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Line 10: 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 [[DropShuttle]]s 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 (Liberty)|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"/> Within a decade of the successful jump, Deimos Clipperships produced the ''Clippership V'' class which was essentially a model IV with a docking collar;<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 14, "Czar DropShip"</ref> the ''Nimbus III'' could thus arguably be described as the first, prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'' type vessel. Within a decade of the successful jump, Deimos Clipperships produced the ''Clippership V'' class which was essentially a model IV with a docking collar;<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 14, "Czar DropShip"</ref> the ''Nimbus III'' could thus arguably be described as the first, prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'' type vessel.
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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 [[DropShuttle]]s 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 ( | + | 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 (Liberty)|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"/> |
Within a decade of the successful jump, Deimos Clipperships produced the ''Clippership V'' class which was essentially a model IV with a docking collar;<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 14, "Czar DropShip"</ref> the ''Nimbus III'' could thus arguably be described as the first, prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'' type vessel. | Within a decade of the successful jump, Deimos Clipperships produced the ''Clippership V'' class which was essentially a model IV with a docking collar;<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 3'', p. 14, "Czar DropShip"</ref> the ''Nimbus III'' could thus arguably be described as the first, prototype ''[[Clippership V]]'' type vessel. | ||