Field Secured Container Vessel



A Field Secured Container Vessel or FSCV was a type of bulk transport vessel used by the Imperial Navy. With massive force-field generators mounted on their bows, a pair of FSCVs could generate one or more huge force-field bubbles between them, in which vast quantities of cargo could be transported.

The typical FSCV was a Loronar Corporation design, with two ships capable of supporting a chain of up to twenty 800m field bubbles and five billion cubic meters of cargo. Other FSCVs, however, were built to different designs: for instance, the Black Ice, assigned to replenishment fleet DK-209 in Mortex Sector, was bult by Rendili StarDrive.

In normal operations, a pair of FSCVs would pass through a system under way, while smaller transports ferried their cargo to its destination. This was because, while they could comfortably sustain their cruising speed in the vacuum of deep space, their ion drives provided only very slow acceleration and deceleration. Considering that two ships the size of heavy cruisers might be hauling a cargo broadly comparable in volume and tonnage to a Super Star Destroyer, and diverting most of their power output into sustaining the force-fields to do so, it is not entirely unsurprising that a typical Loronar FSCV took thirty-five hours and 600 million kilometers to move between a full stop and its normal sublight cruising speed.