Re: Naval vessels

Hans Rancke-Madsen writes:

>>Nonetheless, this is MT's picture.  Try FFW (Fifth Frontier War)
>>sometime.  Imperial ships DON'T fight that far from their bases.

>Except when GDW conviniently forgets that and lets Terran Confederation
>fleets penetrate to Vland and Aslan ihatei attack Aki. Naval ships don't
>_like_ to fight far from a base  -  who would  -  but it's not unreasonable
>to suppose that the various admiralties would plan for it.

Why not bring you base along with you?  It wouldn't be too hard to design
a large hull with a jump drive and lots of storage space.

As a first attempt how is the following:


CraftID: Fleet Tender, Type TF  TL=F (High Stellar), MCr213018
Hull:     900000/2250000, Disp=1000000, Config=7US, Armour=40G,
	  Unloaded=3001570, Loaded=3296788 (fuel only)
Power:    8667/17334, Fusion=2340000Mw, Duration=30/90
Loco:     18000/36000, Maneuver=1 (anti-grav), 45000/90000, Jump=4,
	  NOE=190, Cruise=900, Top=1200kph (vacuum only),
	  Agility=0
Commo:    Meson=System(x3), Radio=System(x3), Maser=System(x3)
Sensors:  PassiveEMS=Interstellar(x3), ActiveEMS=Far Orbit(x3),
	  Neutrino=10kw(x3), Densitometer=HighPen/1km(x3)
	  ActObjScan=Routine, ActObjPin=Routine,
	  PasObjScan=Routine, PasObjPin=Routine,
	  PasEngScan=Simple, PasEngPin=Routine
Def:      DefDM=7
Control:  Computer=9x3, Panel=Holographic Linked(x140000),
	  Special=Large Holodisplay(x3), Heads-up Holodisplay(x300)
	  Environ=basic env, basic ls, extended ls, grav plates, inertial comp
Accom:    Crew=822, Staterooms=425 (doubles)
Other:    Cargo=7872200kL, Fuel=842400kL (power plant)  3375000kL (jump drive),
	  ObjSize=Large, EmLevel=Strong

The ship is capable of carrying a 500000 Ton ship as cargo when the carge hold
is close to empty.  However during normal operations, a ship such as this
will carry replacement parts and tools necessary for the maintainence and minor
repairs of combat ships.

Anybody care to suggest how many tons of ship this tender would be able to
field supply?  My personal feel is not much (2 Megatons or less).  This
type of ship would be a nice juicy target in combat since without it the
entire dependent fleet is going to have troubles.

This doesn't solve the problem of where to maintain the tender.  Maybe they
could be sent forward and then effectively left in a know location never to
move again (well not quite never but not for a while).  It could exist as
a mobile supply centre of sorts.





        						Pauli

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