This is a low-cost way to build a giant monitor: Take a small asteroid, hollow some of it out, and add drives, weapons, and electronics. The ship uses a 1,000,000-ton (SM +14) unstreamlined hull that is about 200 meters across. Nearly half the ship is nothing but rock – due to its thickness, it can take a lot of pounding! The monitor is primarily a missile ship, but has powerful beam weaponry as well, and a large hangar, which lets it double as a semi-mobile spaceport.

This is the standard heavy monitor providing superior firepower to core systems, most major systems have several and many of the most important secondary systems have one as the core of the defense.

Front Hull System

• [1-3] Stone Armor.
• [4!] Secondary Battery (10 turrets with 30 GJ UV lasers).*
• [5] Habitat (1,000 cabins with total life support, plus four gyms, three other establishments, two large ops centers, a 100-bed hospital sickbay, 10 Minifac fabricators, and 18,380 tons cargo).*
• [6] Enhanced Array (comm/sensor 15).*

Central Hull System

• [1-3] Stone Armor.
• [4] Tertiary Battery (30 fixed mounts with 56cm missile launchers).*
• [5] Hangar Bay (30,000 tons capacity).*
• [6!] Tertiary Battery (30 turret mounts with 100 MJ very rapid fire UV lasers).*
• [core] Control Room (C 11 computer, comm/sensor 13, 40 control stations).*

Rear Hull System

• [1-3] Stone Armor.
• [4-5!] Hot reactionless thrusters(2G each)
• [6,core] Fusion Reactor (two Power Points each).*

* 100 workspaces per system.

The usual crew include 20 bridge officers (captain, two comm officers, executive officer, engineering officer, navigator, pilot, two sensor operators, tactical officer, 10 secondary battery gunners, missile gunner), 30 tertiary turret gunners, 1,000 technicians, 200 ops room operators, and 10 medics. Multiple shifts may be carried, along with a platoon of security guards. Additional crew will be needed to man whatever small craft are carried in the hangar.