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TL F Planet Heavy Cruiser
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:36:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Alvin Plummer <alvin.plummer@sheridanc.on.ca>
Subject: TL F Planet Heavy Cruiser
NOTE: the 'Planet' class heavy cruser is the same ship as the 'Mercury'
in Battle Rider, and the 'Ghalalk' in Classic Trav's supplement 'Fighting
Ships'. The 'Planet' name was used in Mega Trav's _Rebellion Sourcebook_.
The Planet is a somewhat atypical TL F heavy cruser. While maintaining the
typical 27,000 Mj gun of ship's in it's class, it's jump5 capasity gives
it rather longer reach than most vessels in it's class. Also note it's
4-G max speed, a weakness that becomes quite costly in the heat of major
naval actions.
As a Naval ship, it's best employed as the 'big gun' of scouting parties
and unexpected rading parties: there, it's jump5 capasity is used to the
max while the less-than-max opposition allows it to 'get away with it's poor
maneuverability.
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Major differences between the Planet class ship here and the Battle Rider
Mercury vessel basically revolves around the slightly weakened spinal gun
and the drastically weakened meson screen. For every ship built, the
meson screen is far below the BR level, due to the volume the screen demands.
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Brilliant Lances Statistic's
TL F Planet Heavy Cruser
Disp 49 000 Armour 600
Len 317.9 m Volume 686 000 kl
Price 28228.221 MCr Target L
Config Slab SL Tech F
Mass 495 990/463 894
Power Plant Fusion 116 000 MW, 1 yr duration
(300 MW/Hit, 19 MW shortfall)
Jump 5 (205 800 kl of fuel)
G-rating 4 (25 000 MW/G)
G-turns 30.8 G-hours (64.1 G-hrs w/jfuel), 6 182 kl each
Maint 15 772
Computer 3 x TL F fb (1.1 MW ea)
Commo 3 x Radio 1000 AU (20.0 MW ea)
3 x Laser 1000 AU ( .3 MW ea)
3 x Maser 1000 AU ( .6 MW ea)
1 x Meson 10 hex ( 3.0 MW ea)
Avionics TL A+
Sensors 3 x P-EMS folding ( 8 hex, .3 MW ea)
3 x A-EMS (16 hex, 25.0 MW ea)
20 x Ladar (10 hes, 2.5 MW ea)
ECM/ECCM 3 x A-EMS jammer (16 hex, 50.0 MW ea)
EM Masking (686 MW)
Controls Bridge x 2568, Engineer x 776
Offensive TL F 27 000 Mj Spinal Meson, -2 Dif
(Loc: Spinal, Arc:1, 7500 MW, 171 Crew)
Defensive 352 MW TL F Meson Screen
(PV+750, Crew 11)
At Loc: 1 10 x Missile Barbettes
(.15 MW, 0 Crew* ea)
25 x TL F 150 Mj Laset Turrent, -2 Diff
(Arc: 1-2, 42 Mw, 0 Crew* ea)
25 x TL F Sandcasters
(Arc: 1-2, 1 MW, 1 Crew ea, 2D10x5 per hit, 50 C)
5 x TL F N. Dampers
(Arc: 1-2, 1 hex range, 3 MW, 1 Crew ea)
At Loc: 10 As above, but all Arc:All
At Loc: 11 As Above, but all Arc:All
MFD's 30 x TL F Msl/Beam (-6 Dif, 10 hex, 10 hex, 1.7 Mw, 1 Crew ea)
78 x TL F Beam (-6 Dif, 10 hex, 1.6 MW, 1 Crew ea)
-2 Dif 27 000 Mj Spinal Meson 10:821 20:520 40:260 80:131
-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 (137 MW)
ArtiGrav (6 476 MW)
Crew 1876
Engineering 776 Maint 89
Electrical 14 Stewards 63
Maneuver 4 Command 458 Flight 18
Gunnery 380 Troops 76 Medical 15
Accomo
Sm. Strooms x 230 (double: .0005 MW ea)
Lg. Strooms x 121 (quad @ 3 shifts: .001 MW ea)
Other Facilities
3 x Electrical Shops (.6 Mw ea), 3 x Mechanical Shops (1.0 Mw ea),
3 x Sickbay (.8 Mw ea)
Small Craft & Launch Facilities
Spacious Hangar for 3 x 30 Disp ship's boats, 1 x 50 Disp mod. cutter,
1 x 10 Disp Skill, 4 x 15 Disp fighters
Can launch all fighters in 1 turn
No Cargo
Airlocks: 490
Bridge, Aux Brige, Fire Control Centre
Fuel Scoops: jfuel in 3 hr 45 min, all fuel in 7 hr 25 min
Fuel Purif: jfuel in 12 hr, all fuel in 23 hr 50 min
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Surface Area
1 1-7 Airlock
8 Launch Port
2 Launch Port
4-5 1-16 Antenna
6-9 1-12 EMMR
10-16 Meson Screen
Damage Area in all areas, 1-2 = Spinal Meson
1 3-18 Weapon
19-20 Elect
2 3-20 Hold
3 3-20 Quarters
4-5 3-8 Quarters
9-17 Elect
18-20 Hold
6-9 3-20 Hold
10-11 3-4 Weapons
5-20 Hold
12-16 3-20 Hold
17-19 4-13 Engineering
14-20 Hold
20 3-20 Hold
System Damage
Electronics
3 x Laser, Maser, Radar, Ladar (1h) Ant (1h) ea.
3 x P-EMS (2h) 2H ea.
3 x A-EMS, A-EMS jammer (2h) ea.
Meson Commo 3H (1h) ea.
EMM 67H (686h)
Meson Screen 53H
Hold
Hangar 24H
10 x Mech Shop, 10 x Elect Shop 1H ea.
Quarters
Sm. Stroom x 230 (2h) ea.
Lg. Stroom x 121 1H ea.
ArtiGrav 137H
Life Support 1 226H
Emerg. Life Support 673H
Weapons
Spinal Meson 610H
Laser Turrent x 75 1H ea.
Sandcaster Turrent x 75 1H ea.
Nuclear Dampers Turrent x 15 1H ea.
Missile Barbettes x 30 1H ea.
Engineering
Jump Drive 823H
HEPlaR 100H
Power Plant 388H
Fuel Purif 412H
NOTE: asterisks after some crew numbers means that these positions *can*
be manned in lieu of the MFD stations.
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Battle Rider Statstic's
CA Planet
M(-2)10:11-10-7-4 -3
- TL F
- FC: -6
L(x25-2)10:1 M:30(150)
A:16 [P:8] J:16 Msk (SP) J5 G4
AV:10 AuxB !
MS:11 SC:25 D:5 105
! 4 fighters
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Alvin Plummer
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