And the supplementary material. --Mal
{{ ships:columbia.jpg?x285 |MCU Columbia at Hephaestus}}
^ Registry Number: | OV-202 |
^ Base Hull: | [[Hephaestus]/VVS OV-200 Space Shuttle Orbiter Upgrade |
^ Drive Type: | ion drives x3 |
^ Drive Rating: | Max velocity 0.055c |
^ Owner of Record: | Soviet Air Force, LLC |
^ Flag of Record: | People's Republic of Freedonia |
^ Home Port: | Kandor City, Luna |
^ Purpose: | Explorer |
^ Launched: | 15 November 2014 |
^ Crew: | K. "Kat" Stewart (Captain)\ P. "Zib" Stewart (Co-Pilot)\ Another 5-10 mission specialists according to mission. |
^ Supplementary Crew: | Columbia (AI, Chief Engineer) |
^ Faction: | [[gazetteer:factions:Soviet Air Force] |
^ Status: | **Active** |
{{ art:columbia-emblem.png?x150 |"semi-official" Project Artemis emblem}}
====== MCU Columbia ======
===== History =====
{{art:vvs:columbia-patch.png?x125 |Columbia crew patch}}
Columbia is the second of the [[OV-200] series Shuttles built by the [[gazetteer:factions:Soviet Air Force] and //[[Hephaestus]// Foundry. The Orbiter was built as a replacement for the original [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shut ... Columbia//], the first operational Orbiter, which was destroyed in a reentry incident in 2003.
The Orbiter was purchased by VVS EXFOR as part of their continuing expansion. The [[gazetteer:companies
tellvia corporation#artemis corporation|Artemis Foundation] had placed an initial bid for the vehicle, but the VVS invoked privileges in the licensing agreement with Hephaestus in order to secure the OV-202 vehicle as their "pick of the litter." The short bidding war (and attendant alpha-fen posturing between factions leaders [[chars:Noah Scott] and [[chars. malaclypse fnord|Mal Fnord]) sparked several memorable editoral cartoons and filks before the two patched things up.
Columbia was activated at //Hephaestus// on 14 November 2014, and had a public rollout along with the new [[gazetteer:factions:united federation of planets|Starfleet] flagship USS //[[Enterprise]// on 15 November. Her shakedown mission was a trans-Neptunian object survey sponsored by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Aero ... itute|KARI].
===== Known Vehicle Quirks =====
* **//Good Morning Starshine II(b)://** The [[OV-200] class quirk; //Columbia// needs a song played at the beginning of each workday. In Columbia's case, she requires a folk or folk-rock song every day or systems performance will degrade by 5% daily to a maximum degredation of 75%.((Luckily, her captain and co-pilot have what might be the largest collection of American and Canadian folk-rock anywhere in the Solar System.))
* **//The Penguin Reborn://** Columbia is very conscious that she was created to continue A Legacy, and the knowledge of this Legacy sometimes drives her to act recklessly, especially in face of new discoveries.
* **//Just Being Careful://** Instead of simply driving down like any other fenship or even the other Orbiters, Columbia //must// spend at least a half hour checking and rechecking systems before attempting to land anywhere there's an atmosphere.
===== Stories =====
//Columbia// has featured in the following stories:
* Bootup
* bar
* baz
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
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{{ ships:columbia.jpg?x285 |MCU Columbia at Hephaestus}}
^ Registry Number: | OV-202 |
^ Base Hull: | [[Hephaestus]/VVS OV-200 Space Shuttle Orbiter Upgrade |
^ Drive Type: | ion drives x3 |
^ Drive Rating: | Max velocity 0.055c |
^ Owner of Record: | Soviet Air Force, LLC |
^ Flag of Record: | People's Republic of Freedonia |
^ Home Port: | Kandor City, Luna |
^ Purpose: | Explorer |
^ Launched: | 15 November 2014 |
^ Crew: | K. "Kat" Stewart (Captain)\ P. "Zib" Stewart (Co-Pilot)\ Another 5-10 mission specialists according to mission. |
^ Supplementary Crew: | Columbia (AI, Chief Engineer) |
^ Faction: | [[gazetteer:factions:Soviet Air Force] |
^ Status: | **Active** |
{{ art:columbia-emblem.png?x150 |"semi-official" Project Artemis emblem}}
====== MCU Columbia ======
===== History =====
{{art:vvs:columbia-patch.png?x125 |Columbia crew patch}}
Columbia is the second of the [[OV-200] series Shuttles built by the [[gazetteer:factions:Soviet Air Force] and //[[Hephaestus]// Foundry. The Orbiter was built as a replacement for the original [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shut ... Columbia//], the first operational Orbiter, which was destroyed in a reentry incident in 2003.
The Orbiter was purchased by VVS EXFOR as part of their continuing expansion. The [[gazetteer:companies
tellvia corporation#artemis corporation|Artemis Foundation] had placed an initial bid for the vehicle, but the VVS invoked privileges in the licensing agreement with Hephaestus in order to secure the OV-202 vehicle as their "pick of the litter." The short bidding war (and attendant alpha-fen posturing between factions leaders [[chars:Noah Scott] and [[chars. malaclypse fnord|Mal Fnord]) sparked several memorable editoral cartoons and filks before the two patched things up.Columbia was activated at //Hephaestus// on 14 November 2014, and had a public rollout along with the new [[gazetteer:factions:united federation of planets|Starfleet] flagship USS //[[Enterprise]// on 15 November. Her shakedown mission was a trans-Neptunian object survey sponsored by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Aero ... itute|KARI].
===== Known Vehicle Quirks =====
* **//Good Morning Starshine II(b)://** The [[OV-200] class quirk; //Columbia// needs a song played at the beginning of each workday. In Columbia's case, she requires a folk or folk-rock song every day or systems performance will degrade by 5% daily to a maximum degredation of 75%.((Luckily, her captain and co-pilot have what might be the largest collection of American and Canadian folk-rock anywhere in the Solar System.))
* **//The Penguin Reborn://** Columbia is very conscious that she was created to continue A Legacy, and the knowledge of this Legacy sometimes drives her to act recklessly, especially in face of new discoveries.
* **//Just Being Careful://** Instead of simply driving down like any other fenship or even the other Orbiters, Columbia //must// spend at least a half hour checking and rechecking systems before attempting to land anywhere there's an atmosphere.
===== Stories =====
//Columbia// has featured in the following stories:
* Bootup
* bar
* baz
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"