Alston League Series 200 Gunboat by Antony Farrell" Well I'm a dill, though probably too late now, the original design had the wrong main weapon fitted! which resulted in a ship where although everything fit the ship was grossly overweight, the following corrects this. The Alston League, situated in the Banners Sector has just placed an order for twelve of these boats to supplement the larger system defence boats in the league navy. Built around a 400Mw laser lance and carrying two missile barbettes the gunboat is able to take on a variety of targets, including smaller warships. These vessels are now offered for sale to customers, either built locally at the Alston yards or licence built. Against the typical virus infected ship they are a potent weapon. Built using an airframe hull the gunboats can also be used in a ground attack role where the laser and missiles can be used to good effect. If there is a weakness in the design it is in the armour. In order to fit the large laser many compromises had to be made, these being principally in reduced armour. The lasers rate of fire of 200/30 minutes was also below that originally specified. General Data Displacement: 250 tons Hull Armor: 40 Length: 46.25 meters Volume: 3,500 m3 Price: 229.740794 MCr Target Size: S Configuration: Airframe Wedge Tech Level: 11 Mass (Loaded/Unloaded): 3,707.0522 / 3,490.2917 Engineering Data Power Plant: 751 Mw Fusion Power Plant, 1 year duration (50Mw/hit, 112.65 m3 fuel, 0.9289Mw surplus) Jump Performance: None No CG Lifters G-Rating: 3G HEPlaR (125 MW/G) G-Turns: 84, 15.625 m3 fuel each Maint: 141 Electronics Computer: 2xTL-11 Fibre-optic computer (0.7 Mw each) Commo: 1xMaser (1000 AU; 0.6 MW), Radio (300,000km; 10 Mw) Avionics: TL10+ Flight Avionics, TL11 Terrain Following Avionics Sensors: 300,000km AEMS (10 hex; 60 Mw, DF Capable), 1x90,000km PEMS Fixed array (3 hexes; 0.15 Mw), 1x150,000km PEMS Folding Array (5 hexes; 0.25 Mw), 3xRunning Lights (0.0001 Mw each) ECM/ECCM: EMS Jammer (1 hex;50 Mw), EM Masking (3.5 Mw) Controls: Bridge with 8 bridge workstations, 10 normal workstations Armament Offensive: 1xTL-11 400-MJ Laser Lance (Loc:4/5; Arcs:1 ;222.2223 MW;0 crew) 2xTL-11 Missile Barbette (Loc:14,15; 0.15 Mw each;1 crew each, 5 missiles or recon probes each) 400-MJ Laser Lance Short Medium Long Extreme 10:50-1/16 20:48-1/15 40:24-1/8 80:12-1/4 -3 Difficulty Modifiers Defensive: None Master Fire Directors: 1xTL-11 (3 Diff Mods; Beam 10 hex; 6.22 MW; 1 crew) Accommodations Extended Life Support:(0.7 MW), Gravitic Compensators (2G, 17.5 MW) Crew: 31 (10xEngineer, 2xElectronics, 1xManeuver, 3xGunner, 2xMaintenance, 9xShip's Troops, 4xCommand) Crew Accommodations: 16xSmall Stateroom (0.0005 Mw each) Small Craft and Launch Facilities: None Air Locks: 3 Cargo: None, 47 m3 Notes Total Fuel Tankage: 1425.15 m3 (99.7605 tons), Purification plant purifies total maneuver fuel in 30 hours, Fuel scoops (10% of ship surface), fills tanks in 1 hour. Crew requirements are calculated by using FFS1 Mk 1 Mod 1 crew model. Damage Charts Have not yet had time to finish these. Antony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tne-rces-unsubscribe@silent-tower.org For additional commands, e-mail: tne-rces-help@silent-tower.org