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Rickover Class: Tactical Logistics Carrier
The Rickover tactical logistics carrier is an automated materiel delivery system. These ships are meant to function with minimal or no crew, freeing ships of the line from the mundane work of logistical support. More than just a freighter, the Rickover is designed to be a military asset. 12 of her docking ports are powered and articulated to accept the same turrets installed on federation warships. This allowed the Rickover to deliver even valuable supplies without a destroyer escort.
The class is named for Hyman G Rickover, a Terran wet-navy admiral of the 20th century.
“Bitter experience in war has taught the maxim that the art of war is the art of the logistically feasible.” -- Admiral Hyman Rickover, USN
Although commissioned in 2282, the class proved its worth beyond all doubt in 2293 in the aftermath of the Praxis incident. After the Khitomer accords, aid shipments were dispatched from the federation to the Klingon empire. Although the Orion syndicates took an interest, it was ironically the Klingons themselves who endangered this support through factional raids. The Rickovers proved a perfect answer.
Dissertations have been written on the endless ways that Humans infuriate Klingons. The Rickover is a prime example. A loaded freighter is a valuable resource, and a tempting prize. A ship with 12 independent, proximity-targeting, fusion powered heavy phase cannons represents a significant threat. All of this sounds like a glorious kill, except the Rickover is typically unmanned. There is no honor in defeating a machine. It neither learns to fear you nor sings your victory in Stovocore. And the possibility of losing ones ship in an engagement with a machine... A captain would never hear the end of it. So, Klingon raiders mostly pretended the Rickovers didn't exist, neglecting even to mention their passage in ships logs. A coinciding 5% increase in the price of inebriants sector-wide may have been an indication of their deeper opinions on the subject.
Rickovers were also utilized heavily in colonization and exploration projects. Rather than sending hundreds of engineers to construct colonial facilities on site, the heavy cargo capability of the Rickovers allowed entire colonial structures to be mass produced and lowered whole into foundations installed by a hand-full of engineers at the colony site
There are five versions of the ship so far, each with the same basic construction, but different docked loads for a different task. I will probably add to the list:
More details and images: http://gaeasson-shipwright.blogspot.com/2014/03/rickover-class-tactical-logistics.html
The Rickover tactical logistics carrier is an automated materiel delivery system. These ships are meant to function with minimal or no crew, freeing ships of the line from the mundane work of logistical support. More than just a freighter, the Rickover is designed to be a military asset. 12 of her docking ports are powered and articulated to accept the same turrets installed on federation warships. This allowed the Rickover to deliver even valuable supplies without a destroyer escort.The class is named for Hyman G Rickover, a Terran wet-navy admiral of the 20th century.
“Bitter experience in war has taught the maxim that the art of war is the art of the logistically feasible.” -- Admiral Hyman Rickover, USN
Although commissioned in 2282, the class proved its worth beyond all doubt in 2293 in the aftermath of the Praxis incident. After the Khitomer accords, aid shipments were dispatched from the federation to the Klingon empire. Although the Orion syndicates took an interest, it was ironically the Klingons themselves who endangered this support through factional raids. The Rickovers proved a perfect answer.
Dissertations have been written on the endless ways that Humans infuriate Klingons. The Rickover is a prime example. A loaded freighter is a valuable resource, and a tempting prize. A ship with 12 independent, proximity-targeting, fusion powered heavy phase cannons represents a significant threat. All of this sounds like a glorious kill, except the Rickover is typically unmanned. There is no honor in defeating a machine. It neither learns to fear you nor sings your victory in Stovocore. And the possibility of losing ones ship in an engagement with a machine... A captain would never hear the end of it. So, Klingon raiders mostly pretended the Rickovers didn't exist, neglecting even to mention their passage in ships logs. A coinciding 5% increase in the price of inebriants sector-wide may have been an indication of their deeper opinions on the subject.
Rickovers were also utilized heavily in colonization and exploration projects. Rather than sending hundreds of engineers to construct colonial facilities on site, the heavy cargo capability of the Rickovers allowed entire colonial structures to be mass produced and lowered whole into foundations installed by a hand-full of engineers at the colony site
There are five versions of the ship so far, each with the same basic construction, but different docked loads for a different task. I will probably add to the list:
More details and images: http://gaeasson-shipwright.blogspot.com/2014/03/rickover-class-tactical-logistics.html
