Draft Imperial 10000ton Fleet Escort

Draft Imperial 10000ton Fleet Escort (Military Starship)

The Metlay class fleet escort was designed by the Imperial Navy's own Bureau of Ships in 872. With Jump-4 capability, the Metlay is still capable of performing valuable work for the Imperial Navy, although most new construction is for frontier planetary navies. Members of the class are traditionally named after posthumous winners of the Imperial Navy's Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry. Normal operation of the vessel (full maneuver power and life support) requires 66% of the power plant capacity, and the rated endurance shown below is based on this figure.

his draft design was produced on 29 September 1990. In order to fit the desired main armament of a meson gun bay, it is necessary to have a power plant roughly twice as large as the maneuver/life support requirement. Endurance given below is for no combat use of power. Combat power consumes 2 days of non-combat power per day. Basically, this was designed backwards from the TL15 version, the main difference being the large increase in power plant size needed at TL14, and corresponding changes in fuel capacity. To keep the fuel capacity at over 30 days at running power, it was necessary to trim the fuel purifier back to 18 hour capability.

CraftID: Imperial Fleet Escort, 10000 tons, TL14, MCr8291
Hull: 9000/22500, Disp=10000t, Config=1SL, Armor=52G, Loaded=175756t, Unloaded=169926t
Power: 1267/2534, Fusion=171000MW, Duration=35/105
Loco: 990/1980, Maneuver=4 (Thrusters=715kt), 450/900, Jump=4, TrueAcc=4.07G, Cruise=750kph, Max=1000kph, Agility=4
Comm: Radio=System*3, Laser=System*3, Maser=System*3
Sensors: EMS Active(FarOrbit)*3, EMS Jammer (FarOrbit)*3, EMS Passive(Interstellar)*3, Neutrino Sensor (10kw)*3, High Pen Densitometer (250m)*3, ActObjScan=Rout, ActObjPin=Rout, PassObjScan=Rout, PassObjPin=Rout, PassEnScan=Simp, PassEnPin=Rout
Off:
Hardpoints=100 MesonGun=05x Missile=x90 BeamLaser=xx9 Batteries 1 4 1 Bearing 1 4 1
Def:
DefDM+11, Meson Screen-6*2, Nuclear Damper-6*2 SandCaster=x09 Batteries 4 Bearing 4
Control: Computer Mod8fib*3, 4*LargeHoloDisplay, 25*HeadsUpHoloDisplay, 670*HoloLink
Accom: Crew=107 (12 bridge, 23 engineer, 5 maintenance, 51 gunners, 3 flight, 11 command, 2 medical), Staterooms=54, Env=basic env, basic ls, extended ls, grav plates, inertial comp
Other: Fuel=73842kl (1 jump-4+35 days), Cargo=0, Missile Magazine=500kl (50b-r), Fuel Scoops, Fuel Purifier (18hr), SubCraft=1*Pinnace,

CraftID:	Imperial Fleet Escort, 10000 tons, TL14, MCr8291
Hull:	9000/22500, Disp=10000t, Config=1SL, Armor=52G, Loaded=175756t, Unloaded=169926t
Power:	1267/2534, Fusion=171000MW, Duration=35/105
Loco:	990/1980, Maneuver=4 (Thrusters=715kt), 450/900, Jump=4, TrueAcc=4.07G, Cruise=750kph, Max=1000kph, Agility=4
Comm:	Radio=System3, Laser=System3, Maser=System*3
Sensors:	EMS Active(FarOrbit)3, EMS Jammer (FarOrbit)3, EMS Passive(Interstellar)3, Neutrino Sensor (10kw)3, High Pen Densitometer (250m)*3, ActObjScan=Rout, ActObjPin=Rout, PassObjScan=Rout, PassObjPin=Rout, PassEnScan=Simp, PassEnPin=Rout
Off:	Hardpoints=100 MesonGun=05x Missile=x90 BeamLaser=xx9 Batteries 1 4 1 Bearing 1 4 1
Def:	DefDM+11, Meson Screen-62, Nuclear Damper-62 SandCaster=x09 Batteries 4 Bearing 4
Control:	Computer Mod8fib3, 4LargeHoloDisplay, 25HeadsUpHoloDisplay, 670HoloLink
Accom:	Crew=107 (12 bridge, 23 engineer, 5 maintenance, 51 gunners, 3 flight, 11 command, 2 medical), Staterooms=54, Env=basic env, basic ls, extended ls, grav plates, inertial comp
Other:	Fuel=73842kl (1 jump-4+35 days), Cargo=0, Missile Magazine=500kl (50b-r), Fuel Scoops, Fuel Purifier (18hr), SubCraft=1*Pinnace,

Author: R.S.Dean