And just because you always upgrade (well maybe not in a Traveller Universe).

For your comments. Active and Passive EMS are hugely expensive and have power draws that you can’t sustain with solar panels the size you can put on a 10 ton craft, so I just stuck with the sensors from the Greathead.

Wouldhave Class Lifeboat

Updated 2020-11-06

CraftID:	Lifeboat, Type QL, TL10, Cr 13,154,802
Hull:	9/23, Disp=10, Config=2SL, Armour=40E, Unloaded=116.697 tons, Loaded=168.168 tons
Power:	1/2, Fusion=28 Mw, Duration=100/300 1/1, Solar=0.26 Mw, Duration=unlimited 1/1, Batteries=0.156 Mw, Duration=36 hours
Loco:	1/1, Manoeuvre=2, Agility=0
Comm:	Radio=System x2
Sensors:	Radar=FarOrbit x2, Radar Direction Finder x2, Radio Direction Finder x2, Laser Sensor x2, Light Amplification x2, Radiation Sensor=V Distant, Magnetic Sensor=V Distant, Headlight x2, Passive IR x2, Advanced Image Enhance x2 ActObjScan=Rout, ActObjPin=Rout, PasEngScan=Diff
Off:	Hardpoints=1
Def:	DefDM=+2
Control:	Computer=1/bis x3, Special=HeadsUp display, Environ=basic env, basic ls, extend ls, grav plates, inertial dampers, Airlock
Accom:	Crew=0/1 (Pilot=1), Emergency Lowberth x2
Other:	Cargo=1.07 kliters, Fuel=50.4 kliters ObjSize=Small EmLevel=Faint
Comment:	Construction Time=24 weeks single, 20 weeks multiple Excess Power=0.517 Mw Cost in Quantity=Cr 10,523,841

The Wouldhave class lifeboat is the result of a County Navy design competition to produce a new lifeboat as replacements to the Greathead class, won by Bill Wouldhave an administrative assistant in the Ministry of Agriculture. The County Navy liked the features that took the best bits of the Greathead class and enhanced them while keeping to a known tried and tested boat.

The Wouldhave class is essentially just an upgraded Greathead class with a crystaliorn hull, grav plates, inertial compensators, upgraded solar panels, increased duration with an up to date fusion plant, and the addition of 36 hours of batteries.

Wouldhave essentially kept the sensors, comms, and controls the same due to their minimal power draw. While in extended duration mode the solar panels are able to run all the passive sensors, the coms, computers and the emergency low berth indefinably, and these can all be run from the battery for 36 hours if for some reason the solar panels are interrupted. In addition to running the ship in minimum power draw mode the solar panels can re-charge the batteries in 54 hours.

Minimal operations of the Wouldhave extend its normal operational duration to 2005 days or 5.49 years, as only 4.9% of the poweerplant is needed to run the craft with all sensors active, however in this configuration it’s expected to the able to be set-up to run indefinably from the solar panels.

As there is minimal need to replace the Greatheads that are currently in service and there are surplus Greatheads on the market and in storage boneyards there have only 10 vessels of the Wouldhave class built. They are in service in order to run through shakedown flights and test the integrity of the design against specification. As long as these flights and test are conclusive the Navy will authorise any new lifeboats built to be Wouldhaves and will discontinue the building of the Greatheads.

Best regards,

Ewan

For the fallen in the cause of the free:

"When I go home I will tell of them and say,

For our tomorrow, They gave their today."

My spelling is entirerly due to dyslexia, typos, and poetic license