San Pedro Bay
San Pedro Bay Transfer (or 'Yard') Pod Tenders
The San Pedro Bay class of Transfer Pod Tenders (YPH) are the workhorses of the orbital harbors, holding and switching pods with colony and cargo ships. Conceptually they are based on the Auroras like many of our support designs. They are little more than spaceworthy frames with the capacity of holding up to 240 pods in forty rings of six. (Is this "40x6" canon? That's a very long, very narrow ship. "12x20" would be much shorter and fatter. -ZM) These are split with twenty each fore and aft of the rudimentary bridge, which also has two pod lighter bays. The YPH's are FTL capable but just barely so they can move between planets inside the system they are assigned to. They are ponderous at best, as they are equipped with the same engines as an Aurora but with well over twice the mass even when 'empty'.
As is typical for such utility craft, they are normally unmanned and operated by an AI. The first twenty built included space available for one single crew member. This was intended for use in case the Sa'arm arrives and the tender needs to flee the system with whatever it can carry with it. Later builds expanded that to the functionality of a standard residence pod, allowing an expanded crew which might be permanently assigned.
Hull Listing
The type was designated as YPH for "Yard Pod Tenders, Hyper-capable". The first twenty were named after the bodies of water nearest the largest container handling ports in North America. This was to avoid confusion as it was likely that many of the names of those major cities would be used for other Confederation Navy vessels.
- YPH001 - San Pedro Bay
- YPH002 - Queensway Bay
- YPH003 - Newark Bay
- YPH004 - Hudson River
- YPH005 - Savannah River
- YPH006 - Vancouver Harbour
- YPH007 - Oakland Harbor
- YPH008 - Elliott Bay
- YPH009 - Galveston Bay
- YPH010 - Hampton Roads
- YPH011 - Bahía de Manzanillo
- YPH012 - Commencement Bay
- YPH013 - Fleuve Sainte-Laurent
- YPH014 - Charleston Harbor
- YPH015 - St. John's River
- YPH016 - Biscayne Bay
- YPH017 - Chesapeake Bay
- YPH018 - Cow Bay
- YPH019 - Mobile Bay (Used in A Shepherd No More)
- YPH020 - Tampa Bay
Following international complaints, the naming of the next group reflected the bodies of water nearest major container ports worldwide.
- YPH021 - Hangzhou Bay
- YPH022 - Keppel Harbour
- YPH023 - Victoria Harbour
- YPH024 - Shenzhen Bay
- YPH025 - Suyeong Bay
- YPH026 - Pearl River Delta
- YPH027 - Nieuwe Maas
- YPH028 - Malacca Strait
- YPH029 - Elbe River
- YPH030 - Scheldt Estuary
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