Babylon 5 Maintenance Bot

Name: Maintenance Bot
Craft: Earth Alliance Maintenance Bot
Type: Maintenance Craft
Scale: Character
Length: 4 meters (estimated)
Skill: Starfighter Pilot
Crew: None; remote operated
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 3D; Starfighter Pilot: 4D
Passengers: none
Cargo Capacity: none
Consumables: none
Maneuverability: 5D
Space: 1
Hull: 3D+1
Sensors - None
Weapons

• Grapple

Fire Arc: forward
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