Shepard Class Cruiser

Impulse interplanetary ship, 1500 tons 106 meters long. crew of 50. It has two airlocks, crew quarters a galley, medical bay, bridge, engineering, wardroom, can dock and carry 2 Lancers or a single Delta i, and so forth. All the comfort of an old flush deck four stacker. Which for a space craft is the bleedin' Ritz.
The Shepard class ships were designed as zero G vessels. The USA and Warp Drive Project (the ones with money) are retro fitting them with gravity. They have been equipped with Class One Phasers and simple force fields for system defense. 
They are still accomplishing a great deal of solar system science. The class is being supplanted by the Challenger Class Cruiser
==Ships of the Class==
*Allen B. Sheppard -- NASA 
*Donald F Slayton -- Warp Drive Project Armed
*Francie Ivan Grissom -- NASA 
*Jules Verne -- ESA 
*St. Nikolos Romanov -- Russian, built by Lockmart under contract. Armed
*USS Theodore Roosevelt -- USA Space Command Armed
*RRS Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer -- Russian funded. Armed
*HMRS James Clerk Maxwell -- English built ESA Armed
*USS Robert H. Goddard -- USA Space Command Armed
*USS Wernher von Braun -- USA Space Command. Armed
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