Thunderbird Class Surveyor

Name: Thunderbird
Craft: Thunderbird Class Surveyor
Type: Multipurpose Ship
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 10 meters (estimated)
Weight: 20 tons
Skill: Space Transports
Crew: 1
Passenger Capacity: none
Cargo Capacity: 1,500 pounds
Consumables / Fuel Capacity: 200 pounds (150 hours)
Cost: 2,730
Maintenance Costs: 64 per year
Nav Computer: yes (intra-system only)
Maneuverability: 3D+1
Space: 6; Hard Burn: 8
Atmosphere: 330; 950 kmh; Hard Burn: 365; 1,050 kmh
Hull: 2D+2
Armor: 0D+1
Sensors

• Passive: 50 / 1D
• Scan: 100 / 2D
• Search: 200 / 3D
• Focus: 5 / 4D

Weapons

• 4x 0.2-pound Autocannons

Fire Arc: turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: walker
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-5/10/15
Atmosphere Range: 10-500/1,000/1,500 m
Ammunition: 200 each
Damage: 3D

• Short-Range 20-pound Missile Launcher

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-15/30/45
Atmosphere Range: 10-1,500/3,000/4,500 m
Ammunition: 10
Damage: 7D

• 2 Grapplers (optional)

Fire Arc: Turret
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Range: 1-25/50/100 m
Damage: 5D

Description: This relatively short-range survey ship is usually launched from larger prospecting ships or space stations. While its advanced sensors and armor are intended to keep the ship alive in asteroid fields, the vessel’s become popular with a select group of bounty hunters who put up with the cramped conditions in exchange for an alert, agile, and relatively robust vessel. While its launcher is designed to release probes, it can easily be modified to hold light missiles, and two hardpoint grapplers (Strength 5D) forward.

Source:

• The Firefly and Serenity Database: Thunderbird Class
• Serenity Role Playing Game: Six-Shooters & Spaceships (page 105)
• thedemonapostle