War Hound class Destroyer

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War Hound class Destroyer
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Unpublished, non-canon fan design.
Type: DL Destroyer
Category BCS
Size 3,000 Tons
Hull Configuration [[Wedge Hull]]
Streamlining Streamlined Hull
Tech Level TL–12
Engineering
Computer Model 6 fib.
Jump J-2
Maneuver 6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints 30
Accommodations
Staterooms 0
Personnel
Crew 48
    Officers 5
    Enlisted 43
    Marines 8
High/Mid Passengers 0
Payload
Cargo 1 Tons
Fuel tank 0 Tons
Construction
Origin Sudi Verisian Navy
Year Operational No information yet available.
Price
Cost MCr3,067.442 (base)
MCr2,453.954 (discounted)
Architect fee MCr30.674
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile No information yet available.
Images
Blueprint No
Illustration No
Source
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 War Hound class Destroyer is a light warship.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

War Hound class Destroyers serve with the navy of Sudi Verisia, an important world lying within the Distant Fringe region.

Image Repository[edit]

No information yet available.

General Description & Deck Plans[edit]

No information yet available.

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 The War Hound class is constructed using a 3,000 Ton hull built in a Wedge configuration. The hull is fully streamlined, giving good atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by its onboard gravitic systems.
  • There are 8 airlocks located around the vessel. The cargo hold is accessed by an armored hatch and has a service crane.
  • The vessel has sturdy retractable legs, allowing surface landings.
2. Crew 48 personnel, including 8 Marines.
  • 4 Officers, plus 1 Marine NCO.
  • 36 Enlisted.

Accommodations

  • There are 27 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-2 drive, a Maneuver-6 drive, and a Power Plant-6, giving performance of Jump-2 and 6-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 4 and an emergency agility of 6. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for one Jump-2 and one additional consecutive Jump-1 (an "emergency retreat") 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/6fib 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 is fitted with backup commo and sensor systems.
  • It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
  • It is equipped with a sophisticated ECM package.
5. Hardpoints 30 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 a War Hound class is:
7. Defenses The hull is plated, structurally reinforced, and built with secure bulkheads and compartments that give it a High Guard armor rating of 5.
  • 8 triple sandcaster turrets, typically grouped into one battery of 8 linked turrets.
  • The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8. Craft Flight Section

The Ship's Boats are housed in a dedicated hanger: the hanger is a sealable compartment with a volume of 78.0 Tons.

9. Fuel Treatment The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 1,080 Tons.
  • The hull is fitted with fuel scoops.
  • The vessel is equipped with a fuel purification plant that can refine all onboard fuel in a few hours: the plant is operated and maintained by the engineering crew.
10. Cost The basic cost of the vessel is MCr3,067.442
  • Architects Fee: MCr30.674
11. Construction Time 134 weeks (31 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 1 Ton: it serves as a magazine for the Heavy Missile Launcher.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

War Hound class Destroyers serve with the Sudi Verisian Navy, a part of the military forces of the world of Sudi Verisia. It carries enough fuel internally for a jump 2, with a jump 1 reserve for tactical retrograde operations. The armor is considered sufficient to resist internal critical hits from surface strikes. They are move vulnerable against radiation and meson weapons.

Distant Fringe Vessels[edit]

The Distant Fringe is said to be a far spinward-rimward area inhabited by colonists and refugees originating on Terra. The region is extremely isolated, separated from the rest of Charted Space by vast, almost uncrossable rifts that were once broached by a system of calibration Points and the use of tankers. Those few academics within Charted Space who have found references to the Distant Fringe regard it as little more than a tall tale. Likewise, many of the inhabitants of the Distant Fringe believe the existence of Charted Space to be mythical.[3]

Vessels originating within the Distant Fringe are very rarely encountered outside of the region. However, misjumps do occur and anomalies with bizarre spacetime and Jumpspace effects exist: as such, craft of this type are not entirely unknown within Charted Space.[4]

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities[edit]

Each vessel within the class is named by the government of the state that produces it. They generally draw on traditional naming protocols and it is not uncommon for a historical class name to be reused.

  • Individual vessels within the class are issued specific serial numbers and transponder codes.
  • Naming a ship is considered a serious affair and is generally accompanied by a traditional ceremony, usually pouring a local beverage over the bows of the craft. Starfarers tend to be superstitious folk and a ship with a frivolous name is considered "unlucky".

Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]

Military Ship - Warship- Light Destroyer:

  1. Type DL class Light Destroyer
    1. Black Adder class Destroyer
    2. Cadiz class Fast Destroyer
    3. Easter class Destroyer
    4. Felid class Destroyer
    5. Fraydon class Destroyer
    6. Gazulin Guardian class Destroyer
    7. Herrick class Destroyer
    8. Hostel class Destroyer
    9. Kayatenga class Destroyer
    10. Leningrad class Destroyer
    11. Liberte class Destroyer
    12. Longbow class Destroyer
    13. McClaren class Destroyer
    14. Midu Agashaam class Destroyer
    15. Mont-DE class Destroyer Escort
    16. Orpheus class Destroyer
    17. Penedur class Destroyer
    18. Pulmigory class Destroyer
    19. Restrained class Destroyer
    20. Strider class Destroyer
    21. Striker class Destroyer
    22. Tyrian Lordship class Destroyer
    23. War Hound class Destroyer
    24. Xuesen class Destroyer
    25. Zhdiak class Light Destroyer

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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  1. ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
  2. ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
  3. ↑ An unpublished factoid written by Maksim-Smelchak
  4. ↑ An unpublished factoid written by Maksim-Smelchak
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