RogerD
SOC-12
This ship is the first jump ship after the discovery of the jump drive. Its job is to test to see that jump drive works by jumping to an adjacent system, perform a type II survey of the system to identify what the major worlds are and their composition and to return home with the data. She has an endurance of 60 days and a crew of 6. During jump transition it is expected that all three engineering consoles will be in use, both to monitor the drives and to collect data to improve the jump drive. Once in the system, it is expected that the ship will maneuver some with her HEPlaR drive and use her sensors to locate and classify any planets in the system. She will then make the reverse trip and be debriefed upon her return.
Notes:
Notes:
- Took serious advantage of being overtonned to provide fuel to the HEPlaR drive. The experimental M-drive I was using in my prior design is certainly going to be more efficient.
- I deliberately used Improved versions to get potential=1 to keep fuel costs down for both Maneuver and Operations.
- Intrepid is designed to be spacegoing only and tended by another ship or station.
- Used Apple's Numbers to make this. Not a lot to the spreadsheet though, just a few totals.
- I haven't designed her missile load yet, but mainly they will be type Z sensor missiles to augment her very basic set of sensors.
