Starship Registry Entry
Type-8 Shuttle
Rugged Design
The ship is designed with the frontier in mind, with a durable construction and easy access to critical systems that allow repairs to be made easily. Reduce the Difficulty of all Tasks to repair the ship by 1, to a minimum of 1.
1 or 2, plus 6 passengers
The introduction of the Sovereign, Intrepid,and Nova-class starships meant that design teams had thechance to rework and update the reliable Type-6 shuttlecraft.The Type-8 was the result, visually almost identical to theType-6 and able to use the same maintenance facilities anddocking ports as the older model.
The major difference in standard systems inthe Type-8 over the Type-6 was a more compact and powerfulmatter/antimatter warp core. Inset bussard collectors inthe port and starboard intakes were larger enough that theshuttlecraft only carried small deuterium tanks compared toits larger antimatter storage cells. This extra power gave theType-8 a higher sustained warp speed of 2.8. The shuttle wascapable of warp 3.1, but only for short durations before thewarp coils drained the field capacitors and forced the shuttleto spend hours at sublight speeds recharging its systems.Like the Type-6, the Type-8 had the option of mounting twophasers on the nose of the vessel, requiring one of the shuttlepilots to be tactically trained. The use of the phasers wouldalso put a strain on the shuttle’s warp systems, and firingthe phasers in a tactical situation often meant forgoing thepossibility of going to warp soon after.