Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:37:00 -0500 (EST) From: Alvin Plummer Subject: TL F Rapier Destroyer Escort The Rapier is typically used as convoy escorts and radiers by the Imperial Navy. Among the smallest ships with a 'useful' meson gun, it can also be used to destroy minor vessels of opposing navies, and handily outgun most vessels in the same size range. The major cost is loss of accuracy in the spinal gun: it's simply two power hungry to fire at greater than 10 shot's per turn without powering down other ship's systems. The Rapier is among the larger Navy vessels equipped with a ContraGrav system, allowing it to hide in a world's (or gas giant's) ocean, obtain repairs in ground ports, etc. NOTE: Despite what the Kinunir says (BLances, p. 38), you can't fit a 700 Mj laser in a 84 kl barbette. Thus, it's a 700 Mj Laser *Bay* *****-----***** Brilliant Lances Statistic's TL F Rapier Destroyer Escort Disp 9 000 Armour 500 Len 155 m Volume 126 000 kl Price 6 496.619 MCr Target M Config Wedge SL Tech F Mass 108 312/103 088 Power Plant Fusion 28 380 MW, 1 yr duration (300 MW/Hit, 19 MW shortfall) Jump 4 (31 500 kl of fuel) G-rating 4 ( 5 416 MW/G). CG (900 MW) G-turns 26.9 G-hours (50.1 G-hrs w/jfuel), 1 353 kl each Maint 2 744 Computer 3 x TL F fb (1.1 MW ea) Commo 1 x Radio 1000 AU (20.0 MW ea) 2 x Maser 1000 AU ( .6 MW ea) Avionics TL A+ Sensors 1 x P-EMS folding ( 8 hex, .3 MW ea) 1 x A-EMS (16 hex, 25.0 MW ea) 4 x Ladar (10 hes, 2.5 MW ea) ECM/ECCM 1 x A-EMS jammer (16 hex, 50.0 MW ea) EM Masking (126 MW) Controls Bridge x 100 (1 extra), Engineer x 189 Offensive TL F 10 000 Mj Spinal Meson, (Loc: Spinal, Arc:1, 42 MW, 30 Crew) Defensive 50 MW TL F Meson Screen (PV: 400, Crew 2) At Loc: 6 5 x Missile Barbettes (.15 MW, 0 Crew* ea) 5 x Laser Bay (Arc: 1-3, 19 MW, 0 Crew*) 8 x TL F 150 Mj Laset Turrent, -2 Diff (Arc: 1-3, 42 Mw, 0 Crew* ea) 8 x TL F Sandcasters (Arc: 1-3, 1 MW, 1 Crew ea, 2D10x5 per hit, 50 C) At Loc: 7 As above, but one additional sandcaster MFD's 10 x TL F Msl/Beam (-6 Dif, 10 hex, 10 hex, 1.7 Mw, 1 Crew ea) 33 x TL F Beam (-6 Dif, 10 hex, 1.6 MW, 1 Crew ea) 10 000 Mj Spinal Meson 6:500 12:354 24:250 48:183 -2 Dif 150 Mj Laser Turrent 10:1/10-31 20:1/10-31 40:1/10-31 80:1/10-31 Extended Life Support (25 MW) ArtiGrav (630 MW) Crew 383 Engineering 189 Maint 18 Electrical 1 Stewards 8 Maneuver 2 Command 83 Gunnery 89 Troops 20 Medical 3 Accomo Sm. Strooms x 27 (double: .0005 MW ea) Lg. Strooms x 27 (quad @ 3 shifts: .001 MW ea) Other Facilities 1 x Electrical Shops (.6 Mw ea), 1 x Mechanical Shops (1.0 Mw ea), 1 x Sickbay (.8 Mw ea) Small Craft & Launch Facilities None Cargo: 300 kl, 50 missiles. Tlree large cargo hatches Airlocks: 90 Bridge, Fire Control Centre Fuel Scoops: jfuel in 12 hr 30 min, all fuel in 28 hr Fuel Purif: jfuel in 24 hr, all fuel in 53 hr 50 min *****----- Surface Area 4-5 1-14 Antenna 8-9 1-14 EMMR 10 1-11 Meson Screen 12-15 Airlock Damage Area in all areas, 1-3 = Spinal Meson 1-5 4-8 Elect 9-12 Quarters 13-20 Hold 6-7 4-10 Weapons 11-20 Hold 8-10 4-20 Hold 11 4-20 Eng 12-17 4-20 Hold 18-19 4-15 Engineering 16-20 Hold 20 4-20 Eng System Damage Electronics Laser, Maser,4 x Ladar (1h) Ant (1h) ea. 1 x P-EMS (2h) 2H ea. 1 x A-EMS, A-EMS jammer (2h) ea. EMM 13H (126h) Meson Screen 8H Hold 1 x Mech Shop, 1 x Elect Shop 1H ea. Quarters Sm. Stroom x 27 (2h) ea. Lg. Stroom x 27 1H ea. ArtiGrav 25H Life Support 334H Emerg. Life Support 167H Weapons Spinal Meson 143H Laser Bay x 10 1H ea. Laser Turrent x 10 1H ea. Sandcaster Turrent x 17 1H ea. Missile Barbettes x 10 1H ea. Engineering Jump Drive 126H HEPlaR 25H Power Plant 31H Fuel Purif 18H NOTE: asterisks after some crew numbers means that these positions *can* be manned in lieu of the MFD stations. *****-----***** Battle Rider Statstic's ED Rapier M(-2)10:10-8-7-5 -2 - TL F l(x5)10:2 FC: -6 L(x10-2)10:1 M:10(50) A:16 [P:8] J:16 Msk (SP) J4 G4 AV:10 0 MS:9 SC:7 45