Dual Occupant Boarding Vehicle

DOBV

The Dual Occupant Boarding Vehicle, often abbreviated as DOBV or called the Boarder, is a small vehicle carried aboard starships. Fired from standard SOEIV launch tubes, the DOBV only travels with the help of the suction of entering a vacuum. Approximately eleven seconds before contact with the target, which would be either an enemy ship or station, a strong thruster ignites and accelerates the craft extremely quickly. This, combined with the pointed nose of the craft, will allow the Boarder to break through the target's hull, sometimes through multiple decks if it makes contact on the targets dorsal side or underside. After a few seconds, three sides of the DOBV will fall off in dozens of pieces. If each side came off in one piece like a SOEIV, something blocking the door (ex. part of a corridor wall) would prevent the two passengers from escaping, rendering the operation useless. With small pieces making up each side, if half of them are blocked, the occupants can still squeeze out, and if three quarters or so are blocked, they can just be shattered. Two drawbacks of the craft, however, is that the interior is quite cramped and some DOBV's may awkwardly land in the target ship, completely disallowing exit of the craft without outside aid, though the onboard A.I. will almost always prevent this with the help of an uploaded schematic of the ship, if available.