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Harvester
Class Mining Ship
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Ship Designs
MASS:
92
NPV: 233
Classification: Medium Resource
Collector (MVRM)
Crew: 48; 6 Officers, 44 Ratings
Crew Factor: 2
Hull Integrity: 16 (4/4/4/4)
Armor: 4
Main Drive Thrust: 2 (3.45 TW)
Drive Auto-Detection Range: 2.477 AU
∆V (Combat): 23.851 km/sec
∆V (Cruise): 477.081 km/sec
Thrust Points: 48 (1337 tons
propellant)
Propellant Tanks: 2
Thrust Points per Tank: 24
FTL: Yes (Short Jump - 3.3 parsec
range)
Auxiliary Systems: 6-MASS Hangar
Bay; 24-MASS Cargo Hold; 4-MASS Mineral Refinery; 0.6 G Spin Habitat
for 48
Combat Systems: 1x Fire Control
Weapons: 1x Class-2 Battery (FP/F/FS)
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The
Harvester
specializes in collecting metals, useful minerals, and volatiles from
asteroids. Worlds with gravities greater than 0.1 G or an
atmosphere are unsuitable for a shipborne mining systems and must use
surface bases and either smelt/refine the ore on the surface or shuttle
the ore up to a refinery vessel. The Harvester is equipped to act as an
orbital refinery vessel, but unless a ready supply of cheap hydrogen or
methane is available for propellant to refuel the ore shuttles, the
operating costs of such a venture increase dramatically.
The Harvester will typically
approach an asteroidal body suitable for mining and begin to either
vaporize portions of the rock for collection with a magnetic field
“net” using its Class-2 approximate beamlaser, or else carve off chunks
suitable for manipulation and further processing by its two MVRS
Rockhound collectors. The Harvester
is armored against inevitable impacts caused by the lasing of target
bodies. The ship’s onboard refinery can process up to 4000 tons
of
raw material per hour, and the ship can store 2400 tons of refined
materials.
Life aboard a Harvester is as
spartan as one might expect for such a work oriented vessel, though the
spin habitat is of a larger diameter than typically found on a vessel
of its size to allow for sufficient artificial gravity to maintain the
crew’s health and strength. Harvesters
typically operate singly or in pairs, and may be further paired with a Prospector
class or similar type of resource vessel to utilize its laboratory
facilities for sample assays. When working a large or remote
“dig,” a Harvester may have
several Connestogas
or similar merchant freighters standing by to take off the finished
products from the refineries to allow the mining ship the ability to
stay on station
Ships
of the class
Vessel
Name
|
Hull
Number
|
Laid
Down
|
Commissioned
|
Status
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Ceres Harvester
|
AMC-139
|
8
February 2329
|
5
October 2329
|
Active
with Ceres Metals Corporation
|
Ceres
Motherlode
|
AMC-140
|
24
October 2330
|
12
May 2331
|
Active
with Ceres Metals Corporation |
Ceres
Lodestone
|
AMC-141
|
4
April 2336
|
23
December 2336
|
Active
with Ceres Metals Corporation |
Mercer Placer
|
AMC-173
|
6
May 2353
|
19
September 2353
|
Active with
Mercer Heavy Industries
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Mercer Reforger
|
AMC-213
|
29
August 2351
|
18
May 2352
|
Active
with Mercer Heavy Industries
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Ceres
Collector
|
AMC-267
|
19
February 2328
|
14
June 2328
|
Active
with Ceres Metals Corporation |
Henriksen
|
AMC-276
|
13
February 2355
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20
July 2355
|
Active
with Weyland-Yutani Corporation
|
Ceres Hercules
|
AMC-290
|
9
June 2326
|
13
February 2327
|
Active
with Ceres Metals Corporation |
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