The White Star Transport Service

The First Colonial Support Corporation.


The Primary starship of WS-TS is the Olympic Mk1 an 8,000 ton craft. With a main body 315ft long 85ft wide, it has a passenger capacity of 60, an internal cargo allowance of 900 tons and 4 cargo pods of 50 ton each. Accommodations are standard 10x15ft rooms with 2 beds, and washroom. There are 4 recreation areas; Top Forward being a rustic sitting room, Top Aft being the dining area, Middle Forward being a small gym, and The Dome being the observation lounge.

The crew of 14 includes; captain, doctor, 3 man tech team, 3 man flight team, 6 man service team. Work days run on a 3 shift pattern with captain & doctor having no fixed schedule. 

The Olympic has 4 escape pods, on the top deck, each able to hold 10 people. All others must evacuate using the 2 shuttles in the twin hanger bays. The arrangement is not ideal, however it up to coed.

As with all civilian starships a 3/1 hyper space jump schedule is used, meaning that for every 3 days (3LY) travelled in H-space, the ship spends 1 day in normal space to let people recover. Thus travel times may be calculated, for example; an 8 LY trip would be 3/1,3/1,2/arrival, 10 days total.


Travel Times to Colonies;

Proxima Centauri B, 4.2 LY = 5 days

Teegarden's Star, 12.5 LY = 16 days

Tau Ceti, 12 LY = 16 days

Gliese 832, 16 LY = 21 days

Luyten B, 12.2 LY = 16 days

Gliese 667, 24 LY = 32 days

Wolf 1061, 13.8 LY = 18 days


As you can see from the chart, 16 day trips are the norm. The ship then usually spends a week on planet before heading home, and a week at home preparing for its next trip. Crews are rotated every voyage.

WS-TS offers a once per month (EST) trip to each of the colony worlds.

Tickets including 5 tons of cargo. As a colony transport ship it is expected people will be moving with a lot of supplies. Rates are available for cabin only and per extra ton of cargo. Children under age 5 are allowed to stay in their parent's cabin and are not counted towards the ship's 60 passenger capacity.

 

 As of 2036, when the Gallonna class 10,000 ton max sized ship, entered service, WS-TS has moved to adopt it as the main starship of its fleet. However demands for the new craft far exceed production, and so only a few have thus far been acquired. To put it simply, the Gallonna is an extra wide Outreach. Having a middle section extension that allows for 14 more cargo pods to be carried, and the passenger capacity goes up from 60 to 100 people. 


For logistical reference; 

WS-TS moves about 720 people and 13,000 tons of cargo to each colony, each year.

 

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