Leeway Class Ship's Launch
Name: Leeway
Craft: Leeway Class Ship's Launch
Type: Light freighter
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 25 meters (estimated)
Weight: 80 tons
Skill: Space Transports
Crew: 1
Passenger Capacity: none (unless cargo area is converted)
Cargo Capacity: 20 tons
Consumables / Fuel Capacity: 1 ton (300 hours)
Cost: 1,280
Maintenance Costs: 64 per year
Nav Computer: yes (intra-system only)
Maneuverability: 3D+1
Space: 4; Hard Burn: 6
Atmosphere: 280; 800 kmh; Hard Burn: 330; 950 kmh
Hull: 1D+1
Sensors
- Passive: 10 / 0D+1
- Scan: 20 / 0D+1
- Search: 30 / 0D+2
- Focus: 1 / 1D
Weapons - None
Description: The Leeway class is a fair example of a common ship’s launch, or jolly boat. There are maybe 15 manufacturers making ships so similar that parts are near interchangeable.
The jolly boat is little more than a flying box. The front is a ramp with inset hatch, allowing for softseal docking to other vessels without opening the ramp. Once open, the ship is simply a 20 by 10 by 10 cargo area, with a ladder leading up to the pilot’s seat. The ship has ventral cargo latches for attaching and hauling loads larger than will fit inside the cargo hold.
While it has a 300-hour operating capacity, it has right sparse amenities for the pilot, so actual operating times usually do not exceed eight hours.
Aside from standard shuttles, this ship or ones much like it may be the most common vessels in the ‘Verse. Most bulk transports have a handful of ‘em for ferrying small cargo loads or passengers planetside. If you manage to get past the swarm of fighters escorting a Tohoku-class cruiser, you must then navigate the cloud of ship’s launches moving about.
Source:
- Serenity Role Playing Game: Six-Shooters & Spaceships (page 93)
- thedemonapostle