Advanced Robotic Transport System
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Description[edit]
First developed by the Star League in 2609[1] for their Space Defense System bases, the Advanced Robotic Transport System (or ARTS) allowed drone aerospace fighters to launch, recover, refuel, and rearm themselves.[2] Based on robotic warehouse technology widely used by civilian storage and shipping companies, the ARTS was able to remove humans from the landing bay. Shortly after its introduction in planetside SDS bases, it was installed on the drone WarShips used as the spaceborne component of SDS. Aerospace fighter and small craft bays on WarShips, space stations, and satellites could be equipped with ARTS, allowing the automated bay to function as if it was fully crewed.[2]
Most ARTS were destroyed in the destruction that was part of the Amaris Civil War. The Word of Blake redeployed this system in their Naga SDS control ship and their Tiamat drone Pocket WarShip.[2]