Properties
- starship
- ftl-capable
- crew-6
- passengers-8
- atmospheric-capable
- bonded-vessel-eligible
- hull-points-60
A small armed starship — about forty meters keel to nose, lean amidships, with a pair of slung engine nacelles and a folding atmospheric wing the Federation underwriters insist on. The light corvette is the smallest hull rated for independent FTL crossings and the largest a single committed crew can fly without specialist deck staff. The class is the iconic Smuggler-Captain vessel: armed enough to make a customs cutter think twice, cheap enough to lose to a bad debt, fast enough off the deck to outrun the consequences. Federation patrol issue is austere and white-painted; Black Meridian conversions repaint over the serial and weld extra fuel cells where the auxiliary hold used to be; Aurelion privateer commissions are absurd. Stat handles (design doc §11): approximate Hull Points 60 (component subsystems split per planned hull-component subsystem), in-system sublight cruise on the order of mid-fraction-of-c, atmospheric flight low-supersonic in level cruise, FTL jump capacity for short to medium hauls between charted nodes with a single navigator. Crew 6 minimum-effective (pilot, co-pilot/navigator, engineer, gunner, comms, and one rotating bunk); berths for 8 passengers in tight quarters or fewer in comfort. Notable features: dorsal turret hardpoint plus two fixed forward weapon mounts; modest cargo hold (roughly 60 cubic meters); life-support sustains crew complement for approximately 60 days; integrated docking collar. A Pilot of the Smuggler-Captain subclass treats this corvette as a Bonded Vessel.