Lithos Mailed class Heavy Battle Rider

Lithos Mailed class Heavy Battle Rider
Unpublished, non-canon fan design.
Type: BRA Heavy Battle Rider
Size	20,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[{{{hull}}}]]
Tech Level	TL–13
Engineering
Computer	7fibx2
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	4 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	200
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	229
Officers	30
Enlisted	199
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	45 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Talokan Armed Forces
Manufacturer	Petros Felix Electric Boat Werks, Inc, LLC
Price
Cost	MCr15,333.2 in quantity MCr12,266.56
Architect fee	MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Lithos Mailed class Heavy Battle Rider is a warship:

• It is a military ship and an Heavy Battle Rider.

Description (Specifications)

The Lithos Mailed class Heavy Battle Rider is unstreamlined planetoid hulled ship of the line. The vessel is a TL-13 design. The name of the class sprang from an overly optimistic marketing campaign. Eight of this class are carried into battle by the S-1a class Space Command Battle Tender.

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 Lithos Mailed class Heavy Battle Rider class is constructed using a 20,000 dTon hull built in an unstreamlined asteroid configuration. x4 primary airlocks and x10 secondary service airlocks are located around the vessel. The cargo hold is accessed by several large hatches with loading ramps. It has vacuum cargo transfer locks with grapples. The configuration of the hull typically stays in orbit and relies on service vessels.
2.	Crew	x229 personnel: 11 command, 50 engineering, 105 gunnery, 3 flight, 40 services, and 20 security. Accommodations There are 117 staterooms. Double occupancy accommodations are available for all. 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 four Magnum Flow Reactionless 1G drives, and a Power Plant-7, giving performance of 4G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 0 and an emergency agility of 4. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for the power plant to have 4 weeks duration. The engineering section has a main control room. Ladders, gantries and platforms give access to the machinery.
4.	Electronics	Adjacent to the bridge is an efficient Model/7fib computer: with a full backup computer is installed. There are multiple holo-dynamically reconfigurable Workstations. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an extensive passive and active EMS sensor arrays, and an avionics suite, with terrain following abilities. Vessels in military service have advanced sensors and are fitted with backup commo and sensor systems. They have system range laser, maser, and radio communication systems. Electromagnetic Spectrum Sensors include the following. • Active IR (infrared radiation, thermal imaging) (Active Sensor) • Laser / Light Sensors (Passive Sensor) • LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) – also called LADAR (Laser Detection and Ranging) (Active Sensor) • Prismatic (anti-laser) aerosol (countermeasure) • Magnetic Sensor (Passive Sensor) • Neutrino Sensor (Passive Sensor) • Passive IR (infrared radiation, thermal imaging) (Passive Sensor) • RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) (Active Sensor) • All-weather RADAR (improved function in a variety of environmental conditions) (Active Sensor) • RADAR Direction Finder (Passive Sensor) • RADAR Jammer (Active ECM) • Radiation Sensor (Passive Sensor) • Radio Detector (Communications Equipment) (Passive Sensor) • Radio Direction Finder (Passive Sensor) • Radio Jammer (Active ECM) • UV Detector (ultraviolet radiation) (Passive Sensor) Gravitic Equipment • Densitometer (gravitic sensor) (Passive Sensor) Navigational Aids • Inertial Locator (navigational aid, data improvement) It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
5.	Hardpoints	x200 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 is: x1 factor p spinal mounted meson gun. x4 100 ton factor 9 missile bays. x20 triple Beam Laser turrets, 2 factor 9 batteries. x20 double fusion gun turrets, 2 factor 8 batteries.
7.	Defenses	Factor 3 integral hull armor, 2 x factor 3 Nuclear Dampers, and 2 x factor 3 Meson Screens. x40 triple Sand Caster turrets, 4 factor 9 batteries.
8.	Craft	Flight Section x4 3 dton Air Rafts The Lithos Mailed class Heavy Battle Riders usually carries a platoon of small Grav APCs for the direct action team to deploy and ex-filtrate. The vehicles are housed in a dedicated hanger.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1,400 dTons.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel, complete without the subcraft, is MCr15,333.2. The vessel and its subcraft are standard designs. Detailed architectural plans are widely available and a 153.332 design fee is chargeable. If multiple examples of the design are ordered all of the ships in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price per unit to MCr12,266.56 (not including subcraft).
11.	Construction Time	174 weeks individually, 139 weeks in quantity. 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 45 dTons.

History & Background (Dossier)

Designed and built for Talokan Armed Forces these are inexpensive unstreamlined native nickle-iron asteroid hulls, lightly armored vessels designed to hit hard and fade away. They carry the most powerful spinal mounted meson gun available. Hindered by light armor, they do have redundant systems to absorb some critical hits. They lost maneuver drives and are slower as a result. A larger than normal set of fusion reactors were required to power the massive meson gun. The four heavy missile turrets are useful for dealing with intermediate targets. They are most vulnerable when launching and recovering to their tender. All fuel purification was removed as unnecessary, which means less cost and more cargo room.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• 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