Sentinel class Heavy Cruiser
Sentinel class Heavy Cruiser | |
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Type: CH Heavy Cruiser | |
Category | BCS |
Size | 70,000 Tons |
Hull Configuration | [[{{{hull}}}]] |
Streamlining | Unstreamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–15 |
Engineering | |
Computer | |
Jump | J-4 |
Maneuver | 6 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 700 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 0 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 616 with 70 marines |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 17 Tons |
Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Third Imperium |
Price | |
Cost | MCr44,944.71 Qty: MCr 35,955.758 |
Architect fee | MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr. |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Source | |
Also see | Cruiser |
Canon | Published, fan design |
This class serves with the 112th Fleet, among others. This design has been around for a long time. They have been refitted and re-classified several times over the course of their careers. The lower displacement hull, in a close configuration, light armor and small power plant combine to make this class inexpensive for their size, which always made the bean counters at fleet procurement very happy. At one point, they carried an abundance of 50 ton missile bays, and little else and were used as a class of agile missile cruiser. The admiralty discarded this concept in favor of a massive battleship class meson gun, which is seen as the weapon of decision. These new battlecruisers, with their light armor plating, and now lower agility were glass cannons. The missile weapon load was dropped to nearly non-existent. The power plant output could barely keep up with demand and fleet engineers always complain that they are a few meagawatts shorts and that she can barely take it. Eventually, their low displacement, and lumbering lack of agility lead to them being reclassified as "heavy" cruisers, and they were reassigned to CruRons with more patrol missions instead of line combat. This vessel currently incorporates common imperial design features including the standard jump 4 requirement, 6 Gs acceleration, and enough low berths for a low watch. A reinforced marine platoon for orbital insertion commando missions and boarding actions is embarked. The marines are supported by four 50 ton Cutters and their crews. The close configuration hull is partially streamlined for gas giant refueling with fuel scoops and on board fuel purification. The hull is lightly armored, with excellent nuclear dampers and meson screens. There are back-up screens in case of battle damage. There are a pair of Model 9 fib computers.
The current weapons load includes:
- A powerful factor T spinal mounted meson gun.
- 10 batteries of triple sand casters.
- 10 heavy repulsor bays.
- 10 batteries of triple beam laser turrets.
- 10 batteries of dual fusion gun turrets.
- 10 heavy particle accelerator bays.
- 13 batteries of triple missile turrets.
History & Background (Dossier)
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Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities
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Selected Variant Types & Classes
Military Ship - Warship - Heavy Cruiser:
- Type CH class Heavy Cruiser
- Arakoine class Strike Cruiser
- Atlantic class Heavy Cruiser
- Aubaka class Battle Cruiser
- Bastion class Battle Cruiser
- Blake class Heavy Cruiser
- Canton class Control Cruiser
- Chazhdr class Light Cruiser
- Conquest class Heavy Cruiser
- Cynical Son class Battlecruiser
- Dacrows Mire class Battlecruiser
- Dadiat class Heavy Cruiser
- Dauntless class Heavy Cruiser
- Effendi class Heavy Cruiser
- Elaezoe class Cruiser
- Elfen Lied class Heavy Cruiser
- Eurisko class Heavy Cruiser
- Fulcrum class Battlecruiser
- Gateway class Heavy Cruiser
- Gauntlet class Battlecruiser
- Glenaurian class Heavy Cruiser
- Gridlow class Heavy Cruiser
- Halsey Keats class Heavy Cruiser
- Honre class Asteroid Battle Cruiser
- Hu Gi Singh class Battlecruiser
- Iridium Vow class Battlecruiser
- Joker class Battle Cruiser
- Kagori class Battlecruiser
- Kalradin class Battlecruiser
- Kas'Drak class Strike Cruiser
- Kirov class Cruiser
- Mercury class Heavy Cruiser
- Minsk class Heavy Cruiser
- Mongol Risen class Cruiser
- Narmo class Heavy Cruiser
- Neivrdlalh class Heavy Cruiser
- Nightrim class Heavy Cruiser
- Nordica class Battlecruiser
- Normandy class Heavy Cruiser
- Panjiach class Heavy Cruiser
- Planet class Heavy Cruiser
- Pukushik class Cruiser
- Refined class Heavy Cruiser
- Regal class Battlecruiser
- Repulse class Heavy Cruiser
- Rugiceps class Light Cruiser
- Scapa class Heavy Frigate
- Sentinel class Heavy Cruiser
- SH70K class Heavy Cruiser
- Shtiaba class Light Cruiser
- Tash class Heavy Cruiser
- Tliabazhdrinzh class Heavy Cruiser
- Trend class Support Cruiser
- Umbra class Battlecruiser
- Viatoris class Heavy Cruiser
- Vieblazhdr class Heavy Cruiser
- Vonk class Cruiser
- Vrapkenchkinj class Light Battlecruiser
- Windhorst class Heavy Cruiser
- Xing!kir class Light Cruiser
- Xundar class Heavy Cruiser
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 of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science