CSA Centennial

Description: Low-endurance and priority light freight hauler.

Background: Centennial is of the same class as the ill-fated CSA Celebration (and, in fact, a draft has been written up to officially rename this class 'Celebration'). The construction plans were purchased from the same architects who designed the CY-80 Franklin courier. It is a simple, straightforward ship, able to reach orbit and modest interplanetary distances on its own, certainly enough to reach a jumpgate. In fact, next to the CY-80 and PBH-100 Glaive, it is one of the smallest ships able to routinely carry out extended interstellar journeys via jumpgate. (As a matter of course, by definition all ships can use jumpgates, though small craft are usually not entirely suited to longer journeys through C-space. There is nothing to prevent them from making the attempt, however; this only means that the CY-80, CY-1150, and Glaive are designed for extended trips.) It is envisioned in the future that the CY-1150 class, with some upgrades, will become the standard light freighter in Cygnus, and production of it and the CY-80 is being looked upon as a possible source of future income.

Features:
Length 27 meters
Draft 7 meters
Beam 24 meters
Mass 8 kilotons (unloaded)
Crew 4
Propulsion 3 plasma recombustion engines, various RCS thrusters
Armament
Defenses
  • Armor: 3cm bonded coherent superense laminates, simple double hull with aerogel filler
  • Passive: tempest/EMP hardening, passive aerogel/antiradiation/kinetic-energy absorbtion materials
  • Defense Grid: 1 automatic close-in laser array
Small Craft
  • None.
Miscellaneous
  • Tractors: 0
  • Supplies: 2 months
  • Fuel: 3 months/constant thrust
  • Life Support: 5 months
  • Motto: None.
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