The Dean Files
Type Y Yacht (Civilian Starship)

This version of the Type Y Yacht appears in the shipbuilding catalog of ConTech of Glisten. The most unusual features of the design are the dome airframe hull for rapid transit on planet and provision of a 8x6x2 meter swimming pool. The pool is part of the central atrium around which the five passenger staterooms are arranged. Since the craft itself is capable of high speed travel, no permanent provision for carried smaller craft has been made. The 57kl cargo area could hold a vehicle of up to 3 tons displacement if desired. No fuel scoops or fuel purifier are installed, limiting operations to civilized systems. Cost of fuel was considered to be no object for anyone wealthy enough to own one of these.

Notes: This was designed using the usual design rules, but evaluated using my "1 drive unit=650 tons thrust" method to calculate airspeed. In this particular case, since there are a large number of low density components (fuel and staterooms in particular), this results in a performance substantially better than the rough estimate provided by the Drive=3 rule. The yacht as given in the Imperial Encyclopedia is apparently plagued by a number of typos, as I don't think it has enough fuel or power to support the Jump-4, Maneuver-4 set-up shown. In Classic Traveller, I believe a Yacht was a jump-1, Maneuver-1 vessel, but it seemed to me that could be bettered.

CraftID: Type Y Yacht, TL15, MCr133
Hull: 180/450, Disp=200, Config=6AF, Armor=40G, Loaded=1736t, Unloaded=1589t
Power: 8/16, Fusion=2070MW, Duration=30 days
Loco: 15/30, Maneuver=3, 8/16, Jump=3, NOE=190kph, Cruise=2880kph, Max=3840kph, Agility=3, (ActualThrust=5.99G)
Comm: Radio=System*3, LaserComm=System
Sensors: EMS Active (FarOrbit), EMS Jammer (FarOrbit), EMS Passive (Interstellar), ActObjScan=Rout, ActObjPin=Rout, PassEnScan=Rout
Off: 
Hardpoints=2
           BeamLaser=xx4
          Batteries    1
          Bearing      1
Def: 
DefDM+9
              SandCaster=x04
          Batteries        1
          Bearing          1
Control: Computer Mod5*3, 2*HeadsUpHoloDisplay, 20*HoloLink
Accom: Crew=5 (1 bridge, 1 medic, 1 engineer, 1 steward, 1 gunner), Passengers=5, Staterooms=10, Env=basic env, basic ls, extended ls, grav plates, inertial comp
Other: Fuel=1285.2kl, Cargo=57kl, SwimmingPool=240kl, ObjSize=Average, EmLevel=Avg

Author: R.S.Dean