Babylon 5 Salvager Tender

Name: Salvager
Craft: Belt Alliance Salvager Tender
Type: Tender
Scale: Capital
Length: 828 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 24; Skeleton: 2/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D+2; Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D+2; Communications: 4D+2; Sensors: 4D+2; Starship Gunnery: 3D
Passengers: 2,500
Cargo Capacity: 5,000 metric tons
Consumables: 3 months
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 6
Hull: 5D
Sensors

• Passive: 20 / 0D+2
• Scan: 40 / 1D+1
• Search: 60 / 1D+2
• Focus: 2 / 2D+1

Weapons

• 2 Particle Beams

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

• 4 Mk I Interceptors

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capial ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage:

• Offensive: 0D+2
• Intercept: 2D

• 4 Grapples

Fire Arc: turrets
Crew:1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Range: 50 meters
Strength: 3D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: 24

• Officers: 2
• Pilots: 6
• Sensor Operators: 2
• Crewmen: 14

• Average Crew Experience Level: Belt Alliance Line
• Stealth: 8 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Fusion Engine

Complement:

• Heavy Shuttles: 4

Description: After the Dilgar War, the Belt Alliance saw fields and fields of destroyed starships floating as flotsam in the void – all within a few jumps of their main colonies. Knowing that it was an opportunity they could not pass up, the Salvager was pieced together and sent out in large numbers to bring back as much as they could carry to research, retrofit or simply sell to the highest bidder. The Salvager was a huge vessel capable of expelling shuttles filled with EVA scrap experts and technicians, and covered in towing cables for larger pieces that could not be brought into its huge cargo hangars.

While not as efficient as other fleet tender vessels, the Salvager was never designed with that as its primary role. The Belt Alliance was better off purchasing or claiming fallen Cotten Tenders for that role, and continued to use the Salvager for bulk materials and battlefield cleaning. In the dawn of the 23rd Century, most Salvagers are now used by junking guilds and professional scrap salvage teams, many of which have become floating business offices where down-on-their-luck crews can come and purchase second (or third, or fourth) hand ship components for their own vessels.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 148-149)
• thedemonapostle