Lets detail up the boat:
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''No Pressure''
Alright, so here's the deal. Possibly one of the oldest vessels in service in Fenspace, and almost certainly one of the oldest in continuous service. When SL Roin first tasted salt water, World War II was still a thing. Entering the world as the USS Tusk (SS-426), the Balao-class submarine arrived too late to see combat off Japan, underwent modernisation between wars, and spent the Korean War in the Atlantic.
In 1973, she found herself in Taiwan, reneamed ROCS Hai-Pao. She served as a submarine trainer for five decades before finally being disposed of after someone decided to clean off the bird-shit holding the hull together and got a nasty surprise.
After rusting for a year, she was purchased by SL Ciara Shipping Co., supposedly to transport cargo into high-pressure environments, such as deep into gas-giant atmospheres or to Venus surface. She was refitted for spaceflight in the normal way - with most of the aft and forward ends being modified and a new set of stabilisers added to the pressure hull.
The boat has since been chartered by customers as varied as the Artemis Foundation, the Venus Terraforming Project and Rockhounds Inc. She's turned her hand to research in gas giants, or exooceanic surveying, as well as the intended cargo transport.
SL Roin joins USS Stringray and GKSS Severstal as part of the Fenspace submarine fleet and thus far, remains unique in being privately owned, and conventionally powered.
She is reportedly not one of the true Submariners.
==What makes her unique==
Prior to Roin, there really was nothing like her in private hands. A few small craft could go real deep in atmo, and there were always both remote and piloted craft operated by both the VTP and Gas Giant survey teams, but these were on the order of tens of tons. Roin, fully loaded on the surface, has a mass of over 1500 tons.
Of course, going somewhere that dangerous means you need to take a lot of precautions.
Such as 4 seperate engines backed up by two full battery banks, powering two whole independant wave-motion propulsion stacks. Any one of which has been proven to be capable of lifting her from pressure-altitude up to Jupiter orbit.
Which naturally limits her normal cargo capacity and cargo fraction to somewhere between a Space Shuttle and a Saturn V but when you can go to places nobody else can, and gaurantee you can bring things back from here, you can charge a premium for your services.
And boy do they.[ref]Average freight rates from Ultima to Venus between 1200Cr/ton. Freight reights from Venus orbit to Venus surface beng 1200Cr/Kilo[/ref]
==Attributes==
''Under Pressure'': Capable of reaching Venus surface. And leaving again. May well be capable of going farther, but when your first warning of the limit is a 'pop' and the sudden appearrance of St. Peter it tends to discourage experimentation
''Department of Redundancy Department'': 4 Main diesel engines. 2 battery banks. 2 wave motion drives. One engine, or one battery bank, supplying one drive, is more than enough to reach Jupiter orbit from her pressure limit. And probably somewhere beyond.
''Sardines'': This is not a comfortable cruising passenger liner. There're bunks in the forward cargo bay, a small galley and a lot of machinery. Quarters are tight at best, and generally just uncomfortable. On really long trips, there's usually the crew's food, too, along with spare parts and machine tools to run off more spare parts. Sharing bunks is common. Hot-racking also. Even for passengers
''Diesel Boats Forever'': Fuelled by Diesel oil. Unlike Ciara, she'll take good quality diesel fuel from any source. She needs seawater to pressurise her fuel tanks properly.
==Crew Quirks==
''NUB-free zone'': Probably one of the harshest crew training regimes in Fenspace. Anyone onboard needs to be trained up, not just on their normal role, but on at least two others. You've enginemen who can navigate, comms officers who can fire a missile and pilots who can repair electric motors, and everyone can do damage control in a pinch.
''Wilson's Nemesis'': Homeported in SSX-Base. Flies a Jolly Roger with 1 Dagger and one Red Submarine. Closer to the Space Pirates than Ciara was or Macha is.
''The Old Comrades'': The core of her crew came from Ciara, many of them being members of Ciara's original crew. Mostly those that couldn't make the adjustment to Macha.
''Smoke and Dagger'': CLASSIFIED
==Rumours==
It took six months to make SL Roin ''seaworthy'' to sail to meet a heavy lift from Yokohama.
When she finally did arrive, she arrived over two weeks late and with her bow smashed in after hitting something hard and heavy. Her crew reported it as a floating container - flotsam from a freighter.
In the meantime, The PLANSF suffered the loss of a Type-93 submarine in the vicinity of an artificial island. It apparently suffered some form of underwater casualty to uts ballast and electrical system before dropping below collapse depth and imploding, taking its crew and the reason why to the bottom.
Naturally, the usual conspiracy heads have had a field day. Roin's crew have only ever pointed out how ridiculous an idea it would be to even take an 8 decade old submarine that close to a Chinese military base.
Or that it would survive a collision with a modern submarine. [ref]Not that reality ever stopped the Clancyites[/ref]
Mundane powers who would know, are refusing to confirm or deny any knowledge. [ref]Perhaps a tacit acknowledgement that, at least publically, a tragic accident is in ''everyone's'' best interest.[/ref]
==Notes==
Ship's Motto:
''Seeking the Truth of the Legend that Lies Therein''
==Crew==
*Commander: Anne Devlin
*Engineer: Seán McKenna
*Sensors: Ku Yamadera.
*Toaster: Talky.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
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''No Pressure''
Alright, so here's the deal. Possibly one of the oldest vessels in service in Fenspace, and almost certainly one of the oldest in continuous service. When SL Roin first tasted salt water, World War II was still a thing. Entering the world as the USS Tusk (SS-426), the Balao-class submarine arrived too late to see combat off Japan, underwent modernisation between wars, and spent the Korean War in the Atlantic.
In 1973, she found herself in Taiwan, reneamed ROCS Hai-Pao. She served as a submarine trainer for five decades before finally being disposed of after someone decided to clean off the bird-shit holding the hull together and got a nasty surprise.
After rusting for a year, she was purchased by SL Ciara Shipping Co., supposedly to transport cargo into high-pressure environments, such as deep into gas-giant atmospheres or to Venus surface. She was refitted for spaceflight in the normal way - with most of the aft and forward ends being modified and a new set of stabilisers added to the pressure hull.
The boat has since been chartered by customers as varied as the Artemis Foundation, the Venus Terraforming Project and Rockhounds Inc. She's turned her hand to research in gas giants, or exooceanic surveying, as well as the intended cargo transport.
SL Roin joins USS Stringray and GKSS Severstal as part of the Fenspace submarine fleet and thus far, remains unique in being privately owned, and conventionally powered.
She is reportedly not one of the true Submariners.
==What makes her unique==
Prior to Roin, there really was nothing like her in private hands. A few small craft could go real deep in atmo, and there were always both remote and piloted craft operated by both the VTP and Gas Giant survey teams, but these were on the order of tens of tons. Roin, fully loaded on the surface, has a mass of over 1500 tons.
Of course, going somewhere that dangerous means you need to take a lot of precautions.
Such as 4 seperate engines backed up by two full battery banks, powering two whole independant wave-motion propulsion stacks. Any one of which has been proven to be capable of lifting her from pressure-altitude up to Jupiter orbit.
Which naturally limits her normal cargo capacity and cargo fraction to somewhere between a Space Shuttle and a Saturn V but when you can go to places nobody else can, and gaurantee you can bring things back from here, you can charge a premium for your services.
And boy do they.[ref]Average freight rates from Ultima to Venus between 1200Cr/ton. Freight reights from Venus orbit to Venus surface beng 1200Cr/Kilo[/ref]
==Attributes==
''Under Pressure'': Capable of reaching Venus surface. And leaving again. May well be capable of going farther, but when your first warning of the limit is a 'pop' and the sudden appearrance of St. Peter it tends to discourage experimentation
''Department of Redundancy Department'': 4 Main diesel engines. 2 battery banks. 2 wave motion drives. One engine, or one battery bank, supplying one drive, is more than enough to reach Jupiter orbit from her pressure limit. And probably somewhere beyond.
''Sardines'': This is not a comfortable cruising passenger liner. There're bunks in the forward cargo bay, a small galley and a lot of machinery. Quarters are tight at best, and generally just uncomfortable. On really long trips, there's usually the crew's food, too, along with spare parts and machine tools to run off more spare parts. Sharing bunks is common. Hot-racking also. Even for passengers
''Diesel Boats Forever'': Fuelled by Diesel oil. Unlike Ciara, she'll take good quality diesel fuel from any source. She needs seawater to pressurise her fuel tanks properly.
==Crew Quirks==
''NUB-free zone'': Probably one of the harshest crew training regimes in Fenspace. Anyone onboard needs to be trained up, not just on their normal role, but on at least two others. You've enginemen who can navigate, comms officers who can fire a missile and pilots who can repair electric motors, and everyone can do damage control in a pinch.
''Wilson's Nemesis'': Homeported in SSX-Base. Flies a Jolly Roger with 1 Dagger and one Red Submarine. Closer to the Space Pirates than Ciara was or Macha is.
''The Old Comrades'': The core of her crew came from Ciara, many of them being members of Ciara's original crew. Mostly those that couldn't make the adjustment to Macha.
''Smoke and Dagger'': CLASSIFIED
==Rumours==
It took six months to make SL Roin ''seaworthy'' to sail to meet a heavy lift from Yokohama.
When she finally did arrive, she arrived over two weeks late and with her bow smashed in after hitting something hard and heavy. Her crew reported it as a floating container - flotsam from a freighter.
In the meantime, The PLANSF suffered the loss of a Type-93 submarine in the vicinity of an artificial island. It apparently suffered some form of underwater casualty to uts ballast and electrical system before dropping below collapse depth and imploding, taking its crew and the reason why to the bottom.
Naturally, the usual conspiracy heads have had a field day. Roin's crew have only ever pointed out how ridiculous an idea it would be to even take an 8 decade old submarine that close to a Chinese military base.
Or that it would survive a collision with a modern submarine. [ref]Not that reality ever stopped the Clancyites[/ref]
Mundane powers who would know, are refusing to confirm or deny any knowledge. [ref]Perhaps a tacit acknowledgement that, at least publically, a tragic accident is in ''everyone's'' best interest.[/ref]
==Notes==
Ship's Motto:
''Seeking the Truth of the Legend that Lies Therein''
==Crew==
*Commander: Anne Devlin
*Engineer: Seán McKenna
*Sensors: Ku Yamadera.
*Toaster: Talky.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?