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Description
Overview

The Norvus-class is one the most common sights in any IRS system, immensely popular among a wide variety of users for its versatile modular design. First built in the 2070s to facilitate the IRS's first wave of colonial expansion, the Norvus-class remains in faithful service to the Republic's logistical and economic needs regularly updated with new modules to extend its usefulness. The ship is built on a 'skeletal frame' chassis where everything from the command deck, the FTL drive, personnel quarters and life support, fusion reactors and engines are mounted onto. This makes maintenance, repair and upgrading incredibly easy - just pop out the damaged or obsolete module and replace it with a new one. This also gives it its trademark versatility where different modules can be swapped out for various kinds of missions. The Norvus-class is 1km in length.

Variants

1) Base Model

The unmodified Norvus-class with no container attached.

2) Cargo Freighter

A Norvus-class with a shipping container that stores a wide variety of goods. These are widely used by individual merchants and smaller shipping companies to ship relatively small amounts of cargo in contrast to bigger interstellar corporations who can afford to service huge vessels.

3) Fuel Tanker

Harvests gas and liquid-based fuels ranging from hydrocarbons to fusion nano-fuels, mainly from gas giants, and then ships them to where they are needed. These fuel tankers are vital to resupplying orbital fuel depots and shipyards.

4) Mining Ship

With the support deck swapped for a hangar bay that can accomodate a number of robotic probes and mining drones as well as an attached storage bay for raw minerals and ores, these ships frequent asteroid belts and mineral-rich moons and planetoids to harvest such resources and ship them back to orbital refineries where they can be processed.

5) Passenger Ferry

Has a passenger module that can comfortably fit in up to 20,000 personnel with enough space for life support, passenger cargo and essentials such as food and water. These are used to transport people between planets and systems bringing in tourists, workers, officials and more.

6) Lunar Base Lifter

Norvus-class ships can also transport a variety of container-sized base buildings, making them useful in ferrying and dropping them off to quickly set up lunar bases, research facilities and even small civilian settlements.

Description
Overview

The Norvus-class is one the most common sights in any IRS system, immensely popular among a wide variety of users for its versatile modular design. First built in the 2070s to facilitate the IRS's first wave of colonial expansion, the Norvus-class remains in faithful service to the Republic's logistical and economic needs regularly updated with new modules to extend its usefulness. The ship is built on a 'skeletal frame' chassis where everything from the command deck, the FTL drive, personnel quarters and life support, fusion reactors and engines are mounted onto. This makes maintenance, repair and upgrading incredibly easy - just pop out the damaged or obsolete module and replace it with a new one. This also gives it its trademark versatility where different modules can be swapped out for various kinds of missions. The Norvus-class is 1km in length.

Variants

1) Base Model

The unmodified Norvus-class with no container attached.

2) Cargo Freighter

A Norvus-class with a shipping container that stores a wide variety of goods. These are widely used by individual merchants and smaller shipping companies to ship relatively small amounts of cargo in contrast to bigger interstellar corporations who can afford to service huge vessels.

3) Fuel Tanker

Harvests gas and liquid-based fuels ranging from hydrocarbons to fusion nano-fuels, mainly from gas giants, and then ships them to where they are needed. These fuel tankers are vital to resupplying orbital fuel depots and shipyards.

4) Mining Ship

With the support deck swapped for a hangar bay that can accomodate a number of robotic probes and mining drones as well as an attached storage bay for raw minerals and ores, these ships frequent asteroid belts and mineral-rich moons and planetoids to harvest such resources and ship them back to orbital refineries where they can be processed.

5) Passenger Ferry

Has a passenger module that can comfortably fit in up to 20,000 personnel with enough space for life support, passenger cargo and essentials such as food and water. These are used to transport people between planets and systems bringing in tourists, workers, officials and more.

6) Lunar Base Lifter

Norvus-class ships can also transport a variety of container-sized base buildings, making them useful in ferrying and dropping them off to quickly set up lunar bases, research facilities and even small civilian settlements.