Beowulf-class

This “grapple corvette” is the standard imperial military tug.

A corvette-sized vessel equipped with two folding arms for close combat/towing, it is built on a 1,000-ton (SM +8) streamlined hull, and is 47 meters long.

The large drive allows them to tow and manipulate much larger loads at reasonable speed.

There is currently an experimental program where few hundred of these have been converted to different versions of TL10/11 grapple concepts. Most have changed the drives to be several TL 11 super reactionless drives while removing the rest of the drives and instead adding a major battery or spinal tractor beam.

Front Hull System

• [1] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [2-3] Robot Arms.
• [4!] Medium Battery (three turret mount 100 MJ improved lasers).
• [5] Tactical Array (comm/sensor 9).
• [6] Habitat (two cabins, two bunkrooms, one-bed automed sickbay, and five tons cargo).
• [core] Control Room (C8 computer, comm/sensor 7, and four control stations).

Central Hull System

• [1] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [2-3!] Stardrive Engine (FTL-1 each).
• [4-6] Fusion Reactor (two Power Points each)

Rear Hull System

• [1] Nanocomposite.
• [2-6!] Hot reactionless drive(2G each)
• [Core] Engine Room (one control station).

Typical crew is four bridge members (pilot, captain, navigator/gunner, engineering officer) and an engine-room mechanic. Some boarding specialists may also be carried.