Oreo class Destroyer

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Oreo class Destroyer
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Type: DM Destroyer
Category BCS
Size 7,000 Tons
Hull Configuration Oreo Pattern Hull
Streamlining Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level TL–15
Engineering
Computer Model/TBD
Jump J-3
Maneuver 3 G
Armaments
Hardpoints 70
Accommodations
Staterooms 0
Personnel
Crew 87
    Officers 9
    Enlisted 78
High/Mid Passengers 0
Payload
Cargo 33.0 Tons
Fuel tank 0 Tons
Construction
Origin Third Imperium
Year Operational Unknown
End of Service Still in active service.
Price
Cost MCr6,245.234 (base)
MCr4,996.187 (qty)
Architect fee MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Images
Blueprint No
Illustration No
Source
Also see Destroyer
Canon Published, fan design
Era 1105
Reference Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr.
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Oreo class Destroyer is a light warship.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

The Oreo class Destroyer was originally designed for service with the Fleets of the Domain of Sylea. The design process was strongly influenced by the former Duke of Oreo Subsector, in Massilia Sector, a keen amateur naval architect. The class are larger than normal destroyers, yet are considered too small to be a true cruiser. The primary weapon is the powerful Meson Gun spinal mount, giving the vessel a punch far above its weight. The screens are mediocre, one of many compromises needed to accommodate the meson gun in a hull this size. The ability to destroy enemy shipping takes priority over its own survival: range and speed also suffered as a result of this martial mindset. In compliance with the "Oreo Settlement" the ship carries an Alfred class Gunboat.

Image Repository[edit]

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General Description & Deck Plans[edit]

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Basic Ship Characteristics[edit]

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 subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary. [1]

Basic Ship Characteristics [2]
No. Category Remarks
1. Tonnage / Hull The Oreo class is constructed using a 7,000 Ton "Oreo Pattern" hull built in a Close Structure configuration. The hull is partially streamlined, giving a relatively limited atmospheric performance that is reliant on its onboard gravitic systems.
  • There are multiple airlocks located around the vessel. The cargo hold is accessed by large doors and has a loading ramp.
  • The vessel has sturdy fixed legs, allowing surface landings.
2. Crew x87 personnel.
  • x12 Officers.
  • x75 Enlisted, including x7 Security.

Accommodations

  • There are 43.5 Staterooms. All quarters are double occupancy.

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-3 drive, a Maneuver-3 drive, and a Power Plant-16, giving performance of Jump-3 and 3-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 1 and an emergency agility of 3. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for one Jump-3 and gives the power plant 4 weeks duration.
  • The engineering section has a main control room.
    • Ladders, gantries and platforms give access to the machinery.
  • The jump drive utilizes a lanthanum hull grid.
  • The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.
4. Electronics Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/9fib computer: no backup computer is installed.
  • There are multiple workstations and control points throughout the vessel.
  • The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an advanced sensor array, and has an avionics suite.
  • It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
  • It is equipped with a sophisticated ECM package.
5. Hardpoints x70 hardpoints.
  • The listed battery groupings are standard configurations for the class. Alternative battery groupings may be designated for specific missions.
6. Armament The normal weapons fit-out for an Oreo class is:
7. Defenses The hull is unarmored.
8. Craft Flight Section

The Gunboat is housed in a dedicated hanger: the hanger can be sealed and has a total volume of 117 Tons.

9. Fuel Treatment The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 3,290 Tons.
  • The hull is fitted with fuel scoops.
  • The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10. Cost The basic cost of the vessel is MCr6,245.234
  • Architects Fee: MCr62.452
11. Construction Time 150 weeks (35 months) as standard.
  • 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 33 Tons.
  • The cargo hold can be sealed and has independent life support and environmental systems.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

The Oreo class Destroyer sees service in Fleets across the Domain of Sylea and beyond. It was designed to be produced in shipyards across the Domain and was intended for general Imperial service, and as such it bore no particular cultural or political influences within its architecture. However, it was designated for service with the 146th Fleet stationed in Oreo Subsector, and consequently the eccentric but influential 14th Duke of Oreo became involved in the project.

The 14th Duke was a direct descendant of the aristocratic Halls families, the pre-Imperial rulers of Oreo Subsector. When the Oreo Worlds, the proto-polity they controlled, was absorbed into the expanding Third Imperium they gained a privilege known as the "Oreo Settlement". This mandated that any vessels that were to serve with the 146th Fleet – the designation given to the former Oreo Worlds flotilla and considered by the 14th Duke to be his "personal Fleet" – must be locally designed and manufactured. The privilege had been granted by Cleon I himself and the Duke insisted that it must be honored.

The demand was utterly impractical and strategically suicidal, and the Navy resisted the proposal, eventually resulting in the direct intervention of the Archduke of the Domain. She ruled that all vessels of the Oreo class, no matter where they served, were to carry an Alfred class Gunboat, a small combat craft that was the personal design of the 14th Duke himself. The Alfred was a capable vessel and all parties found the resolution acceptable. The current Duke has maintained his father's policy and as a result many classes of warship operating within the Domain carry at least one Alfred. Some naval officers resent the ongoing Noble influence on naval architecture: others see the broader political benefits that such indulgences can bring.

Oreo Pattern Hulls[edit]

"Oreo Pattern" hulls are a naval design feature that grew out of the "Oreo Settlement", and which was initially implemented in Oreo Subsector of Massilia Sector for economic reasons following the Civil War. Fundamentally, it is the process of creating hybrid technology ships. Unarmored hulls are locally built at lower tech levels, transported aboard commercial vessels, and fitted out as TL-15 warships at the more advanced shipyards in the region. "Oreo Pattern" starships have proven just as capable as their counterparts originating in other regions of the Imperium and it is now an accepted quirk of warships originating within the Domain of Sylea. [3]

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]

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Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]

Military Ship - Warship- Medium Destroyer:

  1. Type DM class Medium Destroyer
    1. Ancona class Destroyer
    2. Buigoon class Destroyer
    3. Coleridge class Destroyer
    4. Dezhdrle class Destroyer
    5. Enshbasi class Destroyer
    6. Formaine class Destroyer
    7. Fusilier class Destroyer
    8. Gormandoacy class Destroyer
    9. Hall class Destroyer
    10. Heng-O Type 22 class Destroyer
    11. Holdemar class Destroyer
    12. Hopper class Destroyer
    13. Jask class Destroyer
    14. Keawehei class Destroyer
    15. Kendal Craig class Destroyer
    16. Kurrigan class Destroyer
    17. McKenzie class Destroyer
    18. MolTol class Destroyer
    19. Oreo class Destroyer
    20. Pharos class Destroyer
    21. Rajiv class Destroyer
    22. Soaring Wing class Destroyer
    23. Torrel class Destroyer
    24. Type 052D Yulang III class Destroyer
    25. Xianghou class Destroyer
    26. Zhdrbaeliprietl class Destroyer

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