USS Robert Koch





USS Robert Koch



4500 m Hospital Ship – Mercy Class

The 7th ship carrying the name of this Pre Astro Earth scientist.[1]

The USS Robert Koch is the first of this latest class of hospital ships. Keel laid in 5030 at Ross Torus. This spherical ship is built from the ground up as a hospital ship and equipped to handle global epidemics and planet wide assistance in an emergency.

The Union has three services that use Hospital ships. There is the Union Fire Department that has hospital ships on permanent loan from the fleet, and they are used exclusively for inter-union purpose. The Union Fleet has hospital ships attached to fleets to render aid to military casualties. And then there are Hospital ships under the authority of the Science Council (operated by the fleet).

These ships render aid to Union and non union species alike and also conduct medical research.

The Robert Koch is of the latter kind, and currently operates in the Leo II galaxy ( under the Aid and Mercy doctrine).

The Robert Koch was the first armed Hospital ship, while no Hospital ship operating in the M-0 Galaxy is armed and can be fairly certain that even societies unfriendly to the Union would in general not dare to attack a Union Hospital ship (risking angering not only the Union but many independent and even hostile societies )

But the Robert Koch and her sister ships[2] operate in other galaxies where the Union is mostly unknown.

The weapons are only meant for defensive purposes. She has only sixteen Loki torpedo tubes and five FTL Nul based Froth Casters.

She has no attack craft or fighters, but her shields are of Battleship strength and so is her armor.

She received new upgraded Attikan- Isah pods and is quite fast. (880 km/sec)

The Robert Koch was designed to provide aide and medical services to a wide variety of lifeforms, and is equipped to do this for 98 percent of all Union members. There are a few species that either do not require medical aid or no technology exists to render such aid.

[1] Robert Koch

[2] USS Nightingale,  USS Maurice Bouvier, USS Nutha, USS Pasteur, USS Hindaluk