Babylon 5 Long Range Survey Ship

Name: Survey Ship
Craft: Long Range Survey Ship
Type: Survey Ship
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 139 meters
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 1
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 3D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 3D+1; Communications: 3D+1; Sensors: 3D+1
Passengers: 2
Cargo Capacity: 20 metric tons
Consumables: 22 days
Hyperdrive: x10
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 3D+1
Space: 11
Hull: 4D+2
Sensors

• Passive: 32 / 1D
• Scan: 64 / 2D
• Search: 96 / 3D
• Focus: 3 / 4D

Weapons - None

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: yes
• Crew: 1 pilot
• Average Crew Experience Level: Civilian
• Stealth: 8 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Gravitic Engine

Complement:

• Light Shuttle: 1

Description: A class of ship built by several of the more ‘advanced’ races, a long range survey vessel is little more than a few rooms built around powerful engines and even more powerful sensor arrays. Used to find suitable planets for colonization or exploration, these ships are not built for combat in the slightest and rely on the fact that most of the places they travel to have no sentient inhabitants. At least, none recorded as of yet.

Most are fully automated to hold orbit or attain specific landing information, having computers on board that are nearly autonomous and borderline A.I. These computers make up for the fact that the ships themselves rarely have large or highly trained crews, those being reserved for the following colony ships.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 140-141)
• thedemonapostle