Bernard Class Salvage & Rescue Vessel
Name: Bernard
Craft: Bernard Class Search and Rescue Vessel
Type: Salvage Vessel
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 41.5 meters (estimated)
Weight: 1,800 tons
Skill: Space Transports
Crew: 3; skeleton: 1/+5
Passenger Capacity: none standard
Cargo Capacity: 295 tons
Consumables / Fuel Capacity: 45 tons (600 hours)
Cost: 88,800
Maintenance Costs: 3,600 per year
Nav Computer: yes (intra-system only)
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 4
Atmosphere: 280; 800 kmh
Hull: 4D+2
Sensors
- Passive: 30 / 0D+1
- Scan: 60 / 1D
- Search:90 / 1D+1
- Focus: 3 / 2D
Weapons
- 2 Hardpoint Grapplers
- Fire Arc: turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+1
Range: 1-100/250/500 m
Damage: 6D
- 2 Magnetic Grapplers
- Fire Arc: turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+1
Range: 1-100/250/500 m
Damage: 6D
Description: Designed primarily as a rescue ship, the Bernard is an incredibly robust vessel, capable of holding a large number of passengers in a pinch. Storage rooms along two “arms” come equipped with fold down bunks, and the ship has tethers for emergency auxiliary power and life support to assist stranded vessels.
The ship’s primary role is towing. Its grapplers and grav drives are capable of towing a ship of 7,200 tons safely at interplanetary speeds. The grappling lines themselves can handle much higher initial shock loads, allowing the ship to grapple another, and then use its engines to remove any tumbling speed. The ship’s hull is reinforced, allowing it to take minor impacts in debris fields without serious damage, with good containment in the event of hull breach.
All of these fine qualities made the ships perfect for Reavers. Operators of the vessels on or around Miranda responded to distress beacons, only to have their ships and lives taken when confronted with marauding Reaver hunting parties.
Source:
- The Firefly and Serenity Database: Bernard Class
- Serenity Role Playing Game: Six-Shooters & Spaceships (page 86)
- thedemonapostle