Guardwell class Fleet Destroyer
Guardwell class Fleet Destroyer | |
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Type: DD Destroyer | |
Category | ACS |
Size | 3,800 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Cylinder Hull |
Streamlining | Partially Streamlined |
Tech Level | TL–9 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/3 fibx2 |
Jump | J-1 |
Maneuver | 6 G |
Fuel Treatment | Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 38 |
Offensive | 3x 100ton bays and 8 triple turrets |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 52.5 |
Low Berths | 11 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 99 |
Officers | 20 |
Enlisted | 79 |
Pilots | 3 |
Marines | 37 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 30.3 Tons |
Fuel tank | 1,026 Tons |
Carried craft | x1 20t assault lander and 8 fighters |
Construction | |
Origin | Muirimi Regency Navy |
Manufacturer | Trichinella Fleet Designs LLC |
Price | |
Cost | MCr3,828.205 prototype |
Architect fee | MCr38.282 |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | DD-1A21 |
Universal Ship Profile | DD–C3167C2-260000-50607-1 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Not Yet |
Source | |
Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
Designer | Ronald B. Kline, Jr. |
Design System | High Guard |
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 Guardwell class Fleet Destroyer is a TL–9 Destroyer and serves as a Military Vessel.
- Please also see: Regency of Muirimi
Description[edit]
The Guardwell-class Destroyer is a Military vessel. It is capable of jump 1 range. It is capable of two jumps on internal fuel supplies and can be fitted with addition jump 1 drop tanks if necessary for extended range patrols. Designed and built at the orbital shipyards of Trichinella (world). Used for local defense, they are typically encountered operating within the Zebylono Subsector of stars within the Iphigenaia Sector.
Image Repository[edit]
General Description & Deck Plans[edit]
The Guardwell class is a partially streamlined hull capable of gas giant refuelling operations.
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] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage / Hull | The Guardwell class is constructed using a 3800 Ton hull built in a cylindrical configuration. The hull is an partially streamlined enhanced by the vessel's onboard gravitic systems.
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2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: 99
Accommodations Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance / Engineering | The vessel mounts a Maneuver-6 drive and a Power Plant-7, giving performance of 6-G acceleration and producing 266 Energy Points. The ship has an agility rating of 5. The dedicated internal fuel tankage gives the power plant 4 weeks duration.
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4. | Main Section / Electronics | Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/3 fib Computer: the ship has a backup Model 3 fib computer.
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5. | Hardpoints | x38 hardpoints.
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6. | Armament / Weaponry | The normal fit-out for a Guardwell class is eight triple turrets and three 100ton weapon bays:
x4 Triple Beam Laser Turrets in a single factor 5 battery for anti-missile point defense and x2 Missile Bays, equipped to carry nuclear warheads for Anti-Shipping Missiles, and a single 100ton factor 6 particle accelerator bay. |
7. | Defenses | The hull has factor 2 Heavy Armor and mounts four triple sand caster turrets in a single factor 6 battery.
a total of x12 Sandcaster racks are mounted as part of the ship's defensive array. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems. |
8. | Craft / Subcraft | Vehicles
x1 20-dTon Assault Lander and eight 8 ton Midget Fighters organized into a single interceptor squadron. The hangar is a dedicated vehicle garage and forms part of the cargo hold. It is divided off by partition walls and also serves as a machine shop. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1,026 dTons.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel, is MCr3,828.205 for the prototype.
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11. | Construction Time | 132 weeks (33 months) as standard.
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12. | Remarks | Standard cargo capacity amounts to 30.3 dTons.
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History & Background[edit]
The original hulls were commercial ore carriers which were retasked. A single prototype was delivered and tested. This vessel the RMV Guardwell underwent extensive trials and modifications including the addition of an assault lander, a small squadron of tiny fighters and a marine platoon. A smaller powerplant was fitted which restricted agility once the power hungry particle accelerator came online. A redundant computer was fitted to reduce work load over the primary ship network which tended to lag under heavy engagement with multiple target tracks. The powerplant modified and the heaviest layers of hull armor were stripped off to make room for more internal features. Thirty additional vessels have been completed to date and formed into three powerful destroyer flotillas. Typically one is held in reserve and the other two patrol neighboring star systems which it can reach. Armor was sacrificed to allow additional fuel tankage to increase operational range.
A government contract at the request of a grateful Regency of Muirimi government naval procurement office. Local shipyard space was set aside for the first hull number of the class. Field trials and shakedown cruises were completed within the parameters of general satisfaction of the regency admiralty.
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]
These vessels has given names which emphasize their protective role.
Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]
Military Ship - Warship- Light Destroyer:
- Type DL class Light Destroyer
- Black Adder class Destroyer
- Cadiz class Fast Destroyer
- Easter class Destroyer
- Elsyel class Light Destroyer
- Felid class Destroyer
- Fraydon class Destroyer
- Gazulin Guardian class Destroyer
- Herrick class Destroyer
- Hostel class Destroyer
- Kayatenga class Destroyer
- Leningrad class Destroyer
- Liberte class Destroyer
- Longbow class Destroyer
- McClaren class Destroyer
- Midu Agashaam class Destroyer
- Mont-DE class Destroyer Escort
- Orpheus class Destroyer
- Penedur class Destroyer
- Pulmigory class Destroyer
- Restrained class Destroyer
- Strider class Destroyer
- Striker class Destroyer
- Tyrian Lordship class Destroyer
- War Hound class Destroyer
- Xuesen class Destroyer
- Zhdiak class Light Destroyer
References[edit]
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This ship was originally designed using one of the Classic Traveller ship design rules:
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- Author: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.