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| MASS: 40 NPV: 201 Classification: Fleet Scout (S) Crew: 10; 3 Officers, 7 Enlisted, plus up to 12 passengers Crew Factor: 2 Hull Integrity: 10 (3/3/2/2) Armor: 2 Main Drive Thrust: 5 (10 TW) Drive Auto-Detection Range: 4.218 AU ∆V (Combat): 47.113 km/sec ∆V (Cruise): 942.264 km/sec Thrust Points: 94 (400 tons propellant) Propellant Tanks: 4 Thrust Points per Tank: 2x 24; 2x 23 FTL: Yes (Short Jump - 3.3 parsec range) Auxiliary Systems: Enhanced Sensors; Full Streamlining; 1-MASS Cargo Bay; 1-MASS Passenger Bay; Level-2 Hull Stealthing Combat Systems: 1x Fire Control Weapons: 1x Point Defense Battery; 1x Class-1 Battery (All Arcs) |
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| The Horizon Class scout has seen
service primarily in the USSF, but has also been constructed under
license to Japan, the Oceanic Federation, and Brazil. It is a
Fleet Scout starship whose primary mission is to gather intelligence on
the disposition of hostile power assets in a system and to safely
return that information to higher command. Since there is no FTL
communication outside of a starship or a Stargate, the Horizon must itself return to the
Jump Point with the data. To this end the primary armament is
essentially defensive. Horizons
also feature a small “Mission Bay” capable of carrying a Special
Operations Team and their equipment for insertion on the surface of
worlds. Horizons in the Sagittarius Arm are mainly SDC mail and courier ships, though there are perhaps a dozen under private or corporate ownership as yachts, light explorers, or even convoy escorts. Their principal liability is their lack of a spin gravity habitat, which limits the amount of time these vessels and their crews may spend away from their bases without damaging their health. They are also expensive to operate, using an antimatter-catalyzed fusion torch for their main propulsion drive to maximize their effective Delta-Vee. Horizons without access to antimatter halve their Delta-Vee values when using their torch drive in conventional fusion mode. Ships of the class
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