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BOWHEAD-Class Superfreighter
Tonnage: 350.6 Million Deadweight Tonnage, 300 Million Typical
Length: 5.5 kilometers
Height/Width: 0.5 kilometers
Crew Complement - Full | Minimum:

25 Command (3 shifts) | 10 Command (2 shifts)
50 Engineering | 20 Engineering
30 Support Staff | 10 Support Staff
40 Pilots | 12 Pilots

In-System Propulsion: IVARIVAST Mk. 27 Long Impulse Fusion Engine, 12 bells, 5000 day fuel.
Nearlight Propulsion: Vanden Light Drag Grav. Pulse Drive.
Primary Power Plant: NAVIS Large Volume, Low Intensity Fusion Reactor.
Secondary Power Plant: 25 sq. kilometer SUN-SLIVER solar sail collector + various high efficiency photovoltaics panels.
Armament: 2 Longsight Light Naval-Class short cycle lasers

BOWHEAD-Class freighters are set-up much like her contemporaries of the time with a crew compartment and duel 0.2g contra-rotating centrifugal gravity decks set at the bow of the ship. The aft of the ship contains a temporary break and bunk compartment for the engine crew, the bulbous NAVIS fusion reactor, and the IVARIVAST engine bells, taking up most of the block’s volume. Two freight elevators travel along the spinal column of the ship with 6 cargo segments between the bow and the aft. Between the first cargo segment and the crew compartment lies the thin, circular Vanden Gravity Pulse Drive, used to slowly accelerate the ship to nearlight speeds in interstellar space while saving reaction mass. Each cargo segment is made up of 9 separate cargo bays, each lined top to bottom with standardized containers of all sizes and marked with a gallery of different logos. There are two different cargo bays: Pressurized halls for atmosphere-sensitive cargo and open racks for bulk, stable goods and print stock. Four 1.5 kilometer long omninet/longwave antenna jut out from between the final cargo segment and the engine block held in place with wires that run from the front of the ship, between each antenna, and to the rear of the engine block. Finally, two light short cycle lasers sit on turrets on two towers midway on the ship between cargo segments 3 and 4.