A relatively common sight in and around the core Imperial worlds that have sufficient populations and a mobile enough citizenry that demand for passage to other worlds is quite high. The liner is designed to meet the needs of both the business and the recreational traveller, employing highly skilled staff to entertain and generally pamper the guests aboard, with the very finest of cuisine from all over Imperial space. Accommodations aboard are slightly on the small side, with as much space as possible given to passenger lounges, restaurants, gift shops, salons, casinos and ballrooms, gymnasiums and health spas, not to mention other common areas such as corridors, and lifts to other floors. The small size of the most cabins is scarcely an issue though, as passengers are encouraged to get out and enjoy the delights around them. Décor is tasteful, elegant and luxurious throughout all 24 double sized (super high passage) suites, the 50 standard (high passage) staterooms and all 1070 small cabins.

Apart from the stewards required to look after this many passengers, each liner also employs a specialist crew of orchestra members and entertainers (there is a 42 piece Sylean style orchestra aboard) and are given passenger cabins for their accommodations in order to encourage them to socialise and interact with the passengers whenever possible as they tend to make generally entertaining and interesting travelling companions. In addition to their main duties they are often asked to give impromptu shows all over the ship, making the most of the many and diverse passenger lounges and are considered on duty as long as they're awake, as compensation for this they are paid handsomely averaging Cr3, 000 per month and treated as high passengers whilst aboard, even though they sleep in mid passage cabins. Needless to say a ship as busy as this enjoys its downtime (i.e. the week in port when passengers are embarking or disembarking) and normally one or two days of the week the ship can be found to be empty aside from crew (many of which take shore leave) which is essential for maintenance and cleaning and repair duties, not to mention, restock and supply of consumables.

Crew quarters are quite separate and well away from passenger areas, the ships captain has an extra large suite, whilst his officers all enjoy a single large stateroom, other crew members all have a small cabin each and that they can call their own and count themselves lucky that at least they don't have to share with anyone else as is common aboard other vessels.

The cargo hold is small, though sufficient to contain any possessions of passengers that cannot be stowed in their suites whilst aboard, though for the most part it normally contains additional life support supplies and a few spare parts for essential ship systems.

Each liner of this class is named for a significant member of the Imperial Royal Family, such as 'Princess Ilea' and of course the 'Emperor Cleon Zhunastu' the flag ship of the fleet and tend to stick to a designated route close to the Imperial core in order to maintain profitability.

In times of major conflict it is expected that these ships would be mobilised if necessary to support the Imperial Navy, and converted into troop carriers etc (though as the Imperium is growing stronger this is looking less and less likely).

The design of the ship means that it cannot land and take off from planetary surfaces though it can skim for fuel, hence all servicing of the craft and passenger embarkation and leaving etc has to be done in orbit, normally as it makes scheduled stops this isn't an issue as most core world have high-ports and other orbital stations the liner can dock, or in some cases a shuttle or other tender will be sent out to the liner to transfer passengers, take off cargo and supply consumables etc. The ship also has dedicated hanger space for a 100-ton passenger shuttle (this is not included in the price) so that they can conduct their own passenger/cargo transfers if need be.

Though rarely threatened each liner is equipped with an extensive defensive grid of beam lasers and sandcasters, the sand canisters of which are stored in missile magazines supplied with future upgrades in mind, as sandcasters can be easily removed and missile turrets emplaces instead, with the magazine space readily available.

The illustration of the Liner on Page 26 of the T4 Starships book shows the vessel flying upside down relative to the outside observer

Royal Class Luxury Liner

Class: Liner                        Ep Output: 185
Tech Level: 12                      Agility: 1
Size: (Large 5000 Tons)             Initiative: 1
Streamlining: Semi Streamlined      AC: 10
Jump Range: 1 x Jump 2              Repulsors: None
Acceleration 1G Thruster            Nuclear Dampers: None
Fuel 1185 Tons (Liquid Hydrogen)    Meson Screens: None
Duration: 4 weeks                   Black Globes: None
Crew: 143                           AR: 0
Staterooms: 58                      SI: 350
Small Cabins: 1142                  Main Computer: Model 6
Bunks: 0                            Sensor Range: Extreme (model 6)
Couches:                            Comm. Range: Extreme (model 6)
Deluxe Staterooms: 25
Low Berths: 0         
Cargo Space: 74.3 Tons              Cost: Mcr 2,478.984 (Mcr 2, 007.1872 in 
Quantity)
Atmospheric speeds                  Noe= 875 kph
Cruising = 825 kph                  Maximum = 1100 kph

Other Equipment: Fuel Scoops & Purifier (refines 1185 in 24 Hours) 1 x 
optional passenger shuttle (not included in price)

1 x Beam Laser Battery USP=8
2 x Sandcaster Batteries USP=7

Excess Power (50 in normal operations, none whilst jump drive activated)

Crew Detail:

Command Crew: 9 

1 x Captain, 1 x Executive Officer, 2 x Helm Officer, 2 x Astrogation Officer, 
1 x Medical Officer, 1 x Gunnery Officer, 1x Communications Officer

Ratings: 72

3 x Gunners (1 per battery), 4 x Medical Crew, 3 x Engineering Petty Officers, 
15 x Service Crew, 15 x ship's Troops, 60 x Stewards, 2 x flight crew

Specialist crew: 62

(42 piece orchestra and 20 actors/entertainers)

Costs & Revenues: (Per Operational Month)

Sandcaster canisters: Mcr 0.320 (full load out) not counted, as they may not be 
used

Life support: Mcr 4.9 (Passengers & all crew/month)
Crew Costs: Mcr 0.410 (slightly more than needed to allow for crew bonuses etc)
Unrefined Fuel: Mcr 0.474000  (Cr 200x 1185 tons x 2) including fee for 
shipping fuel to orbit.

Mortgage: Mcr 8, 363, 280

Totals: Mcr 14.147280

Revenues (Mcr: 18.568) Per Operational Month

24 x Super High Passage    25 x Cr 30,000 = Mcr 0.72 x 2 = 1.44
50 x High Passage        100 x Cr 10,000 = Mcr 0.5 x 2 = 1.0        
1008 x mid Passage        1050 x Cr 8,000 = Mcr 8.064 x 2 = 16.128

This does not include incidental income from, casino and other pay for services 
(gift shops etc) or cargo hold as that is assumed to hold passengers belongings 
and additional consumables for the ship (life support & spare parts etc)

Expected Profits; Mcr 4.42072 per operational month 

Design Worksheet.

Installed Component        Tonnage    MCR    Ep      Notes.

Hull                       +5000      300.0    ----    Close Structure  
Bridge                       100        2.5    ----    
Computer                      0.6      61.2    -5.0    Model 6
Avionics                      1.6      (3.6)   ----    Model 4
Sensors                       1.8      (3.6)   ----    Model 6
Commo                         1.2      (3.0)   ----    Model 6
M-Drive                     100.0     150.0   -50.0    1G Thruster
Jump Drive                  150.0     600.0  -100.0    Jump=2
Jump Fuel                  1000.0      ----    ----    1 x Jump 2
Power Plant                 277.5     832.5    +185    Fusion Tl-9
Fuel 4 weeks                185.0      ----    ----    Liquid Hydrogen
Hardpoints                   ----       5.0    ----    50 Hardpoints
30 Triple Turrets            ----      30.0    ----    
Beam laser Battery USP=8     30        90.0      30    10 Turrets 3 weapons
2 x Sandcaster USP=7         60        15.0    ----    20 Turrets 3 sandcasters
Sandcaster magazines         20.0       2.0    ----    13 Battery rounds
Fuel Scoops                  ----       5.0    ----    
Purification Plant           12.0       0.064  ----    400 Tons in 8 Hours
24 x deluxe stateroom       192.0      24.0    ----    Super High Passage
50 x Stateroom              200.0      25.0    ----    Dedicated High Passage
1070 x Small Cabin         2140       267.5    ----    Mid Passage
1 x Master's Stateroom        8.0       1.0    ----    Captain's Cabin
8 x Stateroom                32.0       4.0    ----    Officer's Quarters
72 x small cabins           144        54.0    ----    Crew Quarters
Sickbay                     160        40.0    ----    Can accommodate 40
1 x shuttle bay             110         0.220  ----    1 x Passenger shuttle
Cargo                        74.3      ----    ----
Totals                     5000       185.0    
                          2.508.984
Excess Power = EP: 50 in normal space, when jump drive activated: no extra 
available

Original T4 Design: Lewis Roberts.

Design re-developed for T20, by Mark Bridgeman.

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