Babylon 5 Cargo Loader

Name: Cargo Loader
Craft: Fairspace Industries Majestic-class Cargo Loader
Type: Cargo Freighter
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 20 meters (estimated)
Skill: Space Transports
Crew: 1
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 2D+1; Communications: 2D+1; Sensors: 2D+1; Space Transports: 2D+1; Starship Gunnery: 2D+2
Passengers: 6
Cargo Capacity: 5 metric tons
Consumables: none
Maneuverability: 2D+2
Space: 3
Hull: 2D
Sensors - None
Weapons

• Grapple

Fire Arc: turret
Crew:1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 0D
Range: 50 meters
Strength: 3D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: 1 Pilot
• Average Crew Experience Level: Civilian
• Stealth: 4 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Fusion Engine

Description: Officially known as the Majestic-class by anyone looking to buy them from Fairspace Industries, the cargo loader is a common sight around every heavily trafficked port and transfer point in the known galaxy. Able to carry three fully loaded cargo pods simultaneously in its grapple claws, the loader is far more difficult to operate than a standard maintenance pod, but can unload half the entire load of a corporate freighter in just one trip. It takes a three-week course of basic piloting skills to achieve a commercial-grade loader license, and most dock workers have to get it before being allowed to perform any duties outside the station at all.

Any outpost used as a trading station is likely to have at least a small complement of cargo loaders, with several licensed and insured workers to pilot them. While maintenance bots can be piloted by remote, cargo loaders are generally only ever trusted to a true pilot – as lawsuits due to the technical error of a remote pilot could be disastrous.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 131)
• thedemonapostle