>From Janes' fighting Starships 1102 Solomani Sydney class Heavy Cruiser The Sydney class heavy cruiser is a modificaiton of the Scharhorst heavy Cruiser design. The Sydney replaces the Scharorst massive PAW with a meson gun , and improves the ships Meson screens. The Sydney class does not have the fuel shuttle or the fuel purificaiton plant that the Scharhorst has. This was done in order to improve the Sydney's meson gun and Meson screen. Althought d ependent on tankers, and with it limited jump capability, the Sydeny class crui ser can make its presents felt in any fleet action. The first of the Sydeny class cruiser was seen in a small boarder clashbet ween the Solomaniand an Aslan Fleet. Since that time Sydney class cruiser have begun to appear in small numbers throughtout solomani space. There have uncon firmed report that one of the ship yards producting the Sydeny has retooled. Intelligence sources have speculated that this may mean the Sydney class main gun may be soon upgraded to TL-15 standards. SYDNEY CLASS HEAVY CRUISER General Data Displacement: 50000 Hull armor: 280 length: 448 Volume: 700000 Price: 141401.38MCR Target Size: M Configuration: open frame USL Tech LEVEL: 14 Mass (loaded/Unloaded): 834870/800101 ENGINNERING DATA Powerplant: TL-14 132285mw fusion Powerplnat (100.06mw/ per hit), 1 mouth duration Jump Performance: 3 (140000m, for max jump) G-rating: 5g (25000mw per G) G-turns: 50G-turns (100g-turns using jump fuel, 3125m each) Fuel Tanks: 297554m of fuel each maint: 30067 ELECTRONICS Computer: 6xTL-14 Mob Fb Computer (1mw each) commo: 6x maser (**, .6mw each) 2x radio (10hex, 10mw each) Avionics: none Sensors: 2x 240000km folding EMS array (8hex, .3mw each) 2x 180000km fixed EMS array (6hex, .2mw each) 4x 480000km Active EMS array (16hex, 25mw each) 4x 300000km ladar (10hex, 2.5mw each) ecm/eccm: 10hex EMS area Jammer, (10hex, 108mw) emm package (700mw)\ Controls: Bridge with 325 work stations, auxiliary bridgew with 325 work statio ns, flag bridge with 9 workstations, fire control with 20 workatations, 1102 ot her workstations. ARMAMENT Offensive: 1x TL-14 81320 Mj Meson Gun (loc: spine arc:1 mw: crew: 508); 4x 10 ton missles bays ( loc:13,13,14,14, 1mw each) 20x TL-14 150mj Laser turrets (locs: 10 at 13, 10 at 14, arcs: all 42mw each {-2 diff mods} crew none, fired from MFD) Defensive: 50x TL-14 sandcaset turrets (locs: 25 at loc 13, 25 at loc 14; crew: 1 each; MW:1 each 2d6x6 per hit 40 cans each arcs: all) TL-14 810mw meson screen (pv=996); crew 30 Fire directors: 20x TL-15 beam/missle MFD (5 diff mods mls, 10 hex, 1.77mw each 1 crew each) 81320mj Meson Gun 10: 1424 20:712 40: 356 80:178 150mj laser: 2: (1/10)31 4:(1/10)31 8:(1/10)31 10:(1/10)31 ACCOMMODATIONS: Life support: extended (87.75mw); Gravitic compensatort (5g, 2183.75) no life support for fuel tanks CREW: 2720 (1102x eng, 8x electronics, 4x maneuver, 608x gunnery 220x maintenac 651x command, 91x stewards, 27x medical, 9x fleet command) Crew accommodations: 5x large staterooms (single occupnacy, .001mw each,) 5x large staterooms (double occupancy, .001mw each) 308 small staterooms (double occupancy, .0005wm each) 300 small staterooms (multiple ocupancy, .0005wm each) Passager accommodations: none Other facilities: 5x sickbay (.8mw each); 2x machine shops (1mw each) 2x electr onics shops (.6mw each) Cargo: 104m with 5 large cargo harches, plus 50 missiles in storage. small craft and launch facilities: 4x 50 ton launchers, 4x 10 ton launches Airlocks: 500 notes: there is no life support of any of the fuel tnaks the flight crew of the auxiliary ship was done away with by making the stewards fly the support ships . All of the laser turrets can be fired locally but are general only fired fro m the MFDS. SYSTEM HIT CAPCITY: Mesongun: 2231H; Misslebay: 1H;l LT: 1h; MS: 1200H; MD: 124 H; JD: 700H; pp 13222H; pems: 1H; Pemsa: 1H; emm: 70H; emmr: 700h; EMSjammer: 1 H; electronics shop: 1H; AG: 87H; SSr 2h; LLR: 1H; Ls 774H; all other system 1h each. Area surface hit internal explosion 1-2 ant 1-9 MG, 10-17 electroncs, 18-20 quters 3-4 1-14 ant 1-9mg. 10-13 electrons, 14-20 quters- 5-8 ANT 1-10 MG, 11 QUATERS, 12-20 HOLD 9-10 1-11mg, 12-20 HOLD 11-12 1-8mg, 9-20 HOLD 13-14 1-8mg, 9 WEAPONS, 10-13 ENG, 14-20 HOLD 15 1-10MG, 11-15 ENG, 16-20 HOld 16-20 1-19 emmr 1-13MG, 14-20 ENG