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Babylon 5 Livestock/Slaver Transport Barge

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Name: Livestock/Slaver Transport
Craft: Livestock/Slaver Transport Barge
Type: Barge
Scale: Capital
Length: 885 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 10; Skeleton: 1/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 3D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 3D+1; Communications: 3D+1; Sensors: 3D+1; Starship Gunnery: 2D+1
Passengers: 2,500 & 300 Prisoners/Large Animals
Cargo Capacity: 5,000 metric tons
Consumables: 2 months
Maneuverability: 2D+2
Space: 12
Hull: 4D+2
Sensors

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

Weapons

  • Particle Beam
Fire Arc: turret
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage: 3D

Miscellaneous:

  • Artificial Gravity: no
  • Crew: 10
  • Officers: 2
  • Pilots: 2
  • Sensor Operators: 1
  • Crewmen: 5
  • Average Crew Experience Level: Civilian
  • Stealth: 2 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
  • Fusion Engine

Complement:

  • Light Shuttle: 8

Description: A huge vessel designed to take massive numbers of life forms – most often livestock – from one place to another, the transport barge has found several other uses since its creation. Made originally for agricultural planets to bring large animals to faraway colonies, the secondary life-support systems that keep waste and polluted air from recycling within the main crew cabins also made it far easier to carry slaves from one place to the next. By segregating the ‘cargo’ completely and monitoring them through a series of connected surveillance angles, the ship’s crew can effectively take care of the life forms from remote. This keeps the crew from having to deal with several days’ worth of collected waste and the droning sounds of penned animals.

Protected by a dense hull and a single particle beam turret, the barge would make a perfect target for raiders or other hijackers. That is, if it were not for the fact that slave barges are generally protected by slavers, and livestock barges can rarely be taken without harming the living cargo. Most raiders are not interested in Zhabarian tiorach or Gorash prellins, as they are much more trouble than they are worth. It is this extra work to make any sort of profit off a livestock run that keeps the vessels safe.

Source:

  • Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 140)
  • thedemonapostle
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