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The Ignis Arcanis
Hybrid Freighter Corvette.
Structure Points: 100
Maximum Tonnage: 110 Tons
Armor Plate: 20 Points at Optimum
Core:
The Ignis Arcanis was purpose built in it's day, and has a custom built core to match. When the crew salvaged the Arcanis from it's abandoned state out in the belts the plate over the door read 'Volcanus'. The plate was left in place.
The core is a molten salt fission reactor with a custom radioelectric generator tree tied to the ship's two massive aluminum heat sink fins.
Unlike most Corvettes, which have horizontal fins like wings, the Arcanis has vertical fins top and bottom, as to aid in loading and unloading of it's large cargo area.
The core was powerful for it's day, but has since become more standard. Producing three power units in offline mode, six in low operation, and up to twelve when running hot.
The ship also has an AI core. The AI that was aboard the ship was damaged beyond repair, and has since been replaced with a new one. Pele. She is quick tempered and easily irritated, as her name suggest, but otherwise stable and quite capable.
Apart from the AI Core and it's two subcores, the ship also contains 2 primary processor cores, and six secondary cores.
Hull:
The ship is bulky, and larger than most corvettes, but built of light weight materials. So it's overall tonnage is comparable to any modern corvette. The ship has a large cargo space with access ports on the port and starboard, allowing for the ship to offload cargo without having to turn on it's side like most corvettes would have to.
As it is required to make long haul trips from the inner to outer solar system, the ship boasts a substantial hydrotank that produces multiple species of fish and vegetables in it's special built hydroponic tanks.
Each crew member has their own small room, as opposed to the bunks more common in corvettes built for shorter trips in the black.
Hardpoint Mounts:
The ship sports two forward hard mounts and three hard mounts on either side.
Propulsion
The ship has a powerful chemical rocket system as well as an ionic drive housed in the fins. These systems combined with it's stiffened hull bracings and special chairs in the Tub allow it to accelerate much harder and longer than most ships of it's class, allowing it to move from the inner system to the outer planets and belts faster than most corvettes. This comes at the cost of raw maneuverability.
