Eocin Chiyat
Peacock
- Intent: A new take on bulk freighters, intended for the Open Market.
- Image Source: Space Station/Space Ship Designs by Giby Joseph
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- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Arctrus Astronautical
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Model: BFT-1 Bulk Freighter
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Reinforced Tridurium Hull & Plexalloy Viewports
- Classification: Bulk Freighter
- Length: 928 metres
- Width: 220.3 metres
- Height: 244.6 metres
- Armament: None
- Defences: Low
- Hangar Space: Extreme
- Hangar Allocations: 14 Detachable Cargo Landers (see below) & 2 External Docking Ports for Shuttles
- Length: 90 metres
- Width: 90 metres
- Height: 180 metres
- Armament: None
- Defences: Low
- Manoeuvrability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Low
- Manoeuvrability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive Class: Average | Class 1.2 (Primary) & Class 12 (Backup)
- Crew Complement: 10 Crewmembers or Fully Automated
- Security Complement: 300 S1 & 10 S2 Battle Droids
- The BFT-1 is outfitted with all the features and facilities one would expect from a vessel of its size and purpose, among these:
- Standard Communications Suite - HoloNet & Subspace Transceiver
- Mind-Machine Interface Integration
- Antisepsis Field Generators
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- "Doorstep to Doorstep": The BFT-1 is cheap, reasonably fast, and while the vessel itself cannot safely land on a planet's surface, the fourteen Cargo Landers that ring its hull can separate from the vessel proper and land on/take off from a planet by their own power.
- Defenceless: The BFT-1's shields may be decent, but its skeletal hull is vulnerable even to Starfighter-grade weaponry.
Once, Erakhis' trade routes were rife with piracy and only the most well-armed of freighters dared ply their wares to the rest of the galaxy, but this all changed with the enactment of the Commercial Protection Act - which prescribed the death penalty to "any and all noncitizens guilty of the High Crime of Interstellar Piracy and profiteers thereof" - and the development of the Deimos-class Light Frigate.
Following a long and brutal campaign and the orbital bombardment of several known pirate strongholds, the stage was set for a new generation of freighters, built with a more civilised galaxy in mind - and protected by the gauntleted fist of the Federal Navy.
The poster child of this development, the BFT-1 - humorously called the Big Fething Transport 1 - is barebones in the extreme, composed only of an engine block with an attached engineering section, a control tower, and a superstructure to which the Cargo Landers - effectively giant cuboid containers with engines and repulsors - are attached.
This ingenious design makes delivering to planets and space stations alike a simple feat, with it being entirely possible to send different Cargo Landers to different sites while the BFT-1 stays in orbit - perfect for trading with less civilised worlds, of which there are plenty in the Unknown Regions. Similarly, some highly-developed worlds have gargantuan unloading facilities in which the massive containers can land for the rapid exchange of bulk goods.
