SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT:United Nations
TYPE: Super-Heavy Transport/Gas Tanker
MODEL: Hygean Industrial SHST-49 Atlas class
DATE INTRODUCED: 2049 AD
DIMENSIONS:10,348.14 feet long x
             5174.07 feet diameter
MATERIAL: Composite-Alloy
POWER PLANT:
             24x Cydonia R&D CRD-HNB-TERA100
             nuclear batteries
             100x Vesta-Industries VI-HFR-TERA1
             heavy fusion reactors
             8x Cydonia R&D CFR-400K
             fusion reactors
             1x Hensai Energy HEFR-5000
             fusion reactor
OUTPUT:
             100,000,000 megawatts (CRD-HNB-TERA100)
             1,000,000 megawatts (VI-HFR-TERA1)
             400,000 megawatts (CFR-400K)
             5000 megawatts (HEFR-5000)
ARMOR TYPE: None
ARMOR THICKNESS: NA
DISPLACEMENT: 50,000,000 tons
CREW: 1787 (50 Pilots, 500 Technicians, 500 Electricians, 500 Engineers, 155 Officers, 82 Medical, and up to 100 [not standard] Security)

PROPULSION

             (PRIMARY FORWARD PROPULSION)
             16x Daigun HYIE-TERA100 ion engines
             SPEED: 15,200 mph each (243,200 mph total)

             (SECONDARY REVERSE PROPULSION)
             16x Daigun HYIE-TERA50 ion engines
             SPEED: 7600 mph each (121,600 mph total)

             (MANEUVER ROCKETS)
             29x Vesta-thrust VTNRE-2.5M nuclear rocket engines
             SPEED: 15,200 mph each
             FUEL: 24 minutes of nuclear fuel maximum.

WEAPONS:NONE

ELECTRONICS:
              1x Microwave Communications array with a 100AU range.
              1x RADAR array with a range of 200,000 miles.
              1x Passive EMS array with a range of 500,000 miles.
              1x Active EMS array with a range of 50,000 miles.

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
             4xCydonia R&D CRD-T/R-MEGA25 electromagnetic tractor/repulsor field generator; Range: 250,000,000 miles; Power Requirement: 25,000,000 megawatts each; Effect: can pull/push up to 5 billion tons (approximate).

             8x Hensai Energy HEFPP-750K fuel production plants; Range: NA; Power Requirement: 375,000 megawatts each; Effect: Produces up to 750,000 yd3 of nuclear fuel (liquid tritium) per hour.

HANGAR BAYS:
             1x35, 000,000 yd3 of atmospheric gas or liquid.
             32x 300,000 yd3 liquid tritium fuel.
             1x 866,639 yd3 of vehicles or spacecraft.

Description/Overview:
         The Atlas class of super-heavy transport ship was conceived of by UNSC master ship designer Yuri Severnoe as the solution to the UN’s problem of building refuel stations in between Earth, Mars, Venus, the asteroid belt, and Jupiter. Originally, the Atlas class was intended as a mobile spacestation capable of just refueling ships along the UNSC space lanes. Dr. Severnoe offered a totally different idea. He proposed the towing of planetoids into orbits between the inner planets and Jupiter, to be used as full-scale UN bases, refineries, and shipyards. This, of course, would require a large-scale ship/tug capable of pulling even the largest planetoids either by itself or in a fleet of such ships.
             The cost and scope of the planetoid-moving project required the building of massive spacecraft on a scale that previous Earth-bound engineers thought impossible. However, Dr. Severnoe and his team knew that the zero gravity and weightlessness of space would allow them to build the necessary ships to move the planetoids where they needed them. The biggest challenges in designing the Atlas were the engines and the nuclear reactors.
             Dr. Yuri Severnoe’s great space transport ship began production in 2049 AD, at the start of what would become the Great War. The design was horribly expensive, consuming the total Gross Industrial Production of Mars for the first four years and the first twelve ships of the class. When Vesta and Hygea bases were completed, additional Atlas production began in space garages around the two planetoids (which had been moved near the main Atlas gap via Atlas class ships). With the shipyards at Vesta and Hygea, the production of Atlas class ships increased to seven ships per year. By 2059, a whopping fifty Atlas class ships had been built, including the infamous Golden Goose, whose history is somewhat muddled by a lack of hard data on the production of the ship.
             No two Atlas class ships were exactly alike, and the entire fleet of these ships was plagued with constant problems with their engines and reactors. The ships were invaluable in the moving of the planetoids to their various locations around the inner Solar System, but had become totally obsolete and too expensive to maintain by the 2070s. After Ceres was settled into orbit between Earth and Mars in 2069 AD, the entire force of Atlas class ships was decommissioned and either scrapped or reassigned to other duties and most converted into orbital spacestations around Mars and Venus and destroyed during the 1st Interplanetary War. The Golden Goose was the only Atlas class ship to survive the 1st Interplanetary War. It was decommissioned in 2085 AD after the Saturn colonies on Titan and the other moons of the ringed planet were colonized.