Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 21:22:26 -0700 From: goldendj@deltanet.com (David J. Golden) Subject: Frigate Design, corrected Just found a typo under Defenses: the Sandcaster Turrets are crewed, as is the meson screen generator. Here's the corrected stats. Also, several weeks ago somebody asked for an example of how the damage tables are constructed. I recorded exactly how I went about doing it here, so if you'll e-mail me, I can give you one example. ==================================== "Bulldog" class 1000T Frigate, TL-12 ==================================== General Data ------------ Displacement: 1000 TD Hull Armor: 500 Length: 30.0 m Volume: 14,000 m3 Price: MCr1,129.793 Target Size: M Config: Sphere Tech Level: 12 Mass: 28,353t (loaded), 27,618t (empty) Engineering Data ---------------- Power Plant: 3367MW Fusion Plant (50 MW/hit), 0.25 year duration, 0.59 MW excess power Jump Performance: 2 (2100 m3 fuel) G-Rating: 6G (500 MW/G) G-Turns: 40 (+33.6 using jump fuel), 62.5 m3 each. Maint: 659 Fuel: Jump 2100m3; reaction mass 2500m3; power plant 126.038m3 Electronics Data ---------------- Computer: 3xTL-12 Mod Fb Computer (0.8 MW ea.) Commo: 2x300,000km radio (10 hexes, 10 MW ea), 2x1,000AU km maser (inf, 0.056 MW ea) Sensors: 2xPassive EMS fixed array 120,000km (4 hexes, 0.15 MW), 2xActive EMS 300,000km (10 hexes, 27.5 MW) Controls: Bridge with 28 workstations, plus 39 other workstations ECM/ECCM: EM Masking (14 MW), 300,000km AEMS Jammer (10 hexes, 55 MW), Decoy Dispenser (500 decoys) Armament -------- Offensive: 4x600 Mj Laser (Loc: 10,11; Arcs: All; Crew: 0; 16.667 MW ea), 8xMissile Turret (Loc: 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15; Crew: 0 Missiles: 2 ea., 0.15MW ea., 48 spare missiles in cargo) Defensive: 8x5 Mj Anti-Missile Laser (Loc: 10,11; Arcs: All; Crew: 0; 0.14 MW ea), 8xSandcaster Turret (Loc: 10, 11; Arcs: All; Crew: 1; 1.0 MW ea, Reduc d10x5, 50 cannisters ea.; 120 spare canisters in cargo), TL-12 Meson Screen Generator (PV=225, 40.5MW; Crew: 2) Master Fire Directors: 2xTL-12 Non-Missile (4 Diff Mod, 10 hexes, 2.95 MW, 1 crew each), 4xTL-12 Missile MFDs (4 Diff Mod, 10 Hexes, Msl 10 Hexes, 3.1 MW, 1 crew each), 4xTL-12 Anti-Missile MFDs (4 Diff Mod, 1 Hex, 1.12MW ea., 1 crew ea.) Accomodations ------------- Life Support: Extended (2.8 MW), Gravitic Compensators (3G, 70 MW) Crew: 84 (39xEngineering, 2xManeuver, 3xElectronics, 20xGunnery: MFD/ Sandcasters/ Screens, 7xMaintenance, 11xCommand, 1xSteward, 1xMedical) Crew Accommodations: 5xSmall (Captain, Exec, Medic, Chief Engineer, Maneuver, 0.0005 MW), 79xBunks Passenger Accommodations: none Sick Bays: 1 Cargo: 68.039m3, 1xsmall cargo hatch Small Craft and Launch Facilities: none Airlocks: 10 Notes ----- Fuel scoops (2363m3 per hour = 50% of full load), fuel purification machinery (4.726MW) requires 36 hours for a full load of 4726m3 1) This ship is strictly a military space vessel. While it is streamlined for planetary landings, it does not have contragravity to allow it to hover. It spends as little time in the atmosphere as possible. 2) G-Rating is 6G. TL-12 g-compensators are only good to 3G; however, the thrust axis is aligned with the "up" direction of the ship. Thus, the crew can handle 4G's, and simply feel their own weight. At 5G's, crew in workstations are unaffected, and others (damage control), suffer +1 DiffMod. At 6Gs, workstation crew are at +1 and others are at +2. 3) The only deviations from the "standard" design sequence are: * I adopted the TL*50 limit on laser energy from the TML * I didn't understand the logic behind forcing bays to specific dimensions, so I ignored that when I designed the lasers * I ignored the requirement to recalculate G-Rating based on mass if the mass was greater than 15t/m3 4) Design dated May 6, 1995 using original version of FF&S (haven't yet applied all of the errata) Weapons Charts -------------- Lasers Power Short Med Long Extr TL-12 5 Mj AML 0.1389 1:1/2-6 2: 1-3 4:Nil-1 -- TL-12 600Mj Laser 16.6667 10:1/20-61 20:1/20-61 40:1/20-61 80:1/10-31 Sandcaster Power Canisters Reduction TL-12 Sandcaster 1 MW 30 1d10x5 Missiles G-Turns Hits Damage Comm Sensor Sigs TL-11 Controlled 6/6 1d6 1/18-55 10L +2/+2/+2/+2/+1 TL-12 Semi-Ind 4/4 1d6 1/25-80 10L 1P +4/+3/+4/+3/+1 JD 13H MD 3H PP 68H FPP 6H LT 4H AML (1h) Sand 1H MT 1H Std MFD 1H Mis MFD 1H AML MFD (1h) Meson Screen 6H AEMS (2h) EMS Jam (2h) EMM 2H EMMR (14h) LS 104H ELS 52H AG 3H LSR 1H SSR (2h) Sickbay 1H Area Surface Hits Internal Explosion 1 1-13 Elec, 14-20 Hold 2-5 1-5 Ant 1-5 Elec, 6-20 Hold 6-7 1-2 MT, 3-11 Hold, 12-20 Qtrs 8-9 1 CH 1 MT, 2-7 Hold, 8-17 Elec, 18-20 Qtrs 10 1 Ant 1-5 Sand, 6-15 LT, 16 AML, 17-18 Elec, 19-20 Hold 11 1 Ant 1-5 Sand, 6-15 LT, 16-18 Elec, 19-20 Hold 12-15 1 MT, 2-7 Hold, 8-20 Qtrs 16-19 1-5 EMMR 1-15 Eng, 16-20 Hold 20 1-17 Eng, 18-20 Hold ___________________________________________________________________ Dave Golden | D.GOLDEN@genie.geis.com PGP Public Key available | goldendj@deltanet.com