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| MASS: 24 NPV: 78 Classification: Small Explorer (RS) Crew: 12; 3 Officers, 9 Ratings, plus up to 12 science team/landing party Crew Factor: 1 Hull Integrity: 4 (1/1/1/1) Armor: 1 Main Drive Thrust: 4 (1.8 TW) Drive Auto-Detection Range: 1.79 AU ∆V (Combat): 23.551 km/sec ∆V (Cruise): 471.011 km/sec Thrust Points: 48 (349 tons propellant) Propellant Tanks: 2 Thrust Points per Tank: 24 FTL: Yes (Short Jump - 3.3 parsec range) Auxiliary Systems: 1-MASS Cargo Hold; 1-MASS Passenger Bay; 2-MASS Laboratory; Full Streamlining; 1x Enhanced Sensors Combat Systems: None Weapons: 1x Point Defense Battery |
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| The
Lewis
and Clark Class scout
was designed in 2337 for the United States
Space Exploration Agency (USSEA) to provide them with a class of small
scoutships with adequate laboratory facilities and the ability to land
on planets. The Lewis and Clark
class was intended to be the smaller of two classes of explorers for
the USSEA, with a purpose built cruiser sized explorer modeled after
the Bonaventure
class being constructed by the SDC acting as the mothership and tender
for several Lewis and Clarks.
Congressional infighting over the budget killed the larger explorer
program in 2339 before a single keel was laid down, but not before a
dozen Lewis and Clarks were
commissioned for the USSEA. The space agency attempted to use the
little ships as best they could, but without their larger motherships
for resupply, repairs, and support, they proved to be too small and had
too little endurance for any successful forays into deep uncharted
space. The USSEA sold off all of their Lewis and Clarks to private buyers
by 2357, and resigned themselves to refitting the United States Space
Force’s 50 year old cast-off frigates and cruisers as they had done in
the past. The Lewis and Clark is a very small starship, and like the Novorossiysk free trader, it does not possess any form of spin habitat for the crew, who live and work in free fall when not on the surface of a world. This was not much of a handicap when the exploration crews would only have to spend six to eight weeks away from their proposed mothership explorer, but with the cancellation of the larger design, they simply could not venture more than a jump or two from their bases before the crew was severely weakened by their time in free fall and useless for planetary surface surveys. The Lewis and Clark was packed with extensive laboratory facilities for such a small starship, and its science teams could conduct a host of experiments for all of the exploration sciences, albeit on a very small scale. Buyers for the Lewis and Clark class often took their new vessels to Sagittarius, some removing at least one lab module to expand the cargo hold and propellent tanks, while others kept the design intact as originally built. The Lewis and Clark class is an adequate explorer for Sagittarius given that the frontier starts only ten parsecs from Gateway, and several owners have seen their investments repaid in discovery royalties and exploration bounties offered by the SDC. Ships of the class
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