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Text replacement - "Merchant" to "Merchant"

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The '''''Rana''''' was a ''[[Merchant (JumpShip class)|Merchant]]''-class [[JumpShip]] with some customized features. Its forward cargo hold had been turned into a passenger section with fifteen cabins and two mess rooms.<ref>''Gier'', p. 8</ref> The bridge had a nonstandard layout, with its three stations (Captain, navigator and pilot) spaced evenly along the round wall, 120° from each other.<ref>''Gier'', p. 11</ref>

It is implied, though not outright stated, that the ''Rana'' was operated by "Milkway Travels."<ref>''Gier'', p. 7: The epigraph to the first chapter (where the collision between the ''Rana'' and the ''Diver'' occurs) features an ad by Milkway Travels claiming that traveling on their JumpShips would be safer than walking across a street.</ref>

==Canonicity==
The ''Rana'' only features in the German novel ''[[Gier]]'' which, being a German-language publication that was not translated into English so far, does not meet the current criteria for [[canonical]] [[BattleTech]] products and must thus be considered [[apocryphal]]. As a consequence, the ''Rana'' and all information about it are apocryphal as well.

==History==
[[Richard Humphreys (31st c.)|Richard Humphreys]] traveled to [[Canopus]] aboard the ''Rana''. Although he apparently arrived at the JumpShip with the ''[[Monarch]]''-class passenger [[DropShip]] ''[[Baroness (Individual Monarch-class DropShip)|Baroness]]'' he then booked a cabin aboard the JumpShip to escape attention to his person during the voyage. Another cabin was taken by Madame Carous, a singer who would perform at the party where Richard first met [[Emma Centrella]].<ref>''Gier'', pp. 8–9</ref>

The ''Rana'', under captain Guerro, jumped to the Canopus system's nadir [[jump point]] on 13 September [[3029]] with the ''Baroness'' and an unnamed ''[[Buccaneer (DropShip class)|Buccaneer]]''-class DropShip. Upon materializing, it immediately collided with another JumpShip, the ''[[Invader]]''-class ''[[Diver]]''. Although both JumpShips were fused together and (at least) three techs were killed, Richard Humphreys saved the day by taking command together with the ship's navigator when the captain and the pilot panicked. Captain Guerro wanted to use the ship's weak anti-meteorite lasers to cut it loose from the ''Diver'', but Humphreys suggested using the ''Baroness''' attitude thrusters instead to impart thrust on the stricken ''Rana'' and counter the drift that threatened to break both JumpShips apart.<ref>''Gier'', pp. 7–17</ref>

The ''Buccaneer'' had undocked (without permission) under its own power after the collision, causing more damage.<ref>''Gier'', p. 14</ref> This was in violation of the spaceflight regulations, and was thought to incur a hefty penalty fee.<ref>''Gier'', p. 23</ref>

It was later mentioned that Humphreys had saved invaluable technology, suggesting that the ship's [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive]] had not been damaged in the accident; both the ''Rana'' and the ''Diver'' were thought to require only a few weeks of repairs in dock, exchanging a cargo section and the [[jump sail]] storage, respectively.<ref>''Gier'', p. 22</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Gier]]''

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