cargo that can be transferred from surface to orbit by these shuttles.
Source:
- The Babylon 5 Project: Drakh shuttle
- Babylon 5: The Drakh (page 59)
- thedemonapostle