V1.00ÿÿ<@BNew Oregon ShuttleSC-1339û TË À¡HFH 4 0 — — —— 3N11294112n.a.˜:  † d0$$ †ÐQ¾Officers (0 minimum)p@=xCrew (0 minimum)p@=xGunners (0 minimum) †1st Class Passengersp2nd Class PassengersPÃSteerage PassengersPÃMarinesp'Marine Battle Armor Troopers/Elementals–@BèvHGrav Deck #1 - 150m DiaP ¡t;¤ Grav Deck #2 - 80m Diad@BèvHGrav Deck #3 - 100m DiaÊš;ä TEnergy Storage Batteriesp€ðú Life Boatsp€ðú Escape Pods°q °q Lot Spare Parts (75.00%)ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿŸIn 2928, billionaire Marcos Ramos talked the fledgling Oregon system-wide government into building a larger run of deep space vehicles than planned. Oregon had planned to build six of the personnel transports to deliver VIP government personnel between planets in the system. Ramos got them to build ten. While this required a fantastic outlay of money, Ramos was riding a curve of aerospace production costs. The first vehicle in a series was usually anywhere from 3 to 10x as expensive as anticipated, while the second and third vehicles tended to meet the listed price tag, while larger quantities of vehicles (built in a relatively brief period) plummeted in price. Ramos had to liquidate some of his investments, but he still retired as a billionaire and managed to tour all of Oregon's habitable planets (and a few uninhabitable places) in his private yacht before dying of heart failure on high gravity Dakota. (Ramos earned some of his investment back by selling three extra deep space transports to the Ishtaran planetary government.) Ramos was a trendsetter: the first owner of a truly private, personal spacecraft. Some Oregon corporations ran shuttles and even older deep space transports, but these were not personal vessels, just privately owned. In the following century, others would imitiate Marcos Ramos. Personal spacecraft ownership became more common as spacecraft production picked up and the Montana-Helena "Web" space elevator made access to space easier and easier. The SC-1339 Shuttle is a typical small shuttle produced by Oregon's late 31st Century aerospace industry. It is a very versatile craft most often found lugging smaller payloads directly into orbit from Ishtar or Dakota, or making short journeys in the space near the inhabitable planets. Despite its versatility, it is not too common. Heavy lifting is usually done by larger spacecraft or the Web; long range transport is usually done by larger spacecraft. That leaves the SC-1339 to cover a lot of niche roles, hence its versatility. The SC-1339 gains its versatility from the replaceable reaction mass tank that can occupy most of its fuselage. The interior of the 40m-long fuselage is designed to hold 6m diameter liquid hydrogen tanks with LH2 capacities of 7.5, 10, 20, 40, and 60 tons. Replacing a tank is a relatively simple operation involving opening the rear engine compartment (which can swing aside), unbolting the tank, and pulling it out on integral rollers. The manufacturing method for the tanks makes it easy to produce custom-sized fuel tanks - it's easy to add or remove another meter-long cylindrical section, and the SC-1339 has the room to handle tanks of up to 65 tons capacity. The 7.5-ton tank is purely spherical (just the standard hemispherical end domes of the tankage), while the others include cylindrical sections between the end caps. Varying the tankage length produces a cargo space of varying length. With the 65-ton tank, the entire fuselage behind the cockpit is filled with fuel tank; any payload has to be in the cramped bow section. Every 5 tons of fuel capacity removed frees 72.5 cubic meters of cargo space (a 6m diameter, 2.5m-long disk). In the most popular surface-to-orbit configurations (with 7.5- or 10-ton fuel tanks), the SC-1339 has more elbow room than it can exploit effectively. Even in a "cattle car" passenger configuration with 308 passengers, there is usually substantial left over volume. The SC-1339 will not win awards for performance. It is the Oregonian equivalent of a smallcraft. Oregon's fusion technology is not up to the task of building fusion rockets with strategic fuel consumption, so the SC-1339 is effectively a "small craft." Its backward technology shows up in the engine (a 100-rated fusion engine that is 6 tons), heavy cockpit (6 tons), and 14 tons of structure. [Per MercSupp2 rules, this primitive aerospace fighter dedicates 20% of its mass to "archaic equipment," listed as "spare parts" for simplicity. This is explained in fluff as a double-weight fusion engine, heavy cockpit, and structural mass.] Its peak acceleration of 2.5Gs is barely enough to efficiently launch from Dakota. It has a fairly robust hull (9 tons of armor) arranged to protect the SC-1339 from debris when it makes fast interplanetary journeys. And that's about it. While laughably primitive to Inner Sphere eyes, the SC-1339 is a huge leap forward in one way: it can cut out one or more spacecraft previously needed to travel between Oregon's planets. The SC-1339 can launch from the ground, use its (potentially) large fuel capacity to reach any habitable Oregonian planet in a week or less, and land. Separate launch vehicles, orbital transfer vehicles/elevators/skyhooks, and deep space vehicles are not needed. It can get to Oregon's recharge stations in about 5 weeks, also when launched directly from the ground. This, to Oregon, is a huge convenience. Plus, it makes the SC-1339 ideal as a VIP transport or personal yacht. As an interplanetary shuttle, the SC-1339 will not win awards for fuel efficiency (limited as it is to tactical fuel consumption), but 40 to 60 tons of fuel can allow the SC-1339 to accelerate for tens of hours. On a minimum-separation flight from Montana to Ishtar or Dakota, the SC-1339 may never cease accelerating except during flip over, meaning it can cruise between Oregon's habitable planets almost as quickly as an Inner Sphere or Clan dropship. Longer distance flights will require coasting, but an SC-1339 with 60 tons of fuel can manage 1 AU per 2.5 days. The SC-1339 can launch horizontally (in an atmosphere), but since it can spend hours or days accelerating in space, the passenger configurations (and nose section decks) are arranged so that the tail of the shuttle is "down." The "cattle car" passenger version thus stacks eleven 2.5m-high decks with 28 seats each in the fuselage; loading on the ground can require some dexterity on the part of the passengers unless the SC-1339 launches on its tail. VARIANTS ôThe listed 55 tons of cargo can be traded out on a one-for-one basis for fuel. The fuel may be reduced to a minimum of 7.5 tons. Because HMAero doesn't like to list cargo for aerospace fighters, the 55 tons of cargo is listed as spare parts. QCargo-only SC-1339s have a nose that splits in half to swing open to the sides. This allows direct unloading and loading through the nose, rather than going through the standard dorsal doors. As a private yacht, the SC-1339 is typically fitted with passenger quarters. Its multi-deck nose section can hold 4 steerage-class quarters.     ' ' ' ' ' (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown)[ none ]