From my Neu Samara campaign in Hanstone sector. My players will likely discover this monster's being built as part of the Tokarev Initiative this weekend. While this ship is mostly for background color, ideas for adventures include being asked as part of the shakedown run to the moon, the first far gas-giant cruise mission, or using their tech 11 boat to intercept and deliver the Director or somesuch for a short visit before ferrying him back to the mainworld (3g constant accel has its advantages.)

Fully loaded with a small space station assembly (200-400 tons, plus small craft), the Ivan can run to the outermost gas giant in the Neu Samara system (5.2 AU from the mainworld's .4 AU) in between 24.6 and 26.6 days.

Note lack of gplates/inertial compensators - at .0634, your average crewman's only going to weigh about 10 pounds most of the voyage, except at endpoints and turnarounds where he'll weigh considerably less.

Speech delivered by Executive Director Andrei Tokarev on the 10th anniversary of his regime's election:

“Dear friends, comrades, countrymen,
Fifty eight Terran years have passed since our forbears first walked these lands, intent on carrying the Russian and Eastern European values, arts, and traditions from Earth, now forgotten or going ‘out of vogue on that distant world to this world, our home, Neu Samara, to flourish and remain with us, in hearts and in our homes.

Fifty eight years, and we've not forgotten. But neither have we changed much. We've lost some of what we knew when we came here, stored that knowledge in data bases until at some future point we might need it again. Our life here is easy, idyllic – not without its perils and excitement, but for the most part, the most peaceful stretch of existence in human history has been here, on our world, something that our homeworld can't boast to, even now, with their problems coreward.

Peace, but peace can breed complacency, and that can leave us unprepared for whatever challenges that Neu Samara will, inevitably have, hopefully sometime in the far, far future. It is with this in mind that with my tenure, I am pleased to lead us into a future where we no longer cling to the distant trade of worlds no longer culturally important to us, striking out to our nearest stellar neighbors, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

I hereby issue a challenge, a challenge to myself, to industry, and especially to all proud Neu Samarrans everywhere, because I know you’re up to it. We will go to the gas giants, to the moons, colonizing every corner of this solar system, and Neu Mirny, and our other neighbor systems. Yes, I know, we can do that already with the colony ships and traders we've since purchased. No, what I propose is that we catch up, we regain the ability to reach the stars on our own accord. The industries, technologies, the infrastructure, will be the pride in of science and our industry. Where we now have to rely on technology little understood, imported from Earth, our children and grandchildren will make with their own hands.

Where we look to the next valley or mountain ridge to find our fortunes, our great grandchildren will leap between the stars, and seek whole new worlds to carry our legacy to. And eventually come back home, trade with Neu Samara, opening up more than industry, but markets, prosperity, and all the wealth that new and alien worlds can offer.

In our own cluster alone, the opportunities abound. These stars are rich, if not with air and animals, water and land, then with precious metals, ore, the necessities of industry. There are resources there, that can be brought –here-, preserving our pristine, unique and beautiful world as we develop it aesthetically for our future generations. We have our Swifts and our wonderful ship, the Prokofiev, to help, but they are not enough, and without the infrastructure to maintain them, will only last into the next generation at best – They are cherished icons, important in our history, but it is nearing the time when they will have to let newer, younger generations of Starships take their place, this time with their builders at the helm.

Thankyou for your ears, comrades; we Neu Samarans are a thoughtful and attentive people.

Thankyou for your hearts, comrades; we Neu Samarans have been proud and bold to do the impossible, repeatedly, without complaint or hesitation.

Thankyou for your insights, comrades; we Neu Samarans will have need of them in the bright future I am so humbly proud to be a small part of.

Prinyat’ zvezd tovarishchi,
Goodnight