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TL F Rapier Destroyer Escort
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:37:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Alvin Plummer <alvin.plummer@sheridanc.on.ca>
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*
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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
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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.
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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