Kilo

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Kilo Class Colony Transport

The early colony transports like the Aurora were just converted Darjee freighters.  The Kilo class, in contrast, are the first purpose built colony transports for the human evacuation.  Officially called the 'Star Class' of transports, everyone quickly abandoned that name and used Kilo class, or sometimes Kilopod.  Capacity for a Kilo class colony transport is 1,024 pods.  Possible first usage around month 43.  Typical of the class is the 'Catch 22' mentioned in Taking Deliveries by The Thinking Horndog set in month 46.

The layout of a single deck is sixty-four pods in a grid of sixteen (ten-meter widths) by four (twenty-five meter lengths), all separated with one-meter clearance.  An eighteen meter wide corridor divides the deck in half.  One six-meter aisle separates the first and second rows and another six-meter aisle separates the third and fourth rows.  The second and third rows abut (except for that one-meter buffer).  That would make the corridor 117 meters long and each aisle 194 meters long.  A single transporter pad is located in the exact center of the deck.  Two additional emergency-only transporter pads are located where the aisles cross the corridor.

The sixteen pod decks would (with one meter separation each) be 175 meters tall.  The pod area would be 175 x 117 x 194 meters, and then the total ship size would include the nose and tail sections.  The gravity grids are installed such that "Down" would be toward the stern of the ship.

Standard Equipment

   By design and normal use, a Kilo's passengers are usually transferred to and from the ship via transporters while the pods deliver themselves or get delivered by the ship's 24 pod tenders.  Alternately, that many pod tenders can deliver all 1024 pods in only 43 trips if they have to.  Contrast this with the 48 trips that an Aurora's 2 pod tenders need to make to deliver 96 pods.
   In emergencies the passengers can ride down to the nearest safe piece of land in their pods.  In an emergency the crew will use the ship's standard 'House-Cat' shuttles or, if necessary, the survival shuttles.  All of these are also available for overflow passengers if damage is taken to a group of pods.

• 24 Pod Tenders
• ?? "House-Cat" Shuttles
• ?? Survival Shuttles

Ship Listing

• APM001 - Atlantic Clipper
  
• APM002 - Pacific Clipper
  
• APM003 - Indian Clipper
  
• APM004 - Mediterranean Clipper
  
• APM005 - China Clipper
  
• APM006 - Hawaii Clipper
  
• APM007 - Miami Clipper
  
• APM008 - Bengal Clipper
  
• APM009 - Sydney Clipper
  
• APM010 - Caribbean Clipper
  
• APM011 - Catch 22
  
• APM012 - Othello (commissioned at Azahar Month +46, seen in Destination Azahar by deGaffer (Timeline month: 30), Prodigious Collection by Tomken (Timeline month: 62) )
  
• APM021 - Aquarius Clipper
  
• APM022 - Capricorn Clipper
  
• APM023 - Pisces Clipper
  
• APM024 - Sagittarius Clipper
  
• APM025 - Ares Clipper
  
• APM026 - Taurus Clipper
  
• APM027 - Gemini Clipper
  
• APM028 - Cancer Clipper
  
• APM029 - Leo Clipper
  
• APM030 - Virgo Clipper
  
• APM031 - Libra Clipper
  
• APM032 - Scorpio Clipper
  
• APM033 - Araby (Used months 65-72 for colonization of Vulcan see A Perfect 10 Part 2 by akarge)
  
• APM034 - De Halve Maen (Used months 65-72 for colonization of Vulcan in A Perfect 10 Part 2 by akarge)
  

• APM100 - Boudicca (Used in Woolly Wilds 2 by starfiend (Timeline month: 28) and Albion (story) by Duke of Ramus (Timeline month: 43))
  
• APM101 - Braemar (Used in Woolly Wilds 2 by starfiend (Timeline month: 28) and Albion (story) by Duke of Ramus (Timeline month: 43))
  

Named but not numbered:

• CS Aphrodite - in "You Don't Need to Wave a Card"
  
• CS City of Bangkok - in "Chosen Frozen"
  
• CS City of Paris - in 'Trials and Tribunations'
• CS Freedom Sings - in "Going, Going..."
  
• CS Grey Goose - in "Chosen Frozen"
  
• CS Hotel California - in "Chosen Frozen"
  
• CS Hotel Maine - in "Chosen Frozen"
  
• CS I Can't Wait - still in use in Year 14
  
• CS Melbourne
  
• CS Mercury Clipper - Just commissioning in Fairly CAPable
  
• CS Princess Elizabeth - in After Lift
  
• CS Princess Victoria - in A Woman Warrior
  
• CS Townhouse - used by DECO as berthing for their headquarters ship
  
• CS Venus Clipper - Just commissioning in Fairly CAPable
  

(At least two were lost in action; "The First Command" mentions that by year six -month 72- two had been lost but gave no further details.)

See Also

• Support Ships

Story Usage

A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 2018 and performed on 2019-09-06 identified the following top ten usage counts for Kilo class:

• Chosen Frozen II by lordshipmayhem 5 instances.
• Joacim & L'ielit Anthology by Benjin 5 instances.
• Family Letters by Allan Joyal 3 instances.
• Moving Forward by Zipper D Dude 3 instances.
• A Perfect 10 Part 2 by akarge 2 instances.
• The Valley Clan Saga Part 1 by Smiley Smith 2 instances.
• After Lift by lordshipmayhem 1 instances.
• Follow My Leader by Zipper D Dude 1 instances.
• In Loco Parentis by Justin Radically 1 instances.
• Rescue Mission by Duke of Ramus 1 instances.

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