[RFC] Eagle Class

[Warringer]

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|shipname     = Eagle class
|shipimage    =
|caption      =
|hull         = Custom Hull based on the Eagle Transport of ''Space: 1999''
|length       = 32 m
|width        =
|height       =
|mass         = 350 tons
|drivetype    = reactionless drives
|driverating  = 0.05c
|weapons      = varies
|manufacturer = [[Whistler Services]
|owner        = varies
|flag         = varies
|faction      = varies
|registry     = varies
|datelaunched = varies
|purpose      = Multi Purpose space craft
|crew         = 2+
|supcrew      =
|auxvehicles  =
|status       = '''Active'''
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In late 2017 Whistler surprised Fenspace when they requested landing permission for ''Eagle One'' and ''Eagle Two'' at Moonbase Alpha, showing of their latest product to a not completely surprised public (they had called the press to Moonbase Alpha for a bigger story). Handing over the two Eagles to the public of Moonbase Alpha, they announced that they would produce these craft for everyone who would want one or two of them.
Developed completely in secret the Eagle was the answer to a problem that plagued Fenspace since the end of the Boskone War. The lack of an standartized intermediate sized space craft, as most vessels build during the War were either fighters or large scale craft. While Whistler and others offered container craft some people wished for something more ruggerized than a container.
Remembering ''Space: 1999'' it was quickly decided that the Eagle would be perfect for this job, especially since if could be outfitted with custom pods, which could be build from ISO containers. This in turn allowed the Eagle to be used as small scale transport using normal containers.
Whistler also decided to try and mass produce the Eagle by using as much hard tech as possible and only waving the essentials. As such the Eagle class has only a low number of quirks and can be serviced without any handwavium handy.
==Class Quirks:==
*''Every landing you can walk away from:'' From time to time an Eagle will have a crashlanding, but in 99% of these crashlanding the only thing hurt will be the pride of the pilots and the Eagle can launch again after resetting the engine controls.
==Trivia:==
*''Eagle One'' of Moonbase Alpha has the worst history of crashlandings of all Eagles. It crashes about every two weeks and the crew has painted an image of Launchpad McQuack on the cockpit.
{{Space Ships}}

[Proginoskes]

The Whistler Services Eagle class has to be one of at least four a bunch of classes competing for the name. "Eagle" is a name with huge historical and cultural weight to it; consider the phrase "The Eagle has landed". Most of the others would be exploration-oriented landing craft, though, so there won't be as much confusion involving the WS Eagle class as with the others.
I'm not sure what the problem is with container craft, though. Well-made ISO containers are pretty indestructible even before being 'waved; it's hard to imagine anything using a similar amount of materials being more rugged. (I kid, but only a bit. I can understand the attraction of not flying around in a big ruddy-brown steel box; even if I think aesthetics and ergonomics are the only reasons, they're pretty good ones!)

[Warringer]

We can always rename it to 'Adler', seeing that Whistler is essentially a German company...

And see the containers as something of cheap compact cars of fenspace. Then this craft would be along the lines of a middleclass sedan.

[robkelk]

If they are renamed to "Adler," then the dozen that StellviaCorp buys for transporting produce from Wonderland (and refitted ISO containers for the Nikaido Foundation's disaster-relief efforts) will be re-renamed back to "Eagle"...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Warringer]

There is also tue fact that These craft are highly modular with their Container bays. A good argument to buy them.

[Warringer]

So, anyone against putting this into the wiki?

[HRogge]

I would say it looks fine...

[Black Aeronaut]

I especially like the Launchpad McQuack bit.

[robkelk]

Have a size-comparison image:



(It looks like the Bolitho is becoming the baseline to which everything else is being compared... possibly because it's obvious from the good view of the pilot just how big a Bolitho is.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Warringer]

Interesting that you selected the Eagle/Adler. :p