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KOLIER-CLASS DRONE BARGE
AFFILIATION
Free use.
MANUFACTURER
Consolidated Hulls Co.
CLASS
Drone barge.
ROLE
Automated bulk cargo hauler.
COMPOSITION
Durasteel.
DIMENSIONS
Length - 100 meters.
CREW
1 integrated pilot droid brain.
PASSENGER CAPACITY
N/A.
CARGO CAPACITY
600 standard tons.
HANGAR CAPACITY
N/A.
CONSUMABLES
8 standard months (fuel & power).
4 standard days (ambient atmosphere for 1 standard-sized humanoid).
SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY
A Kolier-class drone barge with stock specifications can reach 30 MGLT maximum acceleration, and has sluggish maneuvering characteristics.
ARMAMENT
N/A.
EQUIPMENT
- Class 10 hyperdrive.
- Extendable docking tube.
DESCRIPTION
The Kolier-class drone barges are a class of automated bulk freighter built by the Consolidated Hulls Corporation of Corellia. Based on the recycled hull-form of an unrealized corvette project, the Kolier was the design which likely saved CHC from bankruptcy over the course of the Hundred-Year Darkness, taking up otherwise slack production capacity after the bottom fell out of the warship market, and selling well enough to turn a modest profit.Consolidated Hulls Co. was and is primarily a subcontractor to more specialized shipyards. Their role is to build empty hull-forms, supplying them for fitting out by their customers. The story goes that one day, a major customer of CHC's went belly-up in the middle of a particularly large commission, leaving Consolidated with a yard full of 75% complete stock and no buyer in sight.
CHC initially tried to sell the unclaimed hulls to other shipyards, but could find no buyers for military equipment. At a loss as to what to do, management began looking into unconventional ways to shift the product, and hit upon an idea.
Up to that point, CHC had little to no experience building complete vessels. However, their yards theoretically had the capacity to complete the empty hulls' fitting out, and so the company decided to finish the production run as improvised bulk freighters; as commercial vessels, it was expected that they would be easier to shift than the corvettes they had been intended to be. In order to save time and resources - and to avoid a lengthy, expensive certification process required by the Bureau of Ships and Services - it was decided that crew facilities would be left out, and that the ships would be finished as drone barges.
The first 200 Kolier-class barges - built directly on the existing corvette hulls from the dropped contract - were completed in record time, and put up for sale with armor plating still in place and crudely welded-over viewports. Despite their crude finish and the slumping Galactic shipping market, they were quickly sold to a number of fleet operators, who reported good value for money. The popularity of the initial 200 vessels prompted CHC to begin serial production using purpose-built hulls, and although these had no trace of their military origins aside from their profile, they still sold well. Their success allowed CHC to survive the worst of the Hundred-Year Darkness, and the type continues to be manufactured to this day.
Kolier-class barges are a common sight across the Galaxy, primarily along well established hyperlanes. They tend to operate along routes where they are unlikely to encounter unforeseen hazards, which can confuse their simplistic droid brains. Aside from basic piloting systems, these brains are similar in design and cognitive sophistication to those in binary loadlifters; They can accept course instructions, calculate simple hyperspace jumps, perform basic navigation in realspace, land or dock at a pre-designated point and run diagnostics on their systems and cargo. Like most drones, they are vulnerable to navigational errors, mechanical failures and outright piracy.
The Kolier itself has a slender, dart-like profile, betraying its warship origins, but is almost entirely hollow, with cavernous cargo bays allowing it to carry up to 600 tons of freight. The ship has no crew accommodations of any sort, carrying no life support system and having only cramped engineering spaces designed primarily for small maintenance droids. This being said, desperate beings occasionally stow away on drone barges; the ship's interior can carry enough ambient atmosphere to sustain a standard-sized humanoid for up to 4 standard days, although this is by no means intended or encouraged. Given that the barge can remain in space for up to 8 months, it is common for stowaways on such vessels not to survive their journeys, at least not without careful planning or ingenuity.
The Kolier has no shields and no weapons, although its hull is stoutly constructed and capable of taking some punishment. It has a top acceleration of 30 MGLT, plus a class 10 hyperdrive. Realspace maneuvering is very sluggish.
Though it has corvette DNA in its lines and structure, beings seeking to convert a Kolier into another class of vessel will find their task too difficult to be worth the effort. Although the ship's pilot brain is fairly simplistic, it is by necessity heavily integrated into the ship's systems, making it troublesome to remove or even upgrade. Similarly, and with an eye toward beings attempting to restore a Kolier to its warship roots, the ship's power-plant is relatively simple to service and repair, but nearly impossible to remove or replace without drastic measures. It is also not powerful enough to drive shields or weapons, or even more powerful engines, the thrust nozzles of which are themselves integrated into the ship's hull.
LEGALITY
Kolier-class ships are relatively simple to acquire and license in most systems, owing to their cargo hauling specialization, lack of any armaments and lack of a crew.
INTENT
To create a common class of drone barge for use as a plot device or background garnish in role-plays. These vessels could also be an alternative method for characters without access to other forms of transportation to travel the Galaxy, albeit illegally, and in a very uncomfortable and dangerous manner.
ADVANCED TECH
Yes. Though the Kolier-class drone barge is common across the Galaxy, and thus relatively simple to buy, steal or otherwise acquire, their large size and inability to carry regular passengers largely preclude it from individual ownership. These vessels are usually found in the service of fleet operators, such as large shipping firms and occasionally governments, who tend to consider them as almost disposable assets.
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Free use.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]MANUFACTURER[/gfont][/COLOR]
Consolidated Hulls Co.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]CLASS[/gfont][/COLOR]
[url=http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Drone_barge]Drone barge[/url].
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]ROLE[/gfont][/COLOR]
Automated bulk cargo hauler.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]COMPOSITION[/gfont][/COLOR]
[abbr="hull & superstructure"][url=http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Durasteel]Durasteel[/url][/abbr].
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]DIMENSIONS[/gfont][/COLOR]
Length - 100 meters.
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[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]CREW[/gfont][/COLOR]
1 integrated [url=http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot_droid]pilot droid[/url] brain.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]PASSENGER CAPACITY[/gfont][/COLOR]
N/A.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]CARGO CAPACITY[/gfont][/COLOR]
600 standard tons.
[color=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]HANGAR CAPACITY[/gfont][/color]
N/A.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]CONSUMABLES [/gfont][/COLOR]
8 standard months (fuel & power).
4 standard days (ambient atmosphere for 1 standard-sized humanoid).
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY[/gfont][/COLOR]
A [i]Kolier[/i]-class drone barge with stock specifications can reach 30 MGLT maximum acceleration, and has sluggish maneuvering characteristics.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]ARMAMENT[/gfont][/COLOR]
N/A.
[COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]EQUIPMENT[/gfont][/COLOR]
[LIST]
[*]Class 10 hyperdrive.
[*]Extendable docking tube.
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[CENTER][COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]DESCRIPTION[/gfont][/COLOR][/CENTER]
The Kolier-class drone barges are a class of automated bulk freighter built by the Consolidated Hulls Corporation of Corellia. Based on the recycled hull-form of an unrealized corvette project, the Kolier was the design which likely saved CHC from bankruptcy over the course of the Hundred-Year Darkness, taking up otherwise slack production capacity after the bottom fell out of the warship market, and selling well enough to turn a modest profit.
Consolidated Hulls Co. was and is primarily a subcontractor to more specialized shipyards. Their role is to build empty hull-forms, supplying them for fitting out by their customers. The story goes that one day, a major customer of CHC's went belly-up in the middle of a particularly large commission, leaving Consolidated with a yard full of 75% complete stock and no buyer in sight.
CHC initially tried to sell the unclaimed hulls to other shipyards, but could find no buyers for military equipment. At a loss as to what to do, management began looking into unconventional ways to shift the product, and hit upon an idea.
Up to that point, CHC had little to no experience building complete vessels. However, their yards theoretically had the capacity to complete the empty hulls' fitting out, and so the company decided to finish the production run as improvised bulk freighters; as commercial vessels, it was expected that they would be easier to shift than the corvettes they had been intended to be. In order to save time and resources - and to avoid a lengthy, expensive certification process required by the Bureau of Ships and Services - it was decided that crew facilities would be left out, and that the ships would be finished as drone barges.
The first 200 [i]Kolier[/i]-class barges - built directly on the existing corvette hulls from the dropped contract - were completed in record time, and put up for sale with armor plating still in place and crudely welded-over viewports. Despite their crude finish and the slumping Galactic shipping market, they were quickly sold to a number of fleet operators, who reported good value for money. The popularity of the initial 200 vessels prompted CHC to begin serial production using purpose-built hulls, and although these had no trace of their military origins aside from their profile, they still sold well. Their success allowed CHC to survive the worst of the Hundred-Year Darkness, and the type continues to be manufactured to this day.
[i]Kolier[/i]-class barges are a common sight across the Galaxy, primarily along well established hyperlanes. They tend to operate along routes where they are unlikely to encounter unforeseen hazards, which can confuse their simplistic droid brains. Aside from basic piloting systems, these brains are similar in design and cognitive sophistication to those in [url=http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Binary_loadlifter]binary loadlifters[/url]; They can accept course instructions, calculate simple hyperspace jumps, perform basic navigation in realspace, land or dock at a pre-designated point and run diagnostics on their systems and cargo. Like most drones, they are vulnerable to navigational errors, mechanical failures and outright piracy.
The [i]Kolier[/i] itself has a slender, dart-like profile, betraying its warship origins, but is almost entirely hollow, with cavernous cargo bays allowing it to carry up to 600 tons of freight. The ship has no crew accommodations of any sort, carrying no life support system and having only cramped engineering spaces designed primarily for small maintenance droids. This being said, desperate beings occasionally stow away on drone barges; the ship's interior can carry enough ambient atmosphere to sustain a standard-sized humanoid for up to 4 standard days, although this is by no means intended or encouraged. Given that the barge can remain in space for up to 8 months, it is common for stowaways on such vessels not to survive their journeys, at least not without careful planning or ingenuity.
The [i]Kolier[/i] has no shields and no weapons, although its hull is stoutly constructed and capable of taking some punishment. It has a top acceleration of 30 MGLT, plus a class 10 hyperdrive. Realspace maneuvering is very sluggish.
Though it has corvette DNA in its lines and structure, beings seeking to convert a [i]Kolier[/i] into another class of vessel will find their task too difficult to be worth the effort. Although the ship's pilot brain is fairly simplistic, it is by necessity heavily integrated into the ship's systems, making it troublesome to remove or even upgrade. Similarly, and with an eye toward beings attempting to restore a [i]Kolier[/i] to its warship roots, the ship's power-plant is relatively simple to service and repair, but nearly impossible to remove or replace without drastic measures. It is also not powerful enough to drive shields or weapons, or even more powerful engines, the thrust nozzles of which are themselves integrated into the ship's hull.
[CENTER][COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]LEGALITY[/gfont][/COLOR][/CENTER]
Kolier-class ships are relatively simple to acquire and license in most systems, owing to their cargo hauling specialization, lack of any armaments and lack of a crew.
[CENTER][COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]INTENT[/gfont][/COLOR][/CENTER]
To create a common class of drone barge for use as a plot device or background garnish in role-plays. These vessels could also be an alternative method for characters without access to other forms of transportation to travel the Galaxy, albeit illegally, and in a very uncomfortable and dangerous manner.
[CENTER][COLOR=#ffffff][gfont=Plaster]ADVANCED TECH[/gfont][/COLOR][/CENTER]
Yes. Though the [i]Kolier[/i]-class drone barge is common across the Galaxy, and thus relatively simple to buy, steal or otherwise acquire, their large size and inability to carry regular passengers largely preclude it from individual ownership. These vessels are usually found in the service of fleet operators, such as large shipping firms and occasionally governments, who tend to consider them as almost disposable assets.
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