Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 13:13:01 +0100 From: HA282PMR01@ntu.ac.uk (Paul Radford) Subject: Some ship designs Here are a couple of designs I threw togeather a long time ago. As far as I know, they are accurately designed. Tacitus-class System Defence Boat General Data Displacement: 1000 tons Hull Armour: 56 Length: 60 meters Volume: 14,000m3 Price: MCr553.12 Target Size: M Configuration: Cylinder SL Tech Level: 14 Mass(Loaded/Empty): 10363.76/9631.35 Engineering Data Power Plant: 2905MW Fusion Plant (100MW/hit), 1 yr dur. Maneuver Gs: 5G (500 MW/G), Contra-Grav lifters (100MW) G-Turns: 95, 62.5m3 of fuel each Maint: 432 Electronics Computer: 3xTL-14 Model Fb (1MW ea.) Commo: 300,000km radio (10 hexes, 10MW), 2x 1000AU maser (0.6MW) Avionics: TL-8+ Avionics Sensors: Passive EMS folding array 180,000km (6 hexes, 0.2MW), Active EMS 480,000km (16 hexes, 25MW), Ladar 300,000km (10 hexes, 2.5MW) ECM/ECCM: EM Masking (MW) Controls: Bridge with 16xBridge Workstations, plus 24 other workstations Armament Offensive: 2 x TL-14 1500-Mj Particle Accelerators (Loc: Spinal; Arcs: 1; 41.7 MW ea.; 2 crew ea.), 4 x TL-14 300-Mj Laser Barbette (Loc: 6,7-Arcs: 2,3,4; Loc:10- Arcs: 2,3,4; Loc: 16-Arcs: 3,4,5; 8.3MW ea.; 1 crew ea.), 2 x Missile Barbette (Loc: 10,11; 5 ready Msls ea.; 0.15 MW; 1 crew ea.; 10 ready Msls total, plus 10 in cargo). Defensive: TL-14 Meson Screen Generator (PV=157; 10MW; 1 crew) Master Fire Directors: 3 TL-14 MFD (5 Diff Mod; Msl 10 hexes; 10 hexes; 1.77MW; 1 crew) Weapon Short Medium Long Ext 300-Mj Las Brb 10:1/14-45 20:1/14-45 40:1/7-23 80:1/3-10 1500-Mj PA 10:161 20:79 40:40 80:20 Accomodations Life Support: Extended (2.8MW), Grav Compensators (5G; 70MW) Crew: 69 (1x Maneuver, 24x Engineering, 2x Electronics, 14x Gunnery, 3x Maintenance, 4x Flight Crew, 1x Steward, 1x Medical, 10 x Command, 9 x Troops) Crew Accomodations: 11 x Small Stateroom (single occ.), 29 x small stateroom (double occupancy) Cargo: 58.475m3, plus 10 missiles, 1 large cargo hatch Small Craft and Launch Facilities: 2 x Ships Launch with internal hanger (minimal), 2x launch port Air Locks: 10 Notes Fuel scoop, fuel purification plant (14.84MW), 12 hours to refine 5937.5m3 DAMAGE TABLES Area(1D20) Surface Hits Internal Explosion 1 1-8: Ant 1-8: Elec, 9-18: Qtrs, 19-20: Hold 2-3 1-3: Ant 1-8: Elec, 9-18: Qtrs, 19-20: Hold 4-5,8-9 1-3: Ant 1-6: PA, 7-20: Hold 6-7 1: AL 1-2: LB, 3-8: Qtrs, 9-20: Hold 10 1-8: EMMR 1-2: MB, 3-4: LB, 5-20: Hold 11 1-4: PA, 5-6: MB, 7-20: Hold 12-13,17 Hold 14-15 1-6: PA, 7-17: Eng, 18-20: Hold 16 1-2: LB, 3-20: Hold 18-19 1-6: PA, 7-20: Eng 20 Eng Systems MD-3H PP-29H FPP-15H LB-1H MB-1H PA-11H AG-3H CG-2H SSR-(2h) EMM-2H EMMR-(14h) LS-7H ELS-4H MFD-1H PEMS Ant-(4h) AEMS-(2h) Hanger-5H All Others(1h) The Tacitus is an Imperial design widely produced during the 5th Frontier War. It was designed primarily as an export comodity to allow lower tech level worlds to supplement their Shukugan (Dragon) Squadrons. As the Tacitus is designed at TL-14, extensive training and support programs were offered as part of the Tacitus sales package. SDB Tacitus Spinal: P(x2)10:5-2-2-1 Size:-2 - TL-14 - FireControl: -5 Turrets: L(x2)10:2 Missiles: 2(10) Active:16 (Passive:6) Msk (SP) G's:5 AV:2 - MesonScreen:4 PV: 14