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Salvaged Destroyer Escort - TLS Rocinante

The TLS Rocinante began life as the H.M.C.S. Edmonton, a Firestar-class Destroyer Escort designed before the war with the U.M.E.

The Firestar-class was a multirole vessel meant as a patrol ship and light warship, but by modern standards the class was underarmed and lightly armored.

It’s unknown how the Edmonton ended up in private hands, but after the war it passed through several owners, each of whom made extensive modifications. The remaining standard MWI weaponry on the ship was stripped out in favor of lighter, faster Autocannons, Bofors and Vulcans, for which ammunition was easier to acquire. Engineering was expanded, adding two full ore refineries and expanded assembler facilities, though at the cost of airtightness in the engineering compartment. A small flight bay was added beneath the underbelly of the ship (Typically for deploying small fighters or utility craft) and a large tower on the dorsal spine, sporting a installation-grade telecommunications dish, allowing the ship to receive transmissions at extended range.

She is known to have worked as a scavenger vessel, and been in the hands of pirates more than once, as well as being left derelict on more than one occasion. Her last misadventure left her languishing in a local system enforcement mothball yard until she was quietly ‘liberated’ by her current Captain, Pol Turuphant.

Turuphant spent some time customizing her to his preferences, including adding six Boomer torpedo tubes, and a large MWI Mk 1 Cannon array on either side of the communications dish. This pushed the vessel well outside the legally allowable armament for a civilian craft in most sectors, but as Turuphant argues “Sometimes salvage ain’t ready to be salvage yet, and needs some encouragement.”

The Rocinante retains her gravity drive, though yaw and elevation maneuvers are unbalanced, and the drive is primarily intended for thrust and braking purposes. The drive is useless in anything past .5 g, but remains useful on small moons and other environments. The ship is fully capable of operating within a planetary atmosphere, but does not have any provision for landing, relying on planetside facilities to dock at. With her modifications, her atmospheric thrusters are no longer sufficient to bear her weight on their own, but they do considerably increase loiter time by reducing hydrogen consumption. Hydrogen capacity was further increased over the base design by the addition of smaller hydrogen tanks throughout the ship, though this has lead to crew having to disconcertingly walk along pressurized hydrogen containers when moving about the ship.