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Hunter Gratzner

The Hunter Gratzner in the M-344/G system

Hunter Gratzner was a merchant vessel and combined freighter, owned by Hunter Gratzner Industries Inc. and hired by the New Oslo Shipping Corporation. The ship was insured by Chiroptera Insurance. While en route to the Tangiers System with 40 commercial passengers, it was damaged by a comet in the M-344/G System and forced to crash-land on one of its planets.

Design[]

The Hunter Gratzner consisted of a cockpit and bridge section, its engine column and a total of five mismatched cargo containers. Two of the forward containers held forty passengers while the other containers held cargo and supplies.

Usable Features[]

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The Hunter Gratzner with drag fins deployed

The Hunter Gratzner was equipped with numerous emergency features, such as drag fins to slow the ship in case of uncontrollable turbulence, and a system that enabled the vessel to jettison excess mass, such as the cargo containers or even the engines in more severe circumstances. The ship was also served by a limited artificial intelligence, which automatically piloted the ship and was mostly answerable to the crew.

Crash[]

Hunter Gratzner Entering The Atmosphere

The Hunter Gratzner in extreme atmospheric entry

The Hunter Gratzner was taking a roundabout route to the Tangiers system when it flew through a comet's tail and was badly damaged. With its captain Tom Mitchell dead and ship officers Owens and Fry left to take control, the ship began to plummet towards the nearest planet. Fry managed to jettison most of the ship before Owens stopped her, and the vessel, somewhat lighter and more controllable, was able to effect a crash landing which ended in a heated impact and a miles-long skid to a rough stop in the middle of the desert.

Trivia[]

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The Hunter Gratzner model.

  • The ship is like a towing vehicle, delivering different containers and passengers to different locations.
  • Riddick described the trip as the Backroads, or a Ghost lane and "A long time between stops, a long time for something to go wrong". Paris P. Ogilvie called it traveling Coach.
  • The ship was 22 weeks into its trip and 19 weeks from arrival, when it crashed. The trips total time was 41 weeks (over 9 months) of travel.
  • An onboard computer system is somewhat present, aiding Fry in the crash and also choosing the planet for its oxygen information.
  • There were four crew members.[1]
  • There were 40 Cryosleep Lockers onboard.
    Hunter Gratzner Concept

    Concept Art

  • Only 11 passengers and 2 crew members survived the crash. The survivors (in order of deaths) are Greg Owens, Total Stranger, John Ezekiel, Ali, Sharon Montgomery, Hassan, Paris P. Ogilvie, William J. Johns, Suleiman and Carolyn Fry. Only Abu al-Walid, Jack B. Badd and Richard B. Riddick survived getting off world.
  • The ship runs on at least 10, 20-gig power cells, capable of being used on other vessels. Weighing thirty-five kilos (over 77 pounds) each.
  • The ship is named after two of its creators Ian Hunter and Matthew Gratzner.[2]

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