TC9 Forgald class Escort Corvette

TC9 Forgald class Escort Corvette
Trooles Confederation vessel.
Type: EC Escort Corvette
Category	ACS
Size	900 Tons
Hull Configuration	Dispersed Structure Hull
Streamlining	Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–11
Engineering
Computer	2x Model/5 Fib
Jump	J-2
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	9
Accommodations
Staterooms	20.5
Personnel
Crew	41
Officers	3 +31 Flight
Enlisted	8
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	4 Tons
Fuel tank	288 Tons
Construction
Origin	Trooles Confederation
Year Operational	Unknown
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr518.423 (base) MCr414.739 (qty)
Architect fee	MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	ECE-9U22
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	Yes
Source
Also see	Carrier
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The TC9 Forgald class Escort Corvette is a warship.

• It is a military ship and a Escort Corvette.
• Its full designation is the TC9b Forgald class.

Description (Specifications)

The Forgald class is a combat vessel of the Trooles Confederation.

• The class is operated by the Trooles Confederation Navy.
• The vessel is locally designed.
• It is typically crewed by humans.
• It is a TL–11 design.

Image Repository

Forgald class Corvette.

Skrider class Fighter / Valkyrie class Dropship

General Description

The TC9 Forgald class Escort Corvette is a corvette escort class deployed by the Trooles Confederation. Examples of the class can be encountered throughout the coreward parts of Theta Borealis Sector. The vessel has a unstreamlined dispersed structure hull. It is fitted with on board fuel purification plant, but is unable to conduct independent wilderness refueling operations.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (of ten craft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (thousands of tons) where necessary.

Basic Ship Characteristics

No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage	The TC9 Forgald class is constructed using a 900 Ton hull built in a unstreamlined dispersed structure configuration. The hull is incapable of wilderness refueling. The vessel has four airlocks. The cargo hold is accessed by a large bay doors that also serves to anchor docking clamps for service vehicles.
2.	Crew	x41 personnel. x1 pilot, x1 navigator, x4 engineers, x1 medic, x3 gunners, and x31 flight crew. Accommodations There are 20.5 Staterooms. All Staterooms are given over to the crew. All crew quarters are double occupancy. There are no Low Berths. Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Individual sections of the hull can be sealed off. There are multiple emergency lockers.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Jump-2 drive, a Maneuver-2 drive, and an upgraded fusion Power Plant-2, giving performance of Jump-2 and 2-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 1 and an emergency agility of 2. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for a Jump-2 and has a jump 1 internal reserve, and gives the power plant 4 weeks duration. It is fitted with drop tanks, should extended range operations be required. The engineering section has a main control room. The jump drive utilizes a hull grid. The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.
4.	Electronics	Adjacent to the bridge are a pair of Model/5 fib computers. There are multiple workstations and control points throughout the vessel. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a basic sensor array, and has an avionics suite. They have system-range laser, microwave and radio communication arrays.
5.	Hardpoints	x9 hardpoints. The listed weapons systems are typical for the class.
6.	Armament	TC9 Forgald class Destroyer Escorts are fitted with weapon systems for naval service. x2 triple beam laser turrets firing as a single, factor 4 battery. x6 triple missile launcher turrets firing as a single, factor 5 battery.
7.	Defenses	The hull is unarmored. x1 triple Sandcaster turret firing as a single Factor-4 battery.
8.	Craft	Flight Section x30 10-Ton Light Fighters x1 40-Ton Valkyrie class Dropship
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 288.0 Tons. They are delivered with a new set of optional jump 2 drop tanks, which can be fitted as needed. The vessel is equipped with a fuel purification plant that can refine all onboard fuel in 8 hours: the plant is operated and maintained by the engineering crew.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr518.423 (base) MCr414.739 (qty) Architects Fee: MCr5.184
11.	Construction Time	108 weeks as standard, 86 weeks in bulk. Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12.	Comments	Standard cargo capacity amounts to 4.0 Tons. The cargo hold can be sealed and has independent life support and environmental systems. Sections of the hold may be isolated if desired and can be provided with specialized environmental conditions, typically refrigeration.

History & Background (Dossier)

The TC9 Forgald class Escort Corvette is used by the Trooles Confederation. These unstreamlined dispersed structures are another commercial merchant frame pressed into military service by desperate member worlds. Inexpensive, it is intended to provide CSP abilities to destroyer flotillas. The three squadrons of light 10-Ton Fighters are the main offensive and defensive power of this vessel. More of an escort carrier, they eschew marines in favor of more pilots and space fighters. They do carry a 40-Ton TC04 Valkyrie class Dropship as an interface vessel to reach planet surfaces when needed. They have impressive operational range but lack acceleration and agility. The weapon load is typical and can assist in its own defense but poses only a small threat to enemy ship's of the line. There are no service and flight line maintenance crews embarked. Keeping fighters rearmed, refueled and ready for combat can be difficult for this ship. The tempo of operations can suffer as a result. The subcraft are all pressed into service to skim fuel for their mother-craft.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities:
No information yet available.

Class Naming Practice/s:
Vessels of the Trooles Confederation are given alphanumeric designations and callsigns by other interstellar states. TC refers to Trooles Confederation (a designation applied to all Confederation combat units), 10 is a multiple of hundreds of tons of displacement and also indicates at a glance the number of weapons mounts, and when it is used 'b' refers to the version of the vessel, relating to its construction tech level and bracketing its maximum jump potential. Type codes will often repeat: 'Forgald' is an easy to remember class name to identify the specific type of vessel.

• Individual vessels are named by a committee using an authorized list.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Military Vessel - Escort - Close Escort:

1. Type EC class Close Escort
   1. Athune class Close Escort
   2. Breaker class Corvette
   3. Bunker class Close Escort
   4. Convoyer class Close Escort
   5. Cozzi class Corvette
   6. Durt class Escort Corvette
   7. Egek'aa class Corvette
   8. Emerald class Escort Corvette
   9. Eradicator class Escort Corvette
   10. Esqua class Escort Corvette
   11. Gazelle class Close Escort
   12. Gem class Close Escort
   13. Grisha class Corvette
   14. Hatchet class Light Corvette
   15. Hopkins class Escort Corvette
   16. Javelin class Escort Corvette
   17. Jimenez class Escort Corvette
   18. KE8 Blockade class Lancer
   19. KE9 Unleashed class Escort Corvette
   20. Kotaka class Escort Corvette
   21. Lancer class Corvette
   22. Malcolm class Corvette
   23. Mongoose class Close Escort
   24. Patrol class Close Escort
   25. Qatan class Escort Corvette
   26. Risa class Close Escort
   27. Shalis class Patrol Corvette
   28. Sieno class Close Escort
   29. Sii'kha class Escort Corvette
   30. Stalwart class Corvette
   31. Sultanhisar class Escort Corvette
   32. TC9 Forgald class Escort Corvette
   33. Toad SR7T class Yacht / Warsloop
   34. Type CE class Close Escort
   35. Type EC class Corvette
   36. Vaward class Close Escort
   37. Wasinki class Corvette
   38. Wyvern class Escort Corvette
   39. Xebec class Explorer

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science