The I.M.V. Lucky Credit was designed by Ashley Minkhaus, a freelance starship architech.

Her original name: Silent Wave

She was built at the: Patinir Freeport Shipyards of Blackmoor Heavy Industries.

On date: 1093-114

She was ordered by Frakin Ushuug, a corporate junior executive who wanted a ship to use for transporting the entertainment musical band: Sonic Illness.

The vessel was purchased by proceeds from the band's latest release, "Fire-Water-Love: A Hydro-Dissonance Experiment", and used for two performance tours in both Core and the Spinward Marches.

Vessel Class and Designer Notes

Ashley Minkhaus was the original architect that designed the first Acipiter Class ship, the "Goshawk", as a complete custom order for a man named David Phoenecius.  This was a keel-up custom designed yacht.  A year later, the design was bought out completely from the architect for production by Phoenecius' newly formed Blackmoor Heavy Industries company in the Patinir belt in the Aramis subsector. Minkhaus was later employed by BHI, and remains in their service as head architect.  The Acipiter class went into limited production at the BHI yards, with the primary clients being the local wealthy elite of the Aramis, Regina, and Rhylanor subsectors of the Spinward Marches, and even as far as the edges of the Deneb Sector.  After 90% of the initial deliveries were made, BHI started creating multiple classes of ships using the same hull outline as the Acipiter, with varying attributes.  The Lucky Credit is a Khanushu Class vessel.

KNOWN variants produced to date include the following:

1.Acipiter Class - Technically classified as an armored merchant, in reality the ship tends to serve as an adventurer's yacht by their owners.  Main selling points are; very high armor values, with all major compartments being armored to compartmentalize internal damage; extensive sensor suite and very powerful computers; extensive stealth modifications of engines and ship's components making her very hard to "see"; two LARGE & powerful custom laser turrets; high AV rated sandcaster; 3 decoy drones; 6.5G loaded acceleration; and Jump3.  Without highly speculative cargo, the ship cannot turn a profit.

2.Khanushu Class - Classified as a gunned merchant, it drops the power of the lasers, but adds two more turrets making a total of four laser turrets.  It also adds 3 more sandcasters, making it very effective in screening laser fire.  While not as armored, and much slower at 2.4G loaded and Jump2, the ship will positively return good profit for a merchant without having to branch heavily into speculative cargo.  Noble customers were not amused when the Khanushu was released as their hull outlines were no longer unique to a luxury class.  Some clients have come to realise that this is actually a blessing in disguise.

3.Kukimma Class - Classified as a hardened yacht, the Kukimma Class of the Acipiter Family is even more formidable than the Acipiter Class, boasting TWICE as much armor as the original Acipiter, and many other small improvements.  Since it is classified as a yacht, the accommodations are outstanding and often extravagantly tailored for the individual purchaser, but this coupled with the armor cause cargo space to suffer.

4.Darasha Class - Little is known about the Darasha by the outside public.  However, unconfirmed reports by several independent sensor technicians have placed the Darasha at over 7G's during high speed in-system runs.  The sensor logs from each of these reports have mysteriously disappeared shortly after the claims were made.  BHI executives have maintained a strict "No Comment" regarding anything to do with the Darasha.  Even the name of the class was unknown until it was leaked from a secretive source just recently.  Other capabilities of the ship are unknown at this time, but rumors persist that BHI is useing some or all components at TL16 or more.  The more conspiracy minded e-zines are often putting the TL at the 17 or 18 mark.

With BHI's past secrecy regarding ship and component's design, it is more than likely that other discreet classes exist, in addition to the normal modification variants that tend to appear with any given ship design.