From The Traveller Book:
Using a 400-ton hull, the laboratory ship is a mobile base for scientific analysis and investigation. It mounts jump drive-D, maneuver drive-C, and power plant-F, giving a performance of jump-2 and I-G acceleration. Fuel tankage for 90 tons supports the power plant and one jump-I. Adjacent to the bridge is a model-2 computer. There are twenty staterooms and no low berths. The ship has two hardpoints and two tons allocated to fire control. No weapons are installed. There are three ship’s vehicles: two air/rafts and one 40-ton pinnace. Cargo capacity is 23 tons. Laboratory space equals 85 tons. One ton is waste space. The ship is unstreamlined.
The laboratory ship requires a crew of five: pilot, navigator, two engineers, and medic. Gunners and scientific research personnel may be added. The pilot operates the pinnace; the engineers operate the air/rafts. The ship can carry 20 passengers (35 if double occupancy) on a noncommercial basis. The ship costs MCr158.98 (including 10% discount for standard designs) and takes 14 months to build.
Relying on the Pinnace and the two LSP Air/Rafts, the crew of the Nightingale can visit a wide variety of worlds. As the vessel is capable of jump 2, it can visit all the worlds on the rim of the Greater Collace Rift, but will have difficulties visiting the three worlds within the rift.
The Nightingale is dedicated to Biological and Medical research. It is equipped with a wide variety of different laboratory spaces. A large number of research scientists could be operating on the Nightingale at any time.
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