Holliday Research/Industries
& "Star's Child"

You read the flimsy you picked up in the office concerning Collien's new company as the shuttle unlinks with the station.

HOLLIDAY RESEARCH/INDUSTRIES

Holliday Research/Industries is Collien's attempt at a peaceful company intent on gathering sensor information, and producing technologies that are safe and easy to use. H.R./I. will not produce any weapons of mass destruction. Ever. We will produce weapons designed to protect the user, and defend them from attack. We are mostly concerned with creating devices based on psionics. Unfortunately, most of the devices can only be used by psionicists, but research is being done to allow others to use them as well.

Our new spring line of psi-armor ought to be quite fashionable. ^_^

planet from space

Looming in the darkness of space is the Star's Child. What used to be some sort of pleasure jump ship is now being reconditioned as a science and research vessel. Sensor arrays dot her hull, as do a few small tractor beams. She is 300 meters long, 50 wide, and 20 deep. Around her aft section circles a thin torus. Sensors indicate it is the ship's jump engine. It appears as if this ship once had jump sails, but those have been removed for some reason. She has a Cygnian sunburst pattern on her underside. She has been retrofitted with a new docking bay, one capable of accepting both a few small shuttles and a single dropship.

Much of the ship has been changed from its original design, apparently, though it still has a large transparent dome as part of its top. If you peer down into the ship's promenade deck, you can see a sort of zoo inside, and a few science consoles. Oh, look, you just spotted a Terran fox.

You glance back down at the flimsy...

"Star's Child" Sensor Information

Length: 300 meters
Width: 50 meters
Depth: 20 meters
Jump engine: Tiachovsi Mark ][

  • Power: Generators and Lithium battery
    Thrusters: Tellian PulseThrust
  • Thrust Fuel: 200 tonnes capacity
    Structural Integrity: 100%
    Sensor arrays:
  • TRL-PE-1 Advanced particle/energy array
  • TRL-EM-1 electromagnetic spectrum array
  • TRL-B-1 bio scanner
  • TRL-LM-1 Lidar mapper
  • TRL-Op-1 optical enhancement.
    Comm Equipment: FarHear class com-suite
    Weapons:
  • Fore: Small Pulse Laser
  • Fore Left: Small Pulse Laser
  • Fore Right: Small Pulse Laser
  • Turret: Short Range Missile rack, 6 tubes
  • Loaded: none

    You realize this vessel has no shields, and her weapons could possibly peel an orange, given two to three weeks. She is purely for science.

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    Come, let us return and visit further with Collien.
    Are you out of time already? A pity... very well, we shall head back to the ITG docking bays. Or would you prefer to return to the ITG lobby now?
    You have questions? Quite all right... you may either write to Collien, or pmail her on the Muck.


    Descriptions of the character "Collien" and the ship "Star's Child" Copyright © 1998 T. M. Lang