The Jamie Candless was a sub-light runabout designed and built by Samuel Silverman & Sons for Honor Harrington, named in honor of her personal armsman James Candless who died aboard PNS Tepes.
Wayne Alexander, a resident of Harrington Steading, worked closely with Silverman & Sons on the design and was the flight engineer in 1915 PD. Jamie Candless was small and lively enough for recreation, big enough for comfort and almost as nimble as a pinnace.[1] The vessel was damaged protecting Grayson One during the assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth III and Protector Benjamin IX.
Operational Details[]
The Jamie Candless massed 11,200 tons and was equipped with the next-to-last-generation of inertial compensator (as of 1915 PD) allowing for acceleration of close to seven hundred gravities. Equipped with a considerably better sensor suite than any other "civilian pleasure craft", the Candless also included the latest system-management AIs which in an emergency would permit one person to operate the runabout from the flight deck.
The flight deck was a pinnace-like modification with a bubble armorplast canopy over a cockpit that was too small to accommodate more than two flight chairs, one for a human and one for a treecat. The cockpit included a holographic HUD with all essential flight controls located on military-style stick in a configuration any Navy small craft pilot was intimately familiar with.
Two military grade antiparticle generators produced military grade particle and radiation shielding that permitted a maximum sustained velocity of 0.8 c. The runabout could only accommodate eight passengers in the engineer's station, passenger compartment and flight deck. (HH9)
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- ↑ There is no evidence regarding atmospheric flight or landing on planetary surfaces.