| Ship/Smallcraft Code/Type | PCLRS Light Reconnaissance Craft, Small | |
| Service/Source | Harrington Blackbird Shipyard, Blackbird Station, Yeltsin’s Star VIII-A | |
| Class Name | Blackbird | |
| Mass/Displacement (Tons) | 5,000 | |
| Length Overall (Meters) | 75 | |
| Maximum Beam (Meters) | 12.5 | |
| Maximum Height (Meters) | 10 | |
| Maximum Acceleration (G) | 645 in Normal-Space | Not Hyper-Space Capable |
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| Complement | 4 (1 Officer + 3 Warrant/Enlisted) | |
| Armament Mounted | Weapon Mount Placement | |
| Type/Number | Broadside Mounts P/S | Chase Mounts F/A |
| Graser 10cm x1 | 0/0 | 1/0 |
| Launcher Mod 3CM x4 | 0/0 | 2/2 |
| PD Laser Cluster x12 | 0/0 | 6/6 |
| Missile(s) Used | GSN Mk2 Countermissile (RMN-std Countermissile); 10/tube, 40 total | |
| Parasite Complement | LCSS x1 (AC-12 Kite) | |
| Designer/Creator | Harrington Yards Ship Design Board / Blackbird Research & Development Group, Office of Shipbuilding, Grayson Space Navy | |
| Notes | The Blackbird is a long-range, high-speed space-and-atmosphere patrol and reconnaissance vessel designed around the latest generations of GSN/RMN “Ghost Rider” EW/ECM, “Impeller-2” and fission power technologies. The suite of sixteen Beta² nodes (eight per ring) gives it a relative wedge strength – and performance – superior to the Shrike class PCL, and sidewalls equal to those of the RMN’s Osprey-class FGs. The sensor and stealth suites installed in this class are identical in size and capacity to those of the Shaman-class PCLR, and when combined with the Ghost Rider drones and DD-grade sensor suites deployed from the mother ship (usually a Sacajawea class Scout Cruiser) and fifth-generation grav-pulse communicators, give the craft a potential real-time detection range of well over a light-day. The Blackbird has almost no internal accommodation space, due to its very high level of automation. The entire control system is routed into the highly-modified Kite-class LCSSwhich serves as command deck, escape vehicle, and personnel accommodation module for the four-person crew and up to two additional persons. The fission power plant has a rated service life of 10 T-months with 2-month reserve; and the life-support systems are designed to maintain a maximum of six people for up to 18 T-months. A high-efficiency solar power collector is available to maintain power to the life-support systems and to passive sensors. This system is not capable of producing sufficient power to operate the drive or the grav-pulse communicator, but the accumulators normally used to power the 10cm graser can be diverted to provide five minutes of impeller energy at quarter-strength (160G maximum acceleration) or thirty minutes normal use for the pulse communicator. | |