Exploration Ship w/ Survey Craft, Names Pending

[xenoscepter (OP)]

 - - I have yet to name either of these, I am still trying to come up with good names. I'm taking suggestions though, if you want to make one. These two ships come as a result of me wanting to make something novel for the sake of novelty. The primary purpose of the Survey Craft is to conduct Gravitational Surveys of new systems, while the six "Buoy Dropper" tubes allow it to conduct Geological Surveys via Geo Probes on promising / priority targets. Some examples of promising / priority targets would be things such as Low-CC worlds, Gas Giants during a Sorium Shortage, system bodies with orbits that pass close to JPs, etc. The Exploration Ship on the other hand has been designed chiefly for ferrying this Survey Craft through JPs and provide support to it in the form of R&R, MSP and Fuel. The rather large Jump Drive can be used for ferrying 12,000 Ton Geo Survey ships across said JPs to mop up asteroids and other less promising / less important bodies in the system. It is intended also for the carriage of 100 Geo Probes for use in the Survey Craft. When this ship returns for re-fueling / re-arming, it can pickup dedicated GeoSurvey Ships to drop them off at systems that are not yet fully surveyed. As time wears on and these ships hit their inevitable obsolescence, the Exploration ship can be used as a second-line or rear guard FAC Tender while the Survey Craft could potentially be used to drop Orbital Bombs, which are essentially weaponized Buoys with a warhead in the place of the sensor / reactor, should the opportunity arise.

Exploration Ship

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New Class class Exploration Ship (P)      12.000 tons       99 Crew       601.3 BP       TCS 240    TH 375    EM 0
1562 km/s    JR 1-25(C)      Armour 3-46       Shields 0-0       HTK 26      Sensors 1/1/0/0      DCR 11      PPV 0
MSP 1.021    Max Repair 100 MSP
Hangar Deck Capacity 1.000 tons     Magazine 100   
Commander    Control Rating 2   BRG   PFC   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Flight Crew Berths 20   
2x Shipboard Hydroponics Garden, Standard   

T4000-4/3/50 Jump Drive, Class 12KC     Max Ship Size 12000 tons    Distance 25k km     Squadron Size 1

T3000-100T Ion Drive, Class 375/0-70C (1)    Power 375    Fuel Use 5.05%    Signature 375    Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 700.000 Litres    Range 207.8 billion km (1539 days at full power)

T15/10-5R1 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     GPS 3     Range 2.2m km    MCR 196.7k km    Resolution 1
T15/10-5R500 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     GPS 1500     Range 17.3m km    Resolution 500
T10/1EM Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     Sensitivity 1     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  7.9m km
T10/1TH Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     Sensitivity 1     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  7.9m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a a for auto-assignment purposes
Component Breakdown

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Command, Control & Communications:
- 1x Bridge
- 1x Primary Flight Control
- 1x T4000-4/3/50 Jump Drive, Class 12KC
- 1x T3000-100T Ion Drive, Class 375/0-70C
- 1x T15/10-5R1 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade
- 1x T15/10-5R500 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade
- 1x T10/1EM Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade
- 1x T10/1TH Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade

Life Support:
- 3x Crew Quarters
- 2x Crew Quarters, Smal
- 1x Crew Quarters, Tiny
- 1x Commercial Hangar Deck
- 2x Shipboard Hydroponics Garden, Standard

Logistics & Engineering:
- 1x Engineering Spaces
- 1x Maintenance Storage Bay
- 4x Maintenance Storage Bay, Small
- 3x Maintenance Storage Bay, Tiny
- 3x Maintenance Storage Bay, Fighter
- 4x Fuel Storage
- 2x Fuel Storage, Large
- 1x Commercial Damage Control

Armor & Defense Systems:
- 17.5x Composite Armor

Ammunition & Armaments:
- Commercial Magazine - Capacity 100

Survey Craft

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New Class class Survey Craft (P)      1.000 tons       27 Crew       175.7 BP       TCS 20    TH 38    EM 0
1875 km/s      Armour 1-8       Shields 0-0       HTK 8      Sensors 1/1/1/0      DCR 2      PPV 0.9
Maint Life 24.62 Years     MSP 262    AFR 4%    IFR 0.0%    1YR 1    5YR 12    Max Repair 100 MSP
Magazine 6   
Lieutenant Commander    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 23 months    Morale Check Required   

T300-100T Ion Drive, Class 37.50/0-70M (1)    Power 37.5    Fuel Use 15.98%    Signature 37.5    Explosion 5%
Fuel Capacity 100.000 Litres    Range 112.7 billion km (695 days at full power)

Buoy Dropper, Class 1 (6)     Missile Size: 1    Hangar Reload 50 minutes    MF Reload 8 hours
T5/10-5R1 Buoy Dropper Control Unit, Standard Grade (1)     Range 2.5m km    Resolution 1

T15/10-5R1 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     GPS 3     Range 2.2m km    MCR 196.7k km    Resolution 1
T15/10-5R500 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     GPS 1500     Range 17.3m km    Resolution 500
T10/1EM Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     Sensitivity 1     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  7.9m km
T10/1TH Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade (1)     Sensitivity 1     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  7.9m km
Gravitational Survey Sensors (1)   1 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Survey Ship for auto-assignment purposes
Component Breakdown

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Command, Control & Communications:
- 1x T300-100T Ion Drive, Class 37.50/0-70M
- 1x T15/10-5R1 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade
- 1x T15/10-5R500 Active Sensor Suite, Standard Grade
- 1x T10/1EM Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade
- 1x T10/1TH Passive Sensor Suite, Standard Grade
- 1x T5/10-5R1 Buoy Dropper Control Unit, Standard Grade
- 1x Gravitational Survey Sensors

Life Support:
- 1x Crew Quarters
- 2x Crew Quarters, Small
- 2x Crew Quarters, Tiny

Logistics & Engineering:
- 2x Engineering Spaces
- 1x Engineering Spaces, Tiny
- 3x Maintenance Storage Bay, Fighter
- 2x Fuel Storage

Armor & Defense Systems:
- 1.1x Composite Armor

Ammunition & Armaments:
- 6x Buoy Dropper, Class 1

[serger]

I use rather resemblant exploration meta, yet my naming pools are very specific, Enlightment-focuced and not very large.
Some of those may still suit for you.

[Old Europe] River class pool:

Daugava
Elbe
Loire
Oder
Rhein
Tagus
Vistula

[Old Europe] University class pool:

Oxford
Sorbonne
Cambridge
Cochrane
Salamanca
Padova
Montpellier
Siena
Perugia
Zurich
Heidelberg
Erlangen
Gottingen
Graz

Stargazer class pool:

Giordano Bruno
Johannes Kepler
Mikolaj Kopernik
Galileo Galilei
Tycho Brahe
Christiaan Huygens

Leonhard Euler
Joseph Lagrange
William Herschel
Angelo Secchi
Edward Pickering
Henrietta Leavitt

Edwin Hubble
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Walter Baade
Jan Oort
Lyman Spitzer
Arthur Eddington

Vesto Slipher
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Gerard Kuiper
James Van Allen
Ralph Alpher
Andrea Ghez

Gaya class pool:

Carl Linnaeus
Alexander von Humboldt
Ignaz Semmelweis
Joseph Lister
Svante Arrhenius
Ilya Mechnikov

Ronald Fisher
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Konrad Lorenz
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Carl Woese
Peter Medawar

Louis Leakey
Frans de Waal
Vilayanur Ramachandran
Stephen Gould
Alison Des Forges
Elizabeth Loftus

Heaven class pool:

Avalon
Annwn
Tir na nOg
Valhalla
Elysium
Tamoanchan
Aaru
Neorxnawang

Anthem class pool:

Omar Khayyam
Francesco Petrarca
Lorenzo Valla
Rudolf Agricola
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Nikolaus von Kues
Ulrich von Hutten
Christopher Marlowe
Jean de La Fontaine
Cyrano de Bergerac
Adrien Helvetius
Hugo Grotius
Francois Arouet
Denis Diderot
Charles-Joseph de Ligne
Olympe de Gouges
Alexander Griboyedov
Mikhail Lermontov
William Thackeray
Aleksey Tolstoy
Guy de Maupassant
Samuel Clemens
Prosper Merimee
Anton Chehov
Rudyard Kipling
Mikhail Bulgakov
Marguerite Yourcenar

Skycrawler class pool:

Otto Lilienthal
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
James Doolittle
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Birdie class pool:

Kestrel
Merlin
Nightjar
Albatross
Sparrow
Swift
Oriole

Skua
Cormorant
Fulmar
Heron
Petrel
Skimmer