SPACECRAFT  "A" - "M"

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    Angulan:
    The largest Battleship known to exist, ru-mors hold this ambiguous vessel is still in one piece.  Hearsay speaks of it so large (over 30 km), armed and armored (over   1 000 weapons), that nothing could attack it.  The Common-wealth feared this Authority ship (which could not dock any-where so it was outfitted with processing plants so it could get its own fuel... nowadays, there are large enough bases) would overwhelm them.  A choppy rumor held that a virus was in-troduced, killing the lot of the crew, leaving the ship ready for the taking by the other side...but vanished before it would be retrieved.  The official report said it was destroyed by a scrammed reactor breach when refueling near the hostile gas planet, Chaos.
COST: 50 345 560 000
AVAILABILITY: Ultra Rare
CLASSIFICATION: BattleShip / Carrier
DESCRIPTION:  Authority Flagship
MANUFACTURER:  TMA
MASS: 20 045 000
CREW:    MINIMUM:  120
                PASSENGERS:  20 000
                FREEZE TUBES:  15 000
VELOCITY:  1.1
RANGE:  Unlimited
CARGO CAPACITY:  3 500 000
DEFENSE RATING:  100 m Segments--4.  Total craft--15
HARDPOINTS:  600
ARMAMENT: 100 Assault Lasers, 200 Heavy Lasers on Turrets, 16 Heavy Particle Accelerator, 100 Laserlances,
    20 Medium Rocket Launchers (any payload), 11 Heavy Rocket Launchers, 70 Railcannons
FIREPOWERS: Any Combination up to 500 up to 10 times per target.  100 attacks total.
COMPONENTS:  Manufacturing Facilities, Gravity Drives, Fuel Processing Plant (Can refuel on its own),
PAYLOAD BAY:  Up to 2000 craft.

Beetles:
    More current, efficient, "clean" mining craft.
 COST:  $11 409 201
AVAILABILITY:  Uncommon
CLASSIFICATION:  Mining
DESCRIPTION:  Mining Craft
MANUFACTURER:  R. Frost Engineering
MASS: 55 500 (Not including Ore)
CREW:    MINIMUM:  8
                PASSENGERS:  2
                FREEZE TUBES:  12
VELOCITY:  0.8
RANGE:  1 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  51 000
                    (1 000 000 in ore)
DEFENSE RATING:   1
HARDPOINTS:  0
COMPONENTS:  Grav Pods.
PAYLOAD BAY:   None

    K34 Bee:
    The Bee is a modest little automated craft designed for Survey work.  No longer made, these were pro-genitors of the Burners.  Bees were very expensive to produce because the had very advanced scanning equipment, ten times more advanced than the average Burner.  Even more powerful than small Trawler Nets.  Burners were chosen, however, be-cause there can be built in fleets and overall cost less, but if Bees were scanning systems rather than Burners, there would be a lot less false alarms.
COST:  $569 214
AVAILABILITY:  Uncommon
CLASSIFICATION:  Miscellaneous (Small)
DESCRIPTION:  Small Service Craft
MANUFACTURER:  Trans-Galactic Spacelines
MASS: 45
CREW: 0
VELOCITY:  1.8
RANGE:  10 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  0
DEFENSE RATING: 1
HARDPOINTS:  0
COMPONENTS:  Advanced Sensors with
                            triple standard range.
PAYLOAD BAY:   0

        Behemoth:
    The largest Freighter still being con-structed, the Behemoth is the largest craft ever to roll off a regular assembly line.  They are only built on mars, the only place with a large enough shipyard.  R.F.E. controls all the facets of their construction and sale.  Both TMA and Fastcore have purchased many for military transports because of their ease of installing weapons.
COST:  131 185 912
AVAILABILITY:  Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Freighter / Terminal
DESCRIPTION:  High Capacity Freighter
MANUFACTURER:  R. Frost Engineering
MASS: 584 111
CREW:    MINIMUM:  32
                PASSENGERS:  1000
                FREEZE TUBES:  50
VELOCITY:  1.1
RANGE:  5 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  522 000
DEFENSE RATING:  Every 100 m segment--1, Total Craft--8
HARDPOINTS:  15
ARMAMENT:  Assorted Laser, 10 Heavy Nuclear Missile Launchers
FIREPOWERS: 250, 250, 100, 100
COMPONENTS: Gravity Pods
PAYLOAD BAY:  30 Various craft.

    Birdnest:
    The Birdnest is currently the only known type of Military mobile Base that can actually land.  It's fifty odd spindly legs move out and land very gently on virtually any surface.  The base is disk-shaped with a large communications and command cone on top.  Don't get the wrong idea...it looks nothing like flying saucer, There are too many projections and the base is not that smooth.  It is also very large.  The cone is actually a semi-sphere with a very large communications array on top.  There is also several large docking bays as well as two large vertical wing-like structures that house the enormous grav genera-tors (unique to this craft only).  There are currently ten in use.  Three crashed landing on planets and two more are missing.
COST:  $295 388 957
AVAILABILITY:  Very Rare
CLASSIFICATION: Territory
DESCRIPTION:  Low Orbit / Surface Base
MANUFACTURER:  Consolidated Aerospace
MASS: 350 000
CREW:    MINIMUM:  50
                PASSENGERS:  2 000
                FREEZE TUBES:  2 000
VELOCITY:  0.9
RANGE:  500
CARGO CAPACITY:  188 000
DEFENSE RATING:  100 meter Segments--2, Total Craft - 10
HARDPOINTS:  100
ARMAMENT:  70 Laserlances on Turrets, 30 Heavy Rocket Launchers
FIREPOWERS:  120 up to 10 times.  Missiles are operated separately.
COMPONENTS:  Gravity Drive, Landing Gear
PAYLOAD BAY:  Up to 50 craft

      Burners:
    Cheap, micro-probes built in the thousands during and after the war that are sent out in nets to scan for information on systems and areas of space.  If this turns up information on a possible craft, a lead is made and sent back to the corporation that sent it out.  Some firms own Burners as well as many independent groups.  The Authority and Bloc now send their own out but unlike the Syndicates, are Public Domain.  A burner's construction cost is less than $150 for each one.  It utilizes the cheapest mineral recourses... re-courses not being used for any other machine constructed.  The assembly line is very efficient.
COST: $500
AVAILABILITY: Common
CLASSIFICATION:  Miscellaneous (Small)
DESCRIPTION:  Scanner Probe
MANUFACTURER:  Avery Astronautics
MASS: 0.5
CREW:  0
VELOCITY: 4
RANGE: 15 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  0
DEFENSE RATING:  1
HARDPOINTS:  0
COMPONENTS:  Advanced Scanners, double range.

      Calypso "Cargo Skiff"  Mule Variant:
    Con-solidated Aerospace's long rumored Mule design, the Ca-lypso supposedly is a combination of technologies between the Outrigger and the Crab.  Although small, the Cargo Skiff has the potential of being heavy competition to an in-dustry almost totally run by Badger Engineering.  It comes standard with 3 Sealed Cargo Grav Pods.  Specifically made additions made by ConAer cost less that standard SCGPs only work for the Cargo Skiff.  These can be con-nected in sequence.  A prototype model is in use with all known modifications which include 350 SCGPs that trail behind.
COST: $6 500 000
AVAILABILITY:  Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Mule / Freighter
DESCRIPTION:  General Purpose Mule
MANUFACTURER:  ConAer
MASS: 5 550
CREW:    MINIMUM:  3
                PASSENGERS: 15
                FREEZE TUBES:  18
VELOCITY:  1.8
RANGE:  5000
CARGO CAPACITY:  50
DEFENSE RATING:  2
HARDPOINTS: 3
ARMAMENT: None Equipped.
COMPONENTS:   Sealed Cargo Grav
                Pods, Class 2 Streamlining.
PAYLOAD BAY:  None

      Cerebrums Class Destroyer:
    Carrying the most powerful energy weapon ever made, the NA 3000 OPA (Particle Accelerator), the CCD was a mainstream vessel 300 years ago…now, no one knows how such a massive weapon was made.

    Colonial:
    The largest ships ever constructed with the exception of the Conestoga, these had the capability of shift-ing large pockets of civilization across the universe. These were often escorted by two Conestogas.  These craft were the ones that expanded civilization.  They planted their seeds and were recalled, where they were refitted, and sent out again.  Currently, only three exist.
COST:  $718 909 696
AVAILABILITY:  Very Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Freighter
DESCRIPTION:  Colonizer Ship
MANUFACTURER:  Badger Engineering
MASS:  226 267, 1 00 500 fully loaded
CREW:    MINIMUM:  40
                PASSENGERS:  15 000
                FREEZE TUBES:  10 000
VELOCITY:  0.9
RANGE:  15 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  512 277
DEFENSE RATING:  Per 100 m section-1,
                                        Total-4
HARDPOINTS:  0
COMPONENTS:  Grav Drive
PAYLOAD BAY:  25 Service Craft.

      Conestoga:
    Super High-Capacity freighter.  The largest craft moving great distances, these 25 kilometer awe- inspiring ships have the capability of moving all equipment of a colony planet to a new destination.  Since the prototype built 300 years ago, they have gotten bigger and faster. There are currently six in operation.  Four more were lost during the war.  The prototype has not been found either.
COST:  $584 486 127
AVAILABILITY: Very Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Freighter / Carrier
DESCRIPTION:  Super Freighter
MANUFACTURER:  Avery Astronautics
MASS:  90 959 109
CREW:    MINIMUM:  26
                PASSENGERS:  100
                FREEZE TUBES:  126
VELOCITY:  1.2
RANGE:  30 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  3 004 939
DEFENSE RATING:  Per 100 m  Section - 1, Total - 5
HARDPOINTS:  0
COMPONENTS:  Grav Drive
PAYLOAD BAY:  40 Service Craft, 18 000 Mektecks

    Cutlass:
    A streamlined successor to the Stingray--a larger, faster, more powerful local defense interceptor which no one knows how to make anymore.
COST:  $1 098 725
AVAILABILITY:  Uncommon
CLASSIFICATION:  Fighter / Assault
DESCRIPTION:  Local Defense Interceptor
MANUFACTURER:  Unknown
MASS:  590
CREW:    MINIMUM:  3
                PASSENGERS:  2
                FREEZE TUBES:  5
VELOCITY:  2.8
RANGE:  50
CARGO CAPACITY:  5
DEFENSE RATING:  2
HARDPOINTS:  5
ARMAMENT:  Three Railcannons, Two Medium Missile Launchers
FIREPOWERS:  180
COMPONENTS:  Class 2 Streamlined, Landing Gear
PAYLOAD BAY:  None

        Dart:  A cheap, mass produced, single-man craft used commonly through the spaceports around the Territory. No one really knows who built it. Everyone constructs it.
 COST:  $10 500
AVAILABILITY:  Common
CLASSIFICATION:  Miscellaneous (Small)
DESCRIPTION:  Personnel Craft
MANUFACTURER:  Various
MASS:  5
CREW:    MINIMUM:  1
                PASSENGERS: 2
                FREEZE TUBES:  0
VELOCITY: 1
RANGE:  0 (Planetary)
CARGO CAPACITY:  1
DEFENSE RATING: 1
HARDPOINTS:  0

    Deadalus:
    The first interstellar craft has yet to be recovered.  A valuable antique...and good mineral source.  It had huge inefficient Fusion drives so it has enormous tanks, many of which are said to be still full.
COST:  $5 448 280
AVAILABILITY:  Ultra Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Probe
DESCRIPTION:  Exploratory Pioneer Vessel
MANUFACTURER:  Consolidated Aerospace
MASS: 8 500
CREW: 0
VELOCITY:  0.2
RANGE: 5
CARGO CAPACITY: 2
DEFENSE RATING:  1
HARDPOINTS: 0

      "Demeter" Cargo Platform:
    This is an Avery cargo platform.  It is LITERALLY a very big Mule.  In fact, Avery had planned to release it as the ultimate Rigger vehicle...it is, but it is also the most expensive mule in history.  The Demeter Platform does no look like a normal ship, but instead is a massive Grav Platform (a large, flat Grav Pod) with four large towers sprouting from it that in-clude the main drive, the maneuvering thrusters, and the crew quarters.  Its cargo space is slightly smaller than a Cobb, but it can tow more than 20 Outriggers (unmodi-fied).  The ships is also over a half a kilometer long and over 300 meters high.  Only very rich Riggers (3 minimum crew with the capacity of 50 people) can afford the expen-sive craft.  Most are owned and operated by Avery because the cost is a tad too steep for most Riggers.
COST:  $11 546 000
AVAILABILITY: Uncommon
CLASSIFICATION: Freighter
DESCRIPTION: Mule Cargo Platform
MANUFACTURER:  Avery Astronautics
MASS:  110 560
CREW:    MINIMUM:  6
                PASSENGERS: 20
                FREEZE TUBES: 26
VELOCITY:  0.9
RANGE: 5 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  60 000
DEFENSE RATING: 2
HARDPOINTS: 3
ARMAMENT: Various
COMPONENTS: Grav Pods

    DSRV:
    This is the shortened term for "Deep Space Rescue Vehicle" that is a high powered vessel designed to dock with another ship for emergency procedures.  It is ma-neuverable and has a generic docking collar so it will mate with Authority, Bloc, just about anybody's craft.  These things are everywhere in the Territory.  It can be anywhere in less than 72 hours.
COST:  $2 500 500
AVAILABILITY: Common
CLASSIFICATION:  Carrier
DESCRIPTION:  Deep Space Rescue Vessel
MANUFACTURER:  Trans Galactic Spacelines
MASS:   500
CREW:    MINIMUM:  3
                PASSENGERS:  20
                FREEZE TUBES:  23
VELOCITY:  1.5
RANGE:  50
CARGO CAPACITY:  5
DEFENSE RATING: 1
HARDPOINTS:  0
COMPONENTS: Grav Pods

        Experimental:
        These are craft based on an existing design but modified with prototype hardware.  No modifica-tions are released and their existence is classified so none will be mentioned here.  Currently, only three of these ships have been declassified.  The ship design known only as Zed--001 is the design used for testing of new weapons and new engines.  A Grav Drive was tested in a Zed as was the first NA-117 Particle Accelerator.  The last experimental was the not in-tended to be known.  This was the Eldridge which tested a new radar absorbing technology.

    Fragmentation Mine:
    Not really a spacecraft, more like a floating bomb.  It can track a target and home in on tar-gets.  It is an extremely powerful explosive that can gut most military frigates
COST:  $10 000
AVAILABILITY:  Uncommon
CLASSIFICATION:   Fighter
DESCRIPTION:  Floating Bomb
MANUFACTURER:  Various
MASS:  5
CREW: 0
VELOCITY:  0.5
RANGE: None (Planetary)
DEFENSE RATING:  1
HARDPOINTS: 1
ARMAMENT:  Nuclear Fusion Missile built in.
FIREPOWERS:  500

    Goulton:
    The only known Commonwealth destroyer recorded.   It has never been seen.
COST:  Theorized around $560 000 000
AVAILABILITY:  Ultra Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Battleship
DESCRIPTION:  Commonwealth Flagship
MANUFACTURER:  Unknown
MASS: Between 800 000 and 1 000 000
CREW: 20 - 1000
VELOCITY:  1.2
RANGE:  5 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  Unknown
DEFENSE RATING:  Unknown
HARDPOINTS:   At least 150
ARMAMENT:  Unknown
COMPONENTS:  Grav Drive

    Gourmet:
    These are horribly ugly, large, inefficient strip mining spacecraft that were also very effective at doing their jobs.  No longer built, rumors disclose at least ten of these ships roam the Territory.
COST:  $6 530 950
AVAILABILITY:  Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Mining
DESCRIPTION:  Illegal Strip-Miner
MANUFACTURER:  No longer built.
MASS:  116 909 (616 909 with ore)
CREW:    MINIMUM:  30
                PASSENGERS:  50
                FREEZE TUBES:  80
VELOCITY: 0.5
RANGE:  1 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  100 000 (+500 000 ore)
DEFENSE RATING:  2
HARDPOINTS:  1
ARMAMENT:  None Standard
COMPONENTS:  Landing Gear

    Gunship:
    A common Authority craft embossed with weapons but with a limited range. Dubbed "nuclear kites," these craft would usually run dry during combat and had to be tugged back (thus the nickname).  Some were never reported and were left flying into deep space, out of fuel, and intact...to be found later.
COST:  6 557 290
AVAILABILITY: Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Assault
DESCRIPTION:  Local Defense Ship
MANUFACTURER:  ConAer
MASS:  12 327
CREW:    MINIMUM:  42
                PASSENGERS:  10
                FREEZE TUBES:  52
VELOCITY:  3
RANGE:  5
CARGO CAPACITY:  5000
DEFENSE RATING:  3
HARDPOINTS:  6
ARMAMENT:  3 Heavy Lasers, 2 Heavy Rocket Launchers, One Heavy Particle Accelerator
FIREPOWERS:  40, 40, 40, 150
COMPONENTS:  Landing Gear

    “Hunchback”  Long-Range Freighter:
    The longest ranged Freighter around and the only vessel with the equal of the Colonial and Conestoga.  It has a gigantic sphere in the nose that absorbs gases to extend its range.
COST: 10 000 000
AVAILABILITY:  Uncommon
CLASSIFICATION:  Freighter
DESCRIPTION:  Long Range Freighter
MANUFACTURER:  Trans-Galactic Spaceline
MASS:  650 000
CREW:    MINIMUM:  3
                PASSENGERS: 10
                FREEZE TUBES:  13
VELOCITY:  1.2
RANGE:  29 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  560 000
DEFENSE RATING:  1
HARDPOINTS: 0

   Interstellar Princess:
    The most common Spaceliner found in the Universe
COST:  $18 485 633
AVAILABILITY: Uncommon
CLASSIFICATION:  Spaceliner
DESCRIPTION:  Spaceliner
MANUFACTURER:  Trans-Galactic Spacelines
MASS:  16 107
CREW:    MINIMUM:  82
                PASSENGERS:  600
                FREEZE TUBES:  700
VELOCITY:  2.2
RANGE:  5 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  100
DEFENSE RATING:  1
HARDPOINTS: 0
COMPONENTS:  Grav Pods
PAYLOAD BAY:  2 Shuttle Craft

    Kobyashi:
    This was once an experimental craft that was mass produced during the war.  Now nonexistent, people have tried to find some of these rare craft in deep space.  The plans for their advanced and ultra-fast engines were lost and no one has been able to duplicate them.
COST:  $1 872 532
AVAILABILITY:  Very Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Survey / Fighter
DESCRIPTION:  High Speed Interceptor
MANUFACTURER:  R. Frost Engineering
MASS:  232
CREW:    MINIMUM:  1
                PASSENGERS:  3
                FREEZE TUBES:  4
VELOCITY:  4.1
RANGE:  10 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  2
DEFENSE RATING:  2
HARDPOINTS:  2
ARMAMENT:  2 Heavy Lasers
FIREPOWERS:  80

    Maco:
    A sphere with engines, these craft, no longer constructed were the mainstream freighters until the Whale came out.
COST:   $20 002 000
AVAILABILITY:  Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Freighter
DESCRIPTION:  Long Range Freighter
MANUFACTURER:  Unknown
MASS:  159 000
CREW:    MINIMUM:  5
                PASSENGERS:  10
                FREEZE TUBES:  15
VELOCITY:  0.5
RANGE:  3 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  100 000
DEFENSE RATING:  1
HARDPOINTS:  0

    Manta:
    Weapon transports with multi-purpose hard-points. The only known ones intact are used by the Death's Head Pirate group.  The Control Compartment was a self contained module capable of sustaining life for about 200 days when released in an emergency.
COST:  $7 082 623
AVAILABILITY:  Very Rare
CLASSIFICATION: Assault / Carrier
DESCRIPTION:  Mid-Range
                                Weapon's Carrier
MANUFACTURER:  TMA
MASS:  10 180
CREW:    MINIMUM:  4
                PASSENGERS:  2
                FREEZE TUBES:  6
VELOCITY:  2.8
RANGE:  3 000
CARGO CAPACITY:  1000
DEFENSE RATING:  6
HARDPOINTS:  10
ARMAMENT:  Various
COMPONENTS:  Grav Pod, Class 1 Streamlining.

    Martian Princess:
    This is the luxurious, 200 hun-dred year old Spaceliner sought after by collectors.  No craft today has ever duplicated its comfort...not even 1st class on today's spaceliners level up.  She is the "Zeppelin of the Space Age"  A replica of her lounge is at Mars War Museum and at Sydney.  It flew across the Cosmos for nearly a hundred years...then suddenly, it wasn't.  It is assumes that the true fate of the Princess was known at one point and recorded...but that information became lost over time.
COST:  $5 279 249
AVAILABILITY:  Ultra Rare
CLASSIFICATION:  Spaceliner
DESCRIPTION:  Spaceliner
MANUFACTURER:  Trans-Galactic Spacelines
MASS:  14 147
CREW:    MINIMUM:  20
                PASSENGERS:  150
                FREEZE TUBES:  20
VELOCITY:  2.5
RANGE:  0 (Planetary)
CARGO CAPACITY:  50
DEFENSE RATING:  1
HARDPOINTS:  0

    Minnow:
    A long range interceptor scoutship con-structed by the TMA and the only design they make open to the general public, sans weapons of course.  A Reliable and clean 2-person craft.
COST:   $492 725
AVAILABILITY:  Common
CLASSIFICATION: Fighter / Survey
DESCRIPTION:  Long Range Interceptor Scoutship
MANUFACTURER:  TMA
MASS:  231
CREW:    MINIMUM:  2
                PASSENGERS:  2
                FREEZE TUBES:  2
VELOCITY:  2.2
RANGE:  1000
CARGO CAPACITY:  1
DEFENSE RATING: 2
HARDPOINTS:  3
ARMAMENT:  Various Laserguns
FIREPOWERS:  315

    MOBAS:
    The MOBile Armored Strongpoint, unlike the Birdnest, DOES look a lot like a flying saucer (or more like two bowls stuck together.  Originally outfitted as part of a vast network of perimeter defenses around Tower and the Bloc, the MOBAS's current job is far less sinister.  MOBAS were the first to be outfitted with the new Grav Drives alone (no primary propulsion), making it the Bloc proudest achievement, and after the war were the first to be recalled and refitted. Those advanced Grav Drives were removed (dropping the value considerably) and became civilian residences (hold-ing several families) because of the so many people left home-less after the war.  They were naturally durable structures, and plenty are still in private ownership as second homes dotted around the planets of all systems.  A few were retrofitted with smaller, common, and less efficient (and cheaper) grav pods for use as mobile accommodations for commercial operations such as mining and agriculture.  Four or five can still be seen floating in deep space far out on the perimeter, where they are employed as automated data-collection stations or navigation beacons.  There are no recorded accounts of any fitted with their original powerful "Grav Drives" and no one is clear what happened to the ones removed after the war although most assumes they were placed in the large freighters, colony ships, and Battleships roaming the Territory.
COST:  $4 735 340
AVAILABILITY:  Uncommon (Grave Drive equipped models are Ultra Rare)
CLASSIFICATION:  Defense / Terminal
DESCRIPTION:  Military Defense Vehicle MOBile Armored Strongpoint
MANUFACTURER:  Fastcore
MASS:  1948
CREW:    MINIMUM:  20
                PASSENGERS:  10
                FREEZE TUBES:  30
VELOCITY:  0.8
RANGE:  500
CARGO CAPACITY:  5
DEFENSE RATING:  3
HARDPOINTS:  15
ARMAMENT:  Various Laser Weapons.  Usually 15 Assault Lasers or Heavy Particle Accelerators
FIREPOWERS:  15 attacks of 250 or 150 each/
COMPONENTS:  Grav Pod or Grav Drive.