Sword Class heavy cruiser

This is primary new heavy cruiser replacing the admiral class.

It is a very fast and well-protected reactionless drive starship.

It’s designed almost exclusively for ship-to-ship battles, with a heavy armament of X-ray lasers and missiles, and a powerful defensive force screen. Its 30,000-ton (SM +11) streamlined hull is about 150 meters long, with good acceleration and interstellar performance.

Front Hull System

• [1-3] Hardened Diamondoid Armor.
• [3!] Major Battery (one fixed mount 10 GJ X-ray laser).*
• [5] Multipurpose Array (comm/sensor 13).*
• [6] Habitat (five luxury cabins and 30 cabins and 30 bunk rooms with total life support, 10-bed automed clinic sickbay, two fabricator minifacs, briefing room, gym, lab, and 215 tons cargo).*

Central Hull System

• [1] Hardened Diamondoid Armor.
• [2!] Major Battery (with one 10 GJ X-ray laser turret).*
• [3!] Secondary Battery (with 10 very rapid fire 10MJ X-ray laser turrets).*
• [4] Defensive ECM.
• [5-6!] Stardrive Engines (FTL-1.5 each).*
• [core] Control Room (C10 computer, comm/sensor 11, 15 control stations).*

Rear Hull System

• [1] Hardened Diamondoid Armor.
• [2!] Super Reactionless Engine (10G acceleration).*
• [3] Hangar(1000 ton capacity)
• [4!] Heavy Force Screen (dDR 200 or dDR 400).*
• [5] Secondary Battery (10 fixed mounts with 40cm missile launchers).
• [6] Fusion Reactor (two Power Points).*
• [core] Super Fusion Reactor (four Power Points).*

* Three workspaces per system.

The ship has artificial gravity and gravitic compensators, and a stealth and dynamic chameleon hull.

The usual crew are 15 bridge operators (captain, executive officer, pilot, two engineering officers, navigator, two sensor operators, communication officer, chief gunner, four gunners, and a tactical officer), 45 technicians, one medic, a platoon of marines and all necessary small craft pilots and flight crews. Multiple crew shifts are usually carried.