Admiral Class heavy cruiser

This heavy cruiser is the backbone of the imperial fleet and is what most people think about when they hear “Imperial warfleet”.

This 30,000-ton (SM +11), unstreamlined starship is 150 meters long. It is about the same mass as a World War II battleship.

The Admiral class is heavily armored and bristles with beam and missile firepower.

Its antimatter reactor gives it plenty of power at relatively low mass, but unfortunately leaves it vulnerable to catastrophic kills. To mitigate this, the reactor is buried deep in the heart of the vessel.

Front Hull System

• [1-4] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [5-6!] Major Batteries (turrets with 10GJ UV laser).*
• [core] Control Room (C9 computer, comm/sensor 10, 15 control stations).*

Central Hull System

• [1-2] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [3] Hangar bay(1000 ton capacity)
• [4!] Tertiary Battery (20 fixed mount 32cm missile launchers, 10 turrets with 300 MJ particle beams).*
• [6] Habitat (five luxury cabins, 75 cabins, 75 bunkrooms, 10-bed sickbay, two fabricator minifacs, 140 tons cargo).*
• [core] Antimatter Reactor (four Power Points).*

Rear Hull System

• [1-2] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [3-4] Hot reactionless drives(4 G total)
• [5-6!] Stardrive Engines (FTL-1 each).*

* Three workspaces per system.

It has a stealth hull.

The cruiser’s typical crew are 15 bridge operators (including the captain, executive officer, pilot, engineering officer, navigator, sensor operator, communication officer, missile gunner, and tactical officer), 43 turret gunners and 20 missile operators, 36 technicians, small craft crew and one medic. Multiple crew shifts are usually carried, plus a platoon to a company size marine force.

The shielded version of the Admiral Class heavy cruiser. Recently about 2500 Admirals have been converted to this configuration.

Replaces the 2 Hot reactionless drives with a Basic Force screen and a Super Reactionless Engine (10G acceleration)