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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.
TL | Spacecraft | dHP | Hnd/SR | HT | Move | LWt. | Load | SM | Occ | dDR | Spd | Cost | Prod/Inv |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | Sword-class | 200(150) | 0/5 | 13 | 10G/c | 30,000 | 1215 | +11 | 190ASV | 720/240/240 +2800/5600 | 3x | $8.487B | 150/736 |
TL | Placement | Weapon | Energy | Damage | sAcc | Range |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | 2 front fixed | X-ray Laser | 10 GJ | 4dx10 burn* sur (5) | 0 | L/X |
11 | 10 all around turrets | X-ray Laser | 10 MJ | 4d burn* sur (5) | 0 | S/L |
11 | 10 fixed Missile Launcher | 40cm | 6dx100(2) | 7 | X |