Boadicea Merchant Company Ship "Bifrost"

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BMCS Bifrost

The BMCS Bifrost looks like a long cylinder with small bulb at one end and a larger bulb at aft end (consider Discovery One from SO2001) Vessels would be clamped at different equal angles from the central core. {Any artists want to help me out?} In this case the fuel ships are slab configuration, so imagine the top picture with what would look like six fins sticking out at the forward clamping system clamped equal distance around the ship's axis. In the aft docking system, the two Courier/Escorts are clamped on port and starboard and two fuel ships dock dorsal and ventral to the main axis like small fins.

The crew of the two Courier/Escorts reconstitute to form the base crew for the BMCS Bifrost.

BMCS Bifrost

TL15; values in (dTons), (McrImp).

Hull (CA) Hull 77/ Structure 77 2700.0 270.00 (H96/S96, 3375.0 337.50)

Distributed Configuration -135.00 (-168.75)
Total Hull: 2700.0 (3375.0) 168.75

Armor: none

               Engineering Section & Clamps:  500dt+1400dt (1900dt)

Bridge Section Two: Command Module 0017.0 017.00
Computer: Core/4 (Rating 50) (TL10) ----.- 015.00
          Software: 
               Maneuver/0, Library/0, Intellect (R10),  Jump Control/5 (R25), Evade/2 (R15)
               Swap: Auto Repair/1-5 (R10-50)
Clamping systems:  (2ea./400-2000dt ea.) 0040.0 008.00
          (2ea./100-300dt ea.) 0020.0 02.00
One Weapons Bay: (adv.+3, 50dt PA-11; 30dt+1dt Fire Control,  40Mcr.; 6d6+Rad.)
Armory 0002.0 000.50
Jump Drive: type J-6 (J-5) (Jump 6) (7%vol.) 0189.0 378.00
A TL15 tunable, field-affect Jump drive with Stealth Jump Option: +189.00

Maneuver: type M-2 (M-1) (TL12, Thrust 2) (1.25%vol.) (adv. *0.75) 0025.3125 012.65625McrTLC (10.758McrImp)

Power Plant: type P-6 (P-5) (5%vol.)*(adv. *0.75) 0101.25 506.25

Fuel Processor (1440dt/day) 0072.0 003.60

Fuel: {Operations at 0.88815789473684210526315789473684dt per week}*

Tank = 2.4375dt (461hrs Duration)

Additional fuel drawn from fuel module ships.

Total Engineering 0390.0 1,087.608

Total aft section: 500dt, 1,170.108McrImp 

              Forward Section & clamps: 475dt+1000dt (1475dt)
Bridge Section One: Command Module  0017.0 017.00
     Holographic Controls (+2 Init) ----.- 004.25
Electronics: Very Advanced Controls (DM+2) 0005.0 004.00 [3.4McrImp]
Enhanced Signal Processing (TL13) (DM+4) 0002.0 008.00 [7.2McrImp]

Computer: Core/9 Computer (TL15) linking all carried ship’s computers, integrating the current configuration, and providing computing space of 100 (R-100) qv. 130.00McrImp.
          Software:  
               4 iterations of Fire Control/5 on Core/9 CPU = +5DM per Bay weapon.

          Total Bridge, Electronics, & Control: 0024.00 161.85McrImp
Ship's Locker: 0001.0
Weapons: 3ea. Gunnery Bay (adv.+3, 50dt PA-11; 30dt+3dt Fire Control,  40Mcr.; 6d6+Rad.)

          Total Weapons 0093.0 120.00 [96.00McrImp]

Armory: 3ea. 0006.0 001.50

Cargo: 0011.0
Fuel: 0250.0 

Clamping systems: (5ea./100-300dt ea.) 0050.0 010.00

Staterooms: [10SR] 0040.0 020.00

Low Berths: none
Total Forward Section: {475dt,  296.15McrImp}

Total Base Hull: {975dt, 1,376.958McrImp}

Modular portion of Hull

(Usually 8ea. 200dt modules & 1ea. 125dt payload module)

(Fuel = 180dt/module + 250dt onboard: 1,690dt)

Current configuration has the vessel overloaded and the J-drive re-calibrated for J5 performance. The base hull of 975dt adds the modular portion of 7ea. Fuel Module ships (133.11tlCMcr.), & two 500dt Courier/Escorts; The Bifrost is set up for Jump-5 
          Fuel usage as follows: 
Aft tank supplies Power Plant fuel for 461hours duration. 
Jump fuel is distributed as follows:   
          In Aft section (560dt): The two Courier/Escorts provide 200dt (This reserves 100dt for each of the two Courier/Escorts to provide reaction mass allowing them to use full shields & 4G thrust for two hours (or even a quick jump-2) and 10dt for both vessels' pp.) and the two Fuel Module Ships docked provide 360dt.
          In Fore section (1127.5dt): Five Fuel Module Ships  provide 900dt and the on-board tank provides 250dt (27.5dt reserved for Jump fuel, with 9.2 refills for Main Power Plant-4,241.2hrs.) yielding 200dt jump fuel.


Maneuver performance reduced to Thrust = 1.

Load-out is 3,375dt.

The total cost of all ships carried is 2,180.166McrImp

Total Tonnage & Cost 2700.0 (3375.0) {3,557.124McrImp}

Maintenance & Operations Cost (Yearly) 3.72McrImp

Actual value considering all carried ships and salaries 7.00McrImp/yr.

Budget available for maintenance: 302.5599625McrImp

Life Support Cost (monthly) varies

Stores: 62dt., 0.62McrImp (2months) of replacement parts carried aboard the cargo section of the two Courier/Escorts.