Vorlon Empire Transport Class
Craft: Vorlon Empire Transport
Type: transport
Scale: capital
Length: 131 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 1
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 10D+1; Capital Ship Pilot: 10D+1; Capital Ship Gunnery: 8D; Communications: 10D+1; Sensors: 10D+1; Starship Gunnery: 8D; Planetary Systems: 10D+1; Tactics: 10D+1; Command: 10D+1
Passengers: 200
Cargo Capacity: 200 metric tons
Consumables: 20 months
Hyperdrive: x0.5
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 5D+1
Space: 8
Atmosphere: 365; 1,050kmh
Hull: 3D+2
Sensors
- Passive: 100/3D+1
- Scan: 200/4D+1
- Search: 300/5D+1
- Focus: 10/6D+1
Weapons
- Discharge Gun
- Fire Arc: fore
Crew: 0
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D
Space Range: 1-15/35/75
Atmosphere Range: 2-30/70/150
Damage: 20D
Notes
- Adaptive Armor: Found only on the most advanced spacecraft that use bio-technology, adaptive armor is a layer on the hull that can intelligently and automatically react to any incoming fire. By moderating its surface, conductive properties and introducing reflective enhancements within a fraction of a second, the energy of any attack may be dissipated, leaving just the actual force of the blast to strike the hull. Adaptive armor will automatically quarter the Total Offense of any barrage that hits it.
- Living Ship: The Vorlons and Shadows are masters of bio-technology, to the extent that they are able to construct (or perhaps grow) spacecraft that are actually sentient and aware. It is able to make intelligent decisions for itself. It is able to execute up to five orders per turn. It has a skill rating of 14D+1 for all skills. If this special ship trait is ever neutralized, the craft must have its command functions taken over; else it becomes merely a drifting hulk.
Description: Vorlons are the most technologically advanced race yet encountered by the young races in the galaxy as of the 23rd Century. Even their transports, while rarely seen, are beautiful wonders to behold. Like all Vorlon vessels, the transport is a product of highly advanced bio-technology grown in a living matrix deep in the Empire – in a strange way, it is alive and sentient. By all accounts they seem capable of flying themselves without direction from the Vorlon pilot.
Although classified and utilized as a transport, this vessel is very well armed and quite capable of defending itself against almost any attackers, with its superior durability and electromagnetic based weapon systems keeping it and its treasured passenger(s) safe from harm. There has never been a successful attack on a Vorlon transport in which the passenger came to harm. Bred for over protectiveness and unwavering loyalty to its owner, the transport will never allow anything to happen so long as it can help it.
Source: Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 89-90); thedemonapostle