Babylon 5 Maintenance Bot
Name: Maintenance Bot
Craft: Earth Alliance Maintenance Bot
Type: Maintenance Craft
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 4 meters (estimated)
Skill: Starfighter Pilot
Crew: None; remote operated
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 3D; Communications: 3D; Sensors: 3D; Starship Gunnery: 4D; Starfighter Pilot: 3D
Passengers: none
Cargo Capacity: none
Consumables: none
Maneuverability: 5D
Space: 1
Hull: 1D
Sensors - None
Weapons
- Grapple
- Fire Arc: turret
Crew:1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 0D
Range: 2 meters
Strength: 3D
Miscellaneous:
- Artificial Gravity: no
- Crew: none
- Average Crew Experience Level: EarthForce Green
- Stealth: 10 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
Description: A common sight around space stations, shipyards and transfer point flotillas, the maintenance bot is primarily a labor saving device, able to perform minor repairs and visual inspections without requiring a crewman to don an EVA pressure suit and enter the void – which is always a danger. It is not a true autonomous robot as it still requires a crewman to direct its functions from a remote control station but its high degree of artificial intelligence allows it to automatically monitor its own movement, allowing even a relatively unskilled technician to operate it adequately.
Unarmed for obvious reasons, the maintenance bot carries a fire extinguisher capable of quickly snuffing fuel-based fires. As most ship-fires are fueled by leaking atmosphere, a maintenance bot’s extinguisher fires a dense, thick foam to not only stamp out the existing flames but to clog up any life-support leaks a vessel might have – starving the fire and hopefully saving anyone inside from hypoxia.
Source:
- Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 158)
- The Babylon 5 Project: Maintenance Bot
- thedemonapostle