The Clarifier-Class are the pride of the Vizierate fleet. These modern, highly advanced ships have capacity to support a staff of 300 researchers, analysts and project team members in furthering the Vizierate’s portfolio of responsibilities and enhancing the Dominion. This is in addition to the ships’ operational crew. The Clarifier-Class’s range and speed make it suitable for assignment to a wide variety of project profiles. An assignment aboard a Clarifier-Class vessel is a prestigious, pleasant and productive one, with all crew and project teams having individual cabin assignments and their own private facilities. The vessels are equipped with comprehensive laboratories and work areas. Project teams and crews are encouraged to use the ship’s recreational facilities to keep minds and bodies sharp in furtherance of our work program.
Clarifier Class Research Ship (TL 9)
Hull: SM+12, Unstreamlined
Mass: ~100,000 ton
Approx. Length: 200 m
HT: 14
dDR: 70/70/70
Crew: 36
Occupancy: 480SV/790ASV
Load: 11,127 ton (12,265 tonne)
Hnd/SR: -2/5
Move: 1/c
FTL Speed Factor: 2 (1 Light Year per 10 hours)
FTL Range: Jump 4 (29.13 light years)
Air Speed: 300 mph (483 km/h)
Time to Go 0.7 AU: 228 Tasks
Refuel Cost: Not applicable
Gravity: Double Plates [!]
Automation: High
Emergency Ejection: No
Hardened Armour: No
Ram Rockets: No
Cost: $18,970,500,000
Front [1] Armour, Advanced Metallic Laminate
[2] Cargo Hold (Cargo Tons 5000)
[3-5] Habitat
[6] Hangar Bay (Capacity 3000)
[Core] Control Room
Centre [1] Armour, Advanced Metallic Laminate
[2-5!] FTL-2 Hyperspace Drive
[6-6] Sensor Array, Multipurpose
Rear [1] Armour, Advanced Metallic Laminate
[2-3!] Reactionless Drive, Hyper-Mass Thruster
[4-6, Core] Power Plant, Fusion II (Endurance 50 years)
Habitat Options:
- 12x Luxury Cabin, Total Life Support;
- 383x Cabin, Total Life Support;
- 1x Clinic;
- 1x Lab, Major Science!;
- 1x Op Centre, Large;
- 5x Cell;
- 10x Briefing Room;
- 1x Minifac, Fabricator;
- 600x Steerage Cargo;
- 30x Establishment;
The basic layout of the Illuminator is that the habitat is at the forward or ‘top’ end of the ship in a series of rings stacked around a giant empty cylinder that is the space allocated for the hangar bay and cargo hold. Project team accommodations are at the very top, labs and offices below that, amenities below that and crew accommodations below that. Aft of the habitat decks are the engineering decks that make up approximately two-thirds of the ship. The main airlock is amidships near the FTL drives.
