And the other extreme is this HUGE sublight coloniser vessel. Parts of the craft might be useful for other colonies:
1,000,000-ton E.E. Smith -class Colonie transport (GTL10 / TTL9-12)
The E.E. Smith class colonisation vessel is among the largest space-going structures ever build by mankind. Made possible by advances in gravitics that led to the discovery of gravity-well independed thruster plates and artificial gravity, a small number of these craft where build to send out generation ships towards new stars. Due to their rather high technology level few modern societies bother building these sub-light behemoth so it has become the stapel of escapist societies seeking worlds "beyond the jump-range", world so far out that J-Drives would break down before reaching them
The hull is build based on an O'Neill cylinder with a large scale thruster capabel of 1g sustained acceleration at the rear and a massiv meteor screen at the front. The inner cylinder is covered by alternate strips of land and large, closeable windows/lighting elements. Quarters exist to house up to 3000 persons in resonable comfort and supply them with food and total, self-contained life support. This facilities are used to house the ships flight and caretaker crew. Another 12000 persons and around 2000 large animals can be transported in suspended animation and awaken at the target, including crew for the huge factory crafts carried.
The ship carries extensive manufacturing capacities both for use during the flight and after the target system has been reached, including a small spaceyard capabel of building new STL and in some cases FTL craft. The ship itself ends up as a large space station and habitat in system and serves as the basic plattform until the planet has been checked out and the basic infrastructure constructed.
Crew: 3,000 Total. 90 Command and Control, 400 Engineering, 1,453 Maneuver Drive, 100 Medical, 474 Crew Facilities, 15 Lab Techs, 260 Flight Crew, 208 General Staff and Security
<P>Design: 1,000,000-ton USL Hull, Heavy Frame, , Durasteel (Standard) ArmoredDR 500, Total Compartmentalization, 200 Turret (DR 250) with three 250 Mj Std Laser.
Modules: 2 Command Bridge (Hardened), 2 Adv Sensors, 2 Survey System, 2 Scientific Sensors, 10 Probe Module, 2 Traffic Control, 4 PESA-UHv, 2 Adv Commo Suite, 4 Computer Bank (8xMacroframe, HiCap, Hardened), 2 Engineering, 4 Starship Shipyard (30), 87,115 Maneuver Drive (3,484,600 stons thrust), 1,852 Utility, 100 Military Sickbay, 3,000 Low Berth (4 Berthing units each, 12,000 Cryoberths), 2,000 Low Berth (1 Large Animal each, 8,000 Cryoberths), 35 Housing, 35 Farm, 2 Park, Plaza, 6 Factory, 100 Logistics, 5 Military Holoventure, 20 Normal Office, 3 Stage, 6 Theater, 6 Shooting Range, 50 Brig, 100 Gymnasium, 20 Troop Armory, 5 Isolation Laboratory/TL, 5 Physics Laboratory/TL, 5 Laboratory/TL, 1,000 Spacedock (5x100-ton Interplanetary Shuttle), 3,000 Spacedock (15x100-ton Shuttle), 30,000 Vehicle Bay (30000-ton Factory Ship), 30,000 Vehicle Bay (30000-ton Factory Ship), 45,000 Hold, 2,100 Spacedock (35x30-ton Ship's Boat).
Statistics: EMass 3,262,741.8 stons, LMass 3,487,741.8 stons, Cost MCr18,998.84, HP: 11,340,000 (DT 567,000), Size Modifier: +16, HT 12, Maint. 0.1 Hrs (661.6 man-hrs./day).
Performance: sAccel 1.00 G / 1.00 G (empty tanks), Air Speed 0 mph, Dodge -4 + 1/2 Pilot Skill (-4 vs Meson Fire).
30,000-ton Georgius Agricola -class Heavy Mining/Factory ship (GTL10 / TTL9-12)
The Agricola Class Mining/Factory ship is a heavy mobile base for asteroid mining and processing. It uses four daughtercraft to perform the initial fetching and pre-processing. It also serves as a rest and recovery base for her rather cramped mining ships so it has relatively large crew facilities and stores. Ships of this class often serve as an initiial mining outpost being brought in-system in pairs by the huge Wernecke class Jump-Tenders. They are also used as mobile plattforms by some colonisation-efforts
Crew: 350Total. 24 Command and Control, 60 Maneuver Drive, 4 Medical, 12 Crew Facilities, 6 Lab Techs, 8 Turret Gunners, 210 Flight Crew, 10 Mass-Driver, 16 Steward/Purser
Design: 30,000-ton USL Hull, Heavy Frame, DR 500, Total Compartmentalization, 8 Pop Turret (DR 250) with three 250 Mj Std Laser.
Modules: Command Bridge (Hardened), 2 Advanced Sensors, Survey System, 2 Probe Module, 2 Engineering, 100 Mass Driver/Launch Tube (25stons at 60mph), 3,658 Maneuver Drive (146,320 stons thrust), 56 Utility, 350 Stateroom, 50 Stateroom (Civilian catering/supply/entertainment personal), 4 Military Sickbay, Factory, 8 Gymnasium (Large fitness installation), 5 Hall/Bar/Conference Room (Amusement and supply establishments), 4 Logistics, 2 Normal Office, Stage, Theater, 6 Physics Laboratory/TL, 1,000 Vehicle Bay (1000-ton Mining craft[Long range sublight mining craft]), 1,000 Vehicle Bay (1000-ton Mining craft[Long range sublight mining craft]), 1,000 Vehicle Bay (1000-ton Mining craft[Long range sublight mining craft]), 1,000 Vehicle Bay (1000-ton Mining craft[Long range sublight mining craft]), 9,994 Hold, 80 Spacedock (4x10-ton Launch).
Statistics: EMass 96,314.16 stons, LMass 146,284.16 stons, Cost MCr907.64, HP: 1,080,000 (DT 54,000), Size Modifier: +13, HT 12, Maint. 0.7 Hrs (144.6 man-hrs./day).
Performance: sAccel 1.00 G / 1.00 G (empty tanks), Air Speed 39 mph, Dodge -2 + 1/2 Pilot Skill (-4 vs Meson Fire).
1,000-ton Beowulf Shaffer-class Mining/Factory ship (GTL10 / TTL9-12)
The Beowulf Shaffer is one of the many mining ships that ply the belts looking for useful asteroid to process. Basically a brig clad in a decend amount of armor and with solid thrusters she undertakes missions that can take up to a month to complete to fill her cargo holds. To reduce the amount of "dead" ore brought back, she has a small smelter plant aboard allowing the first processing step to be performed on place.
Crew: 50 Total. 17 Command and Control, 3 Engineering, 1 Maneuver Drive, 1 Medical, 2 Lab Techs, 4 Turret Gunners, 22 Flight Crew/Mining experts
Design: 1,000-ton USL Hull, Heavy Frame, DR 500, Total Compartmentalization, 2 Pop Turret (DR 250) with one 40MJ Mining Laser, 2 Pop Turret (DR 250) with three 250 Mj Std Laser.
Modules: Basic Bridge (Hardened), Survey System, Probe Module, Enh Sensors, Engineering, Smelter Unit (A small smelter unit for mining ships and young colonies), 125 Maneuver Drive (5,000 stons thrust), 2 Utility, 25 Stateroom, Military Sickbay, 2 Logistics, 2 Physics Laboratory/TL, 80 Spacedock (4x10-ton Launch), 547 Hold.
Statistics: EMass 2,238.65 stons, LMass 4,973.65 stons, Cost MCr106.85, HP: 135,000 (DT 6,750), Size Modifier: +10, HT 12, Maint. 1.9 Hrs (49.6 man-hrs./day).
Performance: sAccel 1.01 G / 1.01 G (empty tanks), Air Speed 94 mph, Dodge 0 + 1/2 Pilot Skill (-4 vs Meson Fire).