The Jumbo carries four Life Boats and two escape pods. Four tons of ammunition keep the AC/5s supplied for brief engagements, and the ship's hull is protected by 32.5 tons of standard armor. The Jumbo-class of DropShips mounts two medium lasers in every arc, with two AC/5s mounted in the nose and another AC/5 in each of the forward arcs. ĭespite being designed for the civilian market, the Jumbo-class of DropShips would move more than their share of military cargo as well during the closing years of the Age of War and the Reunification War, as these hardy ships were capable of surviving limited combat operations and rough handling, and would appear at such events as the Malagrotta Incident and Case AMBER. Jointly, our Heavy Lift Vessels form the largest project heavy lift fleet in the world. Despite the debut of the Mule, Jumbo-class DropShips would remain in service until worn out, serving throughout the Succession Wars and into the modern era. With a versatile fleet of 30 advanced project cargo vessels, Jumbo and SAL combine their strengths and resources to deliver solid logistics solutions for renewables, oil & gas, marine and yachting, breakbulk and industrial cargo.
Ĭapable of moving more than ten thousand metric tons of cargo, the Jumbo represented the pinnacle of civilian engineering for the era and would rule the interstellar space lanes for more than 200 years, until they were eventually replaced with the more modern Mule-class DropShip. The Jumbo would answer the escalating shipping costs that a constantly expanding human sphere was generating. with the higher amount reserved for the first vessel in a new class. The Jumbo was born out of a combination of the rapid maturation of naval technologies and design philosophies that the colonization boom of the 22nd and 23rd centuries had seen along with the spiraling demand to move ever-increasing quantities of cargo to more and more worlds. First introduced by the Terran Hegemony in the early decades of the 25th century, Jumbo soon became the name of a general DropShip class rather than the name of a specific DropShip, as manufacturers in every interstellar nation began to design and build their own versions.
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