Wyvern-Class System Defense Boat

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Wyvern-Class System Defense Boat

The Wyvern SDB was designed to provide a formidable defender of Imperial Naval assets. The Wyvern is designed to intercept and destroy enemy targets long before they get near friendly assets. The boat has 6Gs of acceleration which should allow it to close with hostile targets and to dictate where the fight takes place. It is armed with a power battery of laser weapons. These are linked together and focus a terrific amount of energy on a single target. To defend against attacks, the Wyvern is equipped with a decent amount of armor, more was desired, but the weight of the extra armor, drastically increased the amount of thrust required of the Heplar plant and drove the cost up. In addition to armor, the Wyvern is equipped with 5 state of the art sandcasters, to protect against PAWS, Lasers and Missile blasts. It also mounts 10 half ton point defense lasers, which can shoot down incoming missiles or fighters and at short range can do as much damage as the standard TL-15 150 MJ laser turret. It also mounts a very large Meson screen, which should neutralize meson guns of all but the largest ships. It also has a standard EMM system and 600 decoys to prevent target lock ons. To further decrease the chance of enemy ships locking on to the Wyvern, it is equipped with a 300,000km EMS jammer and a 180,00km Area Jammer.

The Wyvern is equipped with 300,000km meson communicator, which allows it to keep in constant contact with its base, even while lurking in a gas giant.

The Wyvern doesn't carry sick bays, or shops. It is expected that the naval installation which the Wyvern is assigned to can provide these faciliites. The Wyvern has a small 10 ton hangar, to accomadate small crafts carrying crew replacments, cargo and other supplies. The standard procedure is to base the small craft out of the Naval base.

The Wyvern is a very sleek and stream-lined design. It is formed from a central disk and two smaller disks, which are mounted to each side of the central disk. The large 100 Ton laser bay is mounted on the bow of the central disk. Four PD lasers are mounted on each wing disk and two are mounted on the central disk.

Wyvern-Class System Defense Boat

General Data

Displacement: 975 tons	Hull Armor: 200
Length: 44.48 meters	Volume: 13,650 m³
Price: 637.66 MCr	Target Size: S
Configuration:Airframed Dome/Disc	Tech Level: 15
Mass (Loaded/Unloaded): 13,972.1 / 13,531.3

Engineering Data

Power Plant: 6.67 GW Fusion Power Plant, 0.1 year duration (66.7 m³ fuel)

Jump Performance: None

G-Rating: 6G HEPlaR (682.5 MW/G), Auxiliary High Efficiency CG (16.25 MW)

G-Turns: 66, 85.3 m³ fuel each

Maint: 386

Electronics

Computer: 2xTL-15 Fibre-optic computer (1.1 MW)

Commo: Laser (Unlimited; 0.3 MW), Maser (Unlimited; 0.6 MW), Meson (0.1 hex;3 MW), Radio (Unlimited; 20 MW)

Avionics: Imaging EMS, IGS positioning, 190 km/h NOE

Sensors: AEMS (16 hex; 25 MW), PEMS Folding array (7 hex; 0.25 MW), Densitometer (0.4 MW), Neutrino Sensor (0.01 MW),

ECM/ECCM: EMS Jammer (10 hex;30 MW), Area Jammer (6 hex radius; 64.8 MW), EM Masking (13.65 MW)

Controls: Bridge with 22 bridge workstations, 44 normal workstations

Armament

Offensive: 100 ton Laser Bay (2169.4 MW; No crew), w/ 11 710 MJ Grav Focused Laser Weapons, ROF=100
10x 0.5 ton 150 MJ Non-Grav PD Laser (7.08 MW; No crew) ROF=100

Defensive: 5xSand Turret (1 MW; 1 crew)
TL-15 Meson Screen Generator (PV=400; 25 MW; 1 Crew)

Master Fire Directors: 10xTL-15 (6 Diff Mods; 6 hex; 1.136 MW; 1 crew),

Name	Short	Medium	Long	Extreme
710 Mj Laser Bay	10:1/21-67	20:1/21-67	40:1/21-67	80:1/20-67
150 Mj Laser PDF Turret	6:1/10-31	12:1/5-17	24:1/3-9	48:1/1-4

Accommodations

Life Support: Extended (0.38 MW), Gravitic Compensators (9.52 MW)

Grav Compensation: 6 G.

Crew: 75 (1xManeuver, 1xElectronics, 44xEngineer, 16xGunnery, 2xMaintenance, 1xSteward, 10xCommand)

Crew Accommodations: 40xSmall Stateroom (0.5 kW)

Passenger Accomadation: None

Other Facilities: Sick Bay (0.8 MW)Emergancy Low Berth (2 kW)

Cargo: 168 m³ (12 tons), 1 Large Hatches

Small Craft and Launch Facilities: , 1x10-ton minimal hangar

Air Locks: 9

Notes

Total Fuel Tankage: 5,697.3 m³ (406.9 tons).
Fuel scoops (20% of ship surface), fills tanks in 0.52 hours.
Fuel purification machinery (19.5MW), 8.77 hours to refine 5,697.3 m³.
Crew requirements are calculated by using 'Original FFS' crew model. 1.4 MW power shortfall.