Operation Great Justice Troop Carrier Class Ships
(Created by Rob Kelk)
This is a general class of ships used for troop transport during Operation Great Justice. No more than seventeen were ever deployed at any given time; while far more than that were built during the Boskone Wars, they took heavy losses in various missions. Only five survived the storming of Boskone Prime at the end of Operation Great Justice.
Each of the ships in this series is capable of carrying up to three 12-person squads of marines with full personal gear.
Known Ships in this Class:
* SC Joan of Arc (OGJ-26, based out of Port Phobos)
* SC Granuaile (OGJ-101, based out of 6565 Reiji)
Registry Number: OGJ-####
Base Hull: J4500 University Coach
Drive Type: Speed
Drive Rating: Max velocity 0.05c
Owner of Record: Operation Great Justice
Flag of Record: varies
Home Port: varies
Purpose: Troop Carrier
Launched: after SOS-Con, 2012
Crew: driver, up to 36 passengers
Faction: Great Justice
Status: varies
Class-Standard Modifications to Base Hull
* The hulls and engines are usually handwaved with the intention of making them more durable and less prone to damage or malfunction, as well as the usual modifications to turn a bus into a spacecraft.
* The wheelchair lift has been removed - that door is now a rapid-deployment hatch.
* Twenty of the passenger seats have been removed from the middle of the bus to make room for more cargo, and to allow access to the original cargo area from within the bus.
* The headlights are routinely upgraded to the brightest possible, and equipped with strobe circuits; this allows them to be used as disorienting "dazzle" weapons in atmosphere.
Quirks
* Now get out there and give 110%! Perhaps as a pseudo-memory of their original purpose of sports-team transportation, these ships need "pep talks" before every mission.
Individual ships also have their own quirks. For instance, the Joan of Arc (based out of Port Phobos) needs a Catholic chaplain to be on board to work at all, while the Granuaile (based out of 6565 Reiji) slows by 10% if nobody of Irish descent is aboard.
(Edit: got the general type wrong - "SC", not "SS")
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(Created by Rob Kelk)
This is a general class of ships used for troop transport during Operation Great Justice. No more than seventeen were ever deployed at any given time; while far more than that were built during the Boskone Wars, they took heavy losses in various missions. Only five survived the storming of Boskone Prime at the end of Operation Great Justice.
Each of the ships in this series is capable of carrying up to three 12-person squads of marines with full personal gear.
Known Ships in this Class:
* SC Joan of Arc (OGJ-26, based out of Port Phobos)
* SC Granuaile (OGJ-101, based out of 6565 Reiji)
Registry Number: OGJ-####
Base Hull: J4500 University Coach
Drive Type: Speed
Drive Rating: Max velocity 0.05c
Owner of Record: Operation Great Justice
Flag of Record: varies
Home Port: varies
Purpose: Troop Carrier
Launched: after SOS-Con, 2012
Crew: driver, up to 36 passengers
Faction: Great Justice
Status: varies
Class-Standard Modifications to Base Hull
* The hulls and engines are usually handwaved with the intention of making them more durable and less prone to damage or malfunction, as well as the usual modifications to turn a bus into a spacecraft.
* The wheelchair lift has been removed - that door is now a rapid-deployment hatch.
* Twenty of the passenger seats have been removed from the middle of the bus to make room for more cargo, and to allow access to the original cargo area from within the bus.
* The headlights are routinely upgraded to the brightest possible, and equipped with strobe circuits; this allows them to be used as disorienting "dazzle" weapons in atmosphere.
Quirks
* Now get out there and give 110%! Perhaps as a pseudo-memory of their original purpose of sports-team transportation, these ships need "pep talks" before every mission.
Individual ships also have their own quirks. For instance, the Joan of Arc (based out of Port Phobos) needs a Catholic chaplain to be on board to work at all, while the Granuaile (based out of 6565 Reiji) slows by 10% if nobody of Irish descent is aboard.
(Edit: got the general type wrong - "SC", not "SS")
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012