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Description #1: (a quick verbal sketch)
- The central most part of the hull is about three times as long as it is high, and twice as high as it is wide. It is roughly oblong, in frontal cross section, and somewhat more ovoid in side cross section. There is no visible cockpit as such, because NO MECHANIST CRAFT HAVE VISIBLE COCKPIT AREAS. Both pilot and co-pilot are ensconced in the centermost portion of the vessel, having been loaded through hatches on the fore and aft undersides. Both the frontal and rearmost parts of the central hull are bedecked with sensory and transmission equipment. On each side of the central hull are slightly dimpled extensions, squarish (though rounded in a concave fashion, hence the dimpling) about as wide again as the central hull region, and slightly extended beyond both its top and bottom. Together with the central hull, these form what would be, if the central hull were cleaved flush at front and back, a cube dimpled on sides and top, not unlike a block of chalk used on four sides to coat the tips of pool/billiards cues, although here, the outside edges are rounded as well. Situated in each of these dimples is a turreted engine fixture. Those on the top are larger than those on the sides, proportionately to the ratio of the width to the height of the "dimpled block". Each engine fixture is consists of two main propulsory engines, opening rearward only, incorporated into a round-edged block of thickness commensurable with the width of the centermost hull region (rounded also at the corners from the top-down sense). Thus, the top and bottom engine blocks have connective regions somewhat less wide than the centermost hull region, and engines of diameter similar to the width of the centermost hull region (a bit on the smaller than side of similar), and the ones on the side have the same proportions, but are smaller. Atop each turreted engine mount is a rocket pod full of small, rapid launch dumb projectiles.
- Embedded in the each side block is a very large spinal mounted gun, running 80% of the length of the craft, and centered lengthwise with respect to the rest of the vessel. The maximum diameter of the central tube describing each gun is ~1/2 the width of the central section of the craft. They are not merely open tubes - any opening depicted should be quite small in comparison to the diameter. Various accessories to the gun emplacements (capacitors, cooling stystems) are mounted above and below the gun, but not to the sides.
- For the sake of scaling details, assume the width of the central section to be ~5 meters, thus making the entire vessel ~30 meters long, and ~30 meters wide at the engines (though only for ~8 meters at the center of the length of the vessel (+-4m), 15 m wide otherwise) and a height of 30 meters at the engines (but only for 12 meters (+-6m from center), 10m high otherwise.
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Performance Statistics
| Interceptor Mk. 273
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| Mass (empty)
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metric tons
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| Length
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meters
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Manufacturing Details
| Interceptor Mk. 273
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| Manufacturing Faction:
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Mechanists
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| Known Major Variants:
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None
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| Tenure of Service:
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| Utilization:
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Mechanists, Confederation Joint Fleet
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Vessels & Installations
