Miranda
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| USS Miranda | |
| Spacecraft Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Base Hull | one “Large Array” radio telescope |
| Drive Type | cola-uncola mutual annihilation engine; 80% efficient mass-energy conversion |
| Drive Rating | Max velocity 500c |
| Owner | Miranda Consortium (several major colleges including Cambridge, MIT, Sanford, and Tokyo University; the SETI group; and many private individuals) |
| Flag of Record | Utopia Planitia, Mars |
| Faction | Half ’Dane, half Trekkie |
| Launched | Winter 2009-2010 |
| Purpose | Serious Astronomy |
| Primary Crew | April Roberts (Captain) Kenneth Barnum (Security Chief) M.L. da Vinci (Chief Engineer) Liza (Entertainment/Councilor/Astrogation AI) others, as yet unnamed |
| Other Crew | Elizabeth Crumpet (Captain's Assistant, Officer Supernumerary) others, as yet unnamed |
| Operational Status | Active |
Created by ClassicDrogn
Known Vehicle Quirks
- Its five-year mission... The USS Miranda has a sixty-month limit on its fuel supply, which can only be replenished in the Sol system. Other consumables need to be replaced more frequently, but can be scavenged from comets and gas giants.
Faction
Half ’Dane, half Trekkie
The Miranda is the result of probably the only wide-spread privately funded space program that would ever exist. There’s a carefully maintained dived between the ’waved systems (drive, enviro, navigation) and the pure hardtech (astronomy, mainly), especially in the computers. Serious Science has no room for waving hands.
