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name: CTE Spatial Long Range Explorer
mass: 220 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 1 (3)
designated usage: long range explorer, combat support
history:
The Spatial has a long history of being the ship of choice for freelancing explorers. Reliable engines, a thick hull, older but reliable sensors and an impressive weaponry attract many civilian companies and freelancers to purchase those ships. While these models can impress with a terrifying weapons array, professional pilots know of the weakness of ships of that size.

The Spatials engines are capable of producing immense thrust and speed, but its manovering thrusters are comparably weak. Many a pilots have realized too late that many smaller fighters of more modern design can literally fly circles around the Spatial. But the Spatial has capabilities that most fighters of smaller size cannot match.

It is able to sustain independent flight for several systems without the need to refuel. It is also able to act as very successful escorts for larger ships when companies cannot afford military grade gunboats.

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name: ZF-05 Zoner Bomber Prototype
mass: 87 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 1
designated usage: precision strike bomber
history:

the ZF-05 has entered prototype state and is being deployed by Aquillon type carriers. It is not delivered freely but remains part of a strict and secret program.

The ship makes use of a light powerplant without secondary weaponry, relying only on its spinal mounted heavy cannon, similar to the large bore cannons of gunboats. ZF-05 are short range strike craft incapable of extended travel - equipped only with a very small fuel tank and nearly no cargo compartment.

they are lightly armored but very quick. Test pilots have complimented the cockpit - which is identical to that of the Osprey, allowing pilots to switch from ship to ship in an emergency; - also because the ZF-05 has a similar manoverability like the Osprey.

If these ships make it to mass production, it will be one of the smaller shipyards that is likely to produce them.


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name: Acropolis Yacht
mass: 745 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 3 ( up to 30 )
designated usage: leisure cruise
history:

The Acropolis Yacht is build and deployed by the OSC cooperation. Only a handful of those ships have been build and most of them have been sold to wealthy and anonymous buyers.

equipped with the best of the best - the Acropolis features teak interior, gold and platinum plated instruments and bridge equipment, a large swimmingpool under a full glass dome, luxory cabins and one of the most silent engines ever produced.

more to impress than to fight - it is capable of mounting gunboat grade equipment - but is lacking the reactor to make full use of it.
These ships are rarely seen outside the secured lanes or the inner world. As a matter of fact, most of those ships stay moored at luxory resorts spaceports.


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name: Kusari Supertransport
mass: 21500 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 5 (5)
designated usage: supertransport
history:

The Kusari supertransport is a train-like ship that offers companies nearly unmatched capacity. its containers are modular and easily replaced. Bridge and engines are low grade military level, allowing for reliable maintenance and very good protection. compared to other nations supertransports, this ship offers its crew cabins of utmost luxory along with recreation areas and a lot of living space.

One weakness however is the ships poor acceleration and manoverability in critical situations. It is still considered to be the pride of many a Kusari companies all across Sirius.

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name: Bretonian Supertransport
mass: 24000 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 12 (28)
designated usage: Transport
history:

The so called Shetland is a huge transport with cavernous cargo capacity. Opposed to other house supertransports it is much more autonomous due to automatic loading and unloading mechanisms that are part of the ship and enable it to collect containers or even mined ore without the assistence of smaller crafts like lifters.

like other supertransports it is surprisingly low in terms of basic mass due to only really being a reactor with a powerful engine and minimal crew compartments. most of its mass comes from its cargo. Shetland ships are build with rounded armor plates that are more expensive to produce and maintain - but able to reflect a considerable amount of lower yield particle and laser gunfire - while also capable of sustaining considerably heavier blasts from explosive weapons. that means that the Shetland is considered to be much more durable than other ships of its class.

most of the crew is required to allow a three shift rotation. the crew does not have private quarters though - but instead takes shifts in their cabins, too. That has led to complaints by many crews in the past who feel that there should be more luxory aboard.

Later versions of the Shetland give have given up self defense capabilities in order to install more crew compartments and more luxorious interiors - while relying more on BAF patrols for protection.

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name: Bretonian Battletransport
mass: 32000 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 20 (26)
designated usage: transport
history:

The Shire was build to defend itself against fierce pirate attacks. Designed with function over form it is not a beauty to look at but a compact ship with a huge reactor core and a dozen weaponturrets along the ship. Shire crews are known to be tough and they often have a military background.

When the shire was build, it was founded by the military that also required a ship that was able to withstand heavy weaponfire and could even support combat spacecraft if required. for that the Shires bridge is nearly identical with the destroyers bridge - with very similar equipment and capabilities.

Shire ships are very easy to maintain - but only bretonian craftmanship allows for peak efficiency of systems and armor. A lesser known feature of the ship is that is can run on fighter fuel, mox and almost any other combustable material or gas. its engine is build to make use of almost anything, making that ship one of the most versatile ships in the transport class in all sirius.

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name: Rheinland Supertransport
mass: 85000 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 5 (10)
designated usage: Supertransport
history:

The Rheinland Supertransport is one that has entered service earlier than most other house supertransports but has not seen a hugely widespread usage. Surprisingly it is one of the most automated ships of its class despite looking much more low tech from the outside.

capable of operating with only 5 crewmembers and a maximum of 10 it is considered much more efficient than any other supertransport.

arranging the cargo around the engine and reactor, it shows that rheinland considered their crew to be more valuable than their cargo. Pirates who would want to disable the ship ran a high risk destroying the very cargo they were looking for in order to get a clean shot.

Very prominent about the ship is the physical shield it can rise to protect the bridge. that shield has its own low yield shield generator and enables the transport to crush smaller asteroids while plowing through a dense asteroid field. it also causes a shower of debris in its wake greatly endangering pursuing pirate ships. a feature that has saved many a crews in the ships history.

the Colossus is considered to be a state of the art ship for at least 2 more generations and usually is a favourite among rheinland cooperations.

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name: Rheinland Battletransport
mass:248000 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 30 (43)
designated usage: transport / blockade runner
history:

weighing more than many cruisers the rheinland battletransport is mostly made of armor - or so many people joke about it. it is indeed a massive ship for its size. armed like a cruiser with state of the art targetting systems, a reactor and engine that is only a minor variant of the rheinland military gunboat version and generous cargo capacity makes these transports feared among pirates.

usually such ships transport highest value cargo, because the maintenance and operation of them exceeds the costs of the larger colossus.

the crews usually have a military background and do not complain about the very limited space aboard the ship. Ships of that type are rarely used for extended missions but rather short ranged convoys.

it may be noteworthy that ships of that class are not made for living cargo as their pods are not pressurized. additional modules would need to be installed to allow transport of passengers - while VIPs are just given a cabin among the crew.


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name: Salvager
mass: 8600 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 1 (10)
designated usage: salvage / unknown
history:

the salvager is a name for a ship that is not really a shipclass at all. every salvager is different and customized for its crews preferences. what they all have in common is unusually large reactors for a ship of that size, heavier weapons than one may expect, extrenal grappling arms and large cargo.

they are said to be much more sophisticated than they look, but operators usually do not allow non crew members to take a more detail look at them.

some reports were made in the past from recon vessels making deep scans on those ships - but engineers weren t able to make much sense of the arrangement of energy conduits, shielding or other common parts. they are described as "a mess but surprisingly it does not only work, but it works better than it should be".

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name: Order Recon Cruiser "Resheph"
mass: 460000 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 40 (50)
designated usage: recon / ECM / electronic warfare
history:

the Order Recon Cruiser is based on the liberty Spyglass. instead of building a ship of battleship size, order engineers have managed not only to reverse engineer sensors of much greater resolution and penetration but also of less than one third the size.

this cruiser is fast, innately able to cloak for extended periord of time and most importantly able to scan and monitor an entire system.

armed only lightly - crews of recon cruisers are usually ordered to avoid combat rather than seek it - mainly considering that the training of the cruisers crew is more than 5 times as long and expensive as the training of a regular cruiser and also that a single recon cruiser costs twice as much as an older osiris battleship.

despite being mostly defensive - recon cruisers can aid their allies with powerful electronic warfare modules, disrupting enemy targetting and target prediction as well as remotely disabling anti-ship-torpedo targetting. Their EMP field can even disable an entire ship - if the ship is not activly shielded against EMP blasts.

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name: Renzu HF
mass: 22 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 1
designated usage: civilian shuttle
history:

The Renzu HF is a cheap alternative to the CF series or the CT series. materials and design is considered to be solid, maintenance is low. Renzu sells those ships on the open market without discrimination. Experts claim that the Renzu ships are no quality manufacturing like more established brands like the CTE line. It is however undeniable that they pack a lot more features for a significantly lower price.

The Renzu HF offers no sophisticated navigation system or life support. Its targetting guidance system is average and its engine and reactor are standard type civilian core type IV which is often used in residential housing, too. While not the best by a far stretch, it means that replacement parts and mechanics are widespread and these ships can be maintained almost anywhere in Kusari, if not in all Sirius.

If you know how to fix one Renzu type ship, you can fix them all - is an unofficial slogan by Renzu.


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name: Renzu VHF
mass: 45 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 1
designated usage: civilian escort
history:

The Renzu VHF is an extended version of the HF. The modular design adds significant mass to the ship. Two more microreactor cores, large heatsinks and a new thrustersystem allow that ship to compete with other VHF. Its design is kept as simple as possible and like the other Renzu ships it makes use of widely available civilian parts.

Materials used are considered to be of lower quality than other more established designs. The VHF however is so heavy that Renzu corporation considers to refit the ship to a heavier class and abandoning the VHF class consequently.

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name: BHG Battleship "Mako"
mass: tons
necessary crew (usual crew):
designated usage:
history:

Well over a decade ago the BHG approached Liberty shipbuilders about a design for a capital sized vessel. Although Liberty would not publicly admit to assiting a loose organization like the BHG in the manufacture of capital warships - the influences are significant.

The Mako is one of the most modern warships in Sirius. It is build for battle alone, not for comfort or extended mission times. The BHG needed ships that were able to travel efficiently over long distances unleash a maximum of damage on a foe in a minimum of time and get out again.

Comfort was not even a tertiary concern. The Mako only has a third of bunkbeds and crews quarters than required - so the crews are forced to take tripple shifts sleeping. Equipped with sophisticated 2nd grade Liberty capital class targetting and guidance systems the Mako sensors were specificly equipped for operating in high radiation and sensor scattering asteroid fields as well as dense nebula clouds.

Some Mako class ships were refitted with sensors that are tuned to sense spacial disturbances to locate cloaked ships. It it said that smaller fighters might sneak up to second generation Mako Warships, but capital class vessels, no matter if cloaked or not - can not only be detected but also targetted.

The Mako is an underrated warship of the next generation. Liberty willingly allowed the BHG to manufacture many of the first generation of those ships in their extended shipyards - and were given full access to the technical readouts and blueprints in return - which they currently use for their own future developement.


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name: derelict Station husk
mass: 953 million tons
necessary crew (usual crew): derelict
designated usage: Admin Base
history:

Virtually nothing is known about that structure. It was discovered by Zoners when they inhabited Omicron delta but any attempts to gather further data failed. Right now Zoners have declared the immediete space around this structure as not only hostile but also highly dangerous.


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name: GC Blossom 3rd generation
mass: 45 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 1
designated usage: heavy assault fighter
history:

The women of the GC were in desperate need for a new fighter. The aging Blossom became more and more outmanovered and outgunned by virtually everyone. This new generation of fighters uses a twin reactor and a much more powerful engine to thrust a ship 20% heavier and larger.

New materials, new hardwiring and new computers allow that ship to not only close the gap to the latest generation of fighters across Sirius but in fact outperforms most of them. Not anymore cheaply made but a serious piece of military hardware - the new Blossom of the 3rd generation does not need to shy away from direct comparisons to even high end Kusari military hardware.

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Shipdesigns made for DiscoveryGC