Reliant Robin

The Reliant Robin was a small scout-ship designed by Gudersnipe School and built in vast quantities during the Kamian Succession Wars. The basic design and variants were manufactured under contract by the Foundation, Alliance, and multiple member worlds. The ship is unique for being the only widely produced spacecraft to employ a Linear ion vacuum drive.

The complete schematics were released and widely disseminated by the Foundation, who while preferring to let operators buy or build under contract, effectively made the ship open-source.

Basic Design

Robins had three engines: a normal, highly standardized ion-vacuum drive in the main fuselage, and two linear drives in nacelles, mounted in wing-like protrusions. The ship also had a sensor mast.

The original design, the one built by the Foundation, was completely unarmed. The vessel was to them a scout ship, designed for the soul purpose of penetrating deep behind enemy lines and returning alive. For that, it required fantastic speed. It also needed one of the most sophisticated sensor systems ever designed.

In all, the robin had six distinct sensor systems, and carried unmanned probes. It was often described as "a scanner with a bunch of rockets strapped to it".

Engines

The Robin had two Linear ion vacuum engines, and a standard ion vacuum drive