From: [email removed] (Stephen D Smith)
Organization: personal mailbox at The Next Challenge
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Scott is in the processing of moving so his access is
even more limited. His previously given address and
phone will be of dubious use, depending on the US Snail.
Anyone wishing to contact him should leave a message
with me and I'll forward it to him.
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Dreadnaught TL 15, "Tigress" Class
CraftID: Dreadnaught Type BB, TL 15, MCr 665803.5
Hull: (450000/1125000) Disp=500000 Config=5SL, Armor=85G,
Unload=15243147, Load=15730390
Power: (57484/76646) 10347030 Mw Fusion, Dur=30 @ low power (no
offensive wpns except BLasers, Agility=0) Combat power
consumes 2 days reduced fuel per day)
Loco: (114750/153000), Manuver=6G, (33750/45000) Jump=4,
Agility=1, NOE=190, Cruise=750kph, Top=1000kph,
Commo: Radio=System*50, Maser=System*50, Meson=System,
RadioJam=System
Sensors: EMM, P-EMS=Interstel*3, A-EMS=FarOrb*3,
Densitometer=1km*3, Neutrino=10kw*3, EMS-Jam=FarOrb*3
ActObjScn=Rout ActObjPin=Rout
PasObjScn=Rout PasObjPin=Rout
PasEnScn=Simp PasEnPin=Rout
Off: HPoints=5000
Meson Gun=T0x Missile=x90 ParticleAcc=x70
Batt 1 215 5
Bear 1 430 10
BLasers=x09 FGun=x06
Batt 5 25
Bear 10 50
Def: DefDM=+8 Meson Scn-7, NucDamp-9,
SCaster=x04 Repulsor=x09
Batt 5 11
Bear 10 22
Control: Computer=9fib*3, LrgHoloDisp=138, HoloHUD=3042,
HoloLink=3042, Electronic Circuit Protect
Accom: Crew=3648 7*500 (Command=499, Bridge=120, Engineer=752,
Gunner=68, Flight=900, Maintain=1157, Medic=30,
Steward=122) Env=Basic Env, Basic is, Extend is, Inertial
Comp, Grav Plate, Subcraft=50 ton*600, Launch Tube*3
Other: Cargo=898.3, Magazine=364425Kl (341batt-rnds) Batt
Rnd=10750 missiles, Fuel=3301636l, KScoops, Fuel
Pure=72hr, Cargo=1030.8Kl ObjSize=Lrg, EMlevel=Mod
Remarks: "Although some older battleships of greater displacement
remain in service, the 'Tigress' class dreadnaught is the largest
line-of-battle vessel currently in service with the Imperial Navy
in the Spinward Marches. Each BatRon of 'Tigress' class vessels
is virtually a fleet unto itself, as each ship carries thirty
squadrons of heavy fighters (with ten FHs per squadron). A BatRon
of eight ships carries 2,400 heay fighters.
At present, only one 'Tigress' class BatRon is deployed in the
Spinward Marches, assigned to the 212th Fleet, at Rhylanor.
Additional 'Tigress' class BatRons are generally assigned one per
sector.
Deployment: In war, the ideal deployment of any BatRon is
together, as a unit. In peace, various 'Tigress'es are often
scattered throughout a region on peacekeeping missions, or to show
the flag. Several individual 'Tigress'es have been deployed among
the worlds of the Five Sisters subsector to enforce the amber zone
blockade of Candory and Andor.
Similarly, 'Pantheress' was dispatched (much to the chagrin of
the Zhodani government) to recieve the body of the Imperial
Ambassador to Chronor upon her assassination in 1104. Given the
circumstances of her death, it was difficult for the Consulate to
object. The ship's weaponry was ceremonially sealed, but that
would mean little in an actual fight. Imperial newstapes treated
it as a propaganda coup for months.
Construction: The 'Tigress' class is produced using an armored
spherical hull with the single spinal meson gun mounted centrally.
A large armored port protects the gun during non-combat operations;
the port itself contains the focussing equipment for the weapon
beam.
Within the sphere, layered decks hold the various on-ship
functions such as quarters, computer and electronic equipment, fuel
treatment, and maintainance areas. Appended to the back of the
sphere is a large heavy fighter launch and recovery installation.
Fighters are launched to the rear, to starboard, and recovered from
the rear, to port; this arrangement prevents them from entering the
meson beam when it is in use, as well as providing some armored
bulk between the fighters and the enemy."
-Supplement 9: Fighting Ships
Somebody was dispairing that the 'Tigress' class wasn't redone
for Shattered Ships of the Squabbling Imperium so I took a whack
at it.
Original High Guard Design by Tim Brown, Frank Chadwick & Marc
Miller
Reprinted without permission (Hold your fire!)
Scott Kellogg
via Stephen D Smith USENET: [email removed]
BIX: sdsmith
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