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| vesselname = Nimbus III | vesselname = Nimbus III
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− | type = [[DropShip]] ([[DropShuttle]]) + | type = [[DropShip]]
| class = [[Clippership IV]]'' (modified; arguably a prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'') | class = [[Clippership IV]]'' (modified; arguably a prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'')
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==History== ==History==
− The '''''Nimbus III''''' was a [[DropShip]] notable for having been involved in the first successful test of a [[Docking Collar]] in [[2458]]. In a way, it was the very first "DropShip" as opposed to the [[DropShuttle]]s that had previously been carried in internal shuttle bays on primitive [[JumpShip]]s. + The '''''Nimbus III''''' was a [[DropShip]] notable for having been involved in the first successful test of a [[Docking Collar]] in [[2458]]. In a way, it was the very first "DropShip" as opposed to the DropShuttles that had previously been carried in internal shuttle bays on primitive [[JumpShip]]s.
Owned and operated by [[Deimos Clipperships]] of Mars, the DCS ''Nimbus III'' was a ''[[Clippership IV]]'' DropShuttle modified with a prototype [[docking collar]]. It was successfully mated externally with the first modern [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Liberty (JumpShip class)|Liberty]]''-class [[Olympus (Individual Liberty-class JumpShip)|BNS ''Olympus'']], which then executed a successful jump, proving the first dropship collars and K-F Booms.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15">''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 15, "Liberty JumpShip"</ref> The ''Olympus''/''Nimbus III'' was the culmination of a collaborative technology program involving [[Blue Nose Interstellar Technologies]], the Department of Theoretical Physics at Mars University and half a dozen aerospace manufacturing companies, and she revolutionized interstellar travel.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15"/> Owned and operated by [[Deimos Clipperships]] of Mars, the DCS ''Nimbus III'' was a ''[[Clippership IV]]'' DropShuttle modified with a prototype [[docking collar]]. It was successfully mated externally with the first modern [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Liberty (JumpShip class)|Liberty]]''-class [[Olympus (Individual Liberty-class JumpShip)|BNS ''Olympus'']], which then executed a successful jump, proving the first dropship collars and K-F Booms.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15">''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 15, "Liberty JumpShip"</ref> The ''Olympus''/''Nimbus III'' was the culmination of a collaborative technology program involving [[Blue Nose Interstellar Technologies]], the Department of Theoretical Physics at Mars University and half a dozen aerospace manufacturing companies, and she revolutionized interstellar travel.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15"/>
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− | | type = [[DropShip]] | + | | type = [[DropShip]] |
| class = [[Clippership IV]]'' (modified; arguably a prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'') | | class = [[Clippership IV]]'' (modified; arguably a prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'') | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
− | The '''''Nimbus III''''' was a [[DropShip]] notable for having been involved in the first successful test of a [[Docking Collar]] in [[2458]]. In a way, it was the very first "DropShip" as opposed to the | + | The '''''Nimbus III''''' was a [[DropShip]] notable for having been involved in the first successful test of a [[Docking Collar]] in [[2458]]. In a way, it was the very first "DropShip" as opposed to the DropShuttles that had previously been carried in internal shuttle bays on primitive [[JumpShip]]s. |
Owned and operated by [[Deimos Clipperships]] of Mars, the DCS ''Nimbus III'' was a ''[[Clippership IV]]'' DropShuttle modified with a prototype [[docking collar]]. It was successfully mated externally with the first modern [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Liberty (JumpShip class)|Liberty]]''-class [[Olympus (Individual Liberty-class JumpShip)|BNS ''Olympus'']], which then executed a successful jump, proving the first dropship collars and K-F Booms.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15">''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 15, "Liberty JumpShip"</ref> The ''Olympus''/''Nimbus III'' was the culmination of a collaborative technology program involving [[Blue Nose Interstellar Technologies]], the Department of Theoretical Physics at Mars University and half a dozen aerospace manufacturing companies, and she revolutionized interstellar travel.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15"/> | Owned and operated by [[Deimos Clipperships]] of Mars, the DCS ''Nimbus III'' was a ''[[Clippership IV]]'' DropShuttle modified with a prototype [[docking collar]]. It was successfully mated externally with the first modern [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Liberty (JumpShip class)|Liberty]]''-class [[Olympus (Individual Liberty-class JumpShip)|BNS ''Olympus'']], which then executed a successful jump, proving the first dropship collars and K-F Booms.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15">''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 15, "Liberty JumpShip"</ref> The ''Olympus''/''Nimbus III'' was the culmination of a collaborative technology program involving [[Blue Nose Interstellar Technologies]], the Department of Theoretical Physics at Mars University and half a dozen aerospace manufacturing companies, and she revolutionized interstellar travel.<ref name="XTRO:P3p15"/> |