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Civilian and Luxury starships
The civilian fleet of luxury ships and commercial vehicles are prolific throughout the Federation and beyond. Many members of the Federation have their civilian fleets and military fleets organized differently but many ex-military officers and crew join the civilian fleet as crewmen of the civilian fleet. All known races have civilian ships even the Klingons.
The Romulan Empire civilian fleet is highly regulated with the idea of keeping the population in check. The Romulan Tal Shiar agents are kept aboard these ships.
Types
Civilian Fleets are arranged in the groups of the following and many more variations of the fleets.
Civilian Private Yachts—size two or three capable carrying small groups of passengers and cargo. Many families and such have this ships for private use. The TOS era’s Aurora-class civilian yacht is a version of this ship.
Cargo Carriers—this is a small size 2 cargo ships usually with a civilian owner and has a small crew and very few passenger on board the ship.
Commercial Transports—much like Civilian Yachts these carry passengers and cargo for a price. A private citizen and hires out his crew to whoever has money to do so usually own these.
Large capacity Cargo ships—these are size four through six and even larger by aliens in the Gamma and Delta quadrant. Many species have large cargo carriers such as the Desara-Class Merchant Vessel, the Klingon Huc’ta-class Merchant vessel and the similar looking Cardassian Salgar-class Military transport, as well as the Malgar-class Modular Transport.
Luxury Liners—these pleasure vessels are equipped with the latest in luxury. These ships are size eight and up to the size ten capable of carrying thousands of passengers and crew.
Entertainment vessels—these civilian fleets carry a ship capable of staging sporting events in the large lounges and theatrical rooms. Holodecks and Holosuites mounted in the ship are used as rent a pleasure room.
Brothel ships—size two or three size ships or even larger where a companion can be bought for the night. A Ferengi business man has several of these vessels providing the workers, such as ore minnors with a distraction for a fee. Naturally the Ferengi have exstensive tradeing merchendice on board.
Transport ships—these are short range transport usually with in the systems carrying a few hundred passengers to and from civilian stations and planetary colonies. (These are like airliners of the star trek eras carrying a small amount of cargo and passengers.)
Civilian authority—each colony world and world has its own orbital police force. These vessels are size four or five light warships. Several of these vessels are available at any given time in the orbit of any planet or star systems. These often are the older retired vessels such as an old Saladin-class frigate/destroyers.
Civilian Science Vessels—many civilian companies keep a fleet of civilian science vessels even though the Federation will likely step up to aid in any and all legitimate scientific research. Some smaller corporations prefer to do illegal and legal research without outsiders watching them.
Recreational vessel—used as a sail vessel with large solar canvases. The Bajoran Sail ship is an example. There are several species that use the sail ships as sporting race vehicle pushed by the solar winds.
Another version of recreational vessels is a small shuttlecraft with high powered impulse engines capable of fast ultra sensitive maneuverability used as a high speed race vehicle. One or two crewmember vessels no armaments or extra cargo or equipment used for long duration travel. Fueled for short duration of hours not days or week.
Small Medium Range Trade Ship—mostly all are size two with the capacity of two or three crew and passengers with a small amount of cargo. The Ferengi have a small shuttle craft that is this class.
Civilian Outer Hull and Primary Hull Skeletal Structure
SU’s: Outer and Inner hulls cost 3 x size
Power: None
The Civilian starships such as a cruise liner dose not need Combat rated hulls as they do not generally go to battle with warships or are exposed to the rigorous dangers of exploration.
Yet as a civilian ship exceeding warp speed the ship begins to take hull damage after an hour of exceeding rated PIS for maximum warp speed of one SU of damage.
Resistance
SU’s: same as standard Spacedock.
Most civilian ships do not have resistance higher than four to six. Yet the average is four per hull
Crew and passengers
Generally the civilian ships have smaller crews and larger passengers. The passenger out number the crew four to one on smaller vessels size’s three and four, five to one on vessels size’s five, seven and eight. On ships larger than size 9 the average is six to one or greater.
Luxury liners are capable of handling up to twenty time the passengers and crew.
Airline seating
SU’s Cost: 1 SU’s per 70 persons
Power: Zero power
Passenger shuttles or short distance transports generally used on size two and three ships. This is airline seating for passengers.
Luxury Recreations Facilities
Su’s Cost: +2 to standard Recreation Facilities cost
Power cost: + 3 Power
Luxury recreation facility includes additional Holosuites, several bar lounges, theaters, museums and even a casino on board the vessel. In the TOS Era starships Holosuites would be Luxury spas.
Botanical Gardens (Luxury)
Su’s Cost: like Cargo holds
Power Cost: Equal to number of SU’s size of garden
The gardens are installed on size four starships or larger and can not exceed over one third of the ships full volume. Each garden is of one SU’s equal to that of a cargo bay size of 33,000 cubic meters (length of 66 meters x width of 50 meters x height of 10 meters). The garden’s ceiling and wall will have windows to allow the view of the stars and allow natural light into the garden.
These gardens cost power for both artificial lighting and environmental life support. In addition to being a recreation for the ships passenger it has trees and gardens for fresh food production. Each garden size of SU has at least four crew assigned to it beyond the standard crew.
Merchentile Facility
Use the merchentile Facility chart form the Cardassian sourcebook page 121. Works much the same way as the Space station merchentile facility. Only the largest and most luxurious of the civilian Luxury Liner has a rating of ten for the merchentile facility and will not be selling weapons.
War Propulsion and Power systems
Civilian vessels have a lower warp speed than that of starships and have less time for the maximum warp speeds. Luxury vessels are build for luxury and not for speed.
These vessels have plenty of power to power the luxury systems.
Tactical Systems
Defensive weapons are low rated phaser banks for the next generation.
Luxury vessels have no torpedo launchers or missile weapons of any kind.
Defensive Systems
Most Civilian vessels have shields in the lower range and are generally not raised except for that of a testing or in the case of a ion or plasma storm.
Autodestruct systems are not installed in civilian starships as civilians do not blow themselves up as a matter of principle.
Hanger bays
Luxury liners have large shuttle bays capable of handling size three and smaller ships and shuttles. Most ships carry cargo of some sort from one place or another and large shuttle bays help in loading cargo.
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