Gauntlet class Battlecruiser

Gauntlet class Battlecruiser
Gauntlet class Battlecruiser
Type: CH Battle Cruiser
Category	BCS
Size	90,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[{{{hull}}}]]
Tech Level	TL–11
Engineering
Computer	TBD
Jump	J-2
Maneuver	3 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	900
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	767 with 100 Marines
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	78 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Sword Worlds
Price
Cost	MCr109,478.793
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

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Description (Specifications)

This class is as well armed and armored as Sword Worlds Confederation technology can manage.

It carries the best meson spinal mount, a company of marines and a squadron of fighters. It lacks speed and agility as a result.

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General Description & Deck Plans

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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 subcraft) 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 / Hull	90,000 tons. Streamlined wedge configuration.
2.	Crew	767 crew. x81 Officers, x586 Enlisted. x100 Marines. x384 staterooms.
3.	Performance	Propulsion: Jump-2 3-G acceleration Power Plant-3 2,700 EPs Agility-1, Emergency Agility-3
4.	Electronics	Bridge. x2 Model/5 fib computers.
5.	Hardpoints	x900 hardpoints. x80 dedicated to spinal weaponry x600 dedicated to 100-ton bays x220 dedicated to turrets
6.	Armament / Weaponry	The normal weapons fit-out for the Gauntlet class is: Beam Lasers: x80 triple turrets, forming 8 batteries of ten linked turrets. Plasma Guns: x40 dual turrets forming 4 batteries of ten linked turrets. Particle Accelerators: x10 100-ton bays. Meson Guns: x1 Spinal Weapon Missiles: x40 100-ton bays.
7.	Defenses	Defensive Equipment: Heavy Armor: factor 11 Repulsors: x10 100-ton bays. Sandcasters: x100 triple turrets forming 10 batteries of ten linked turrets. The vessel is not equipped with screens or other passive defensive systems
8.	Craft / Drones	TBD
9.	Fuel Treatment	Fuel Tankage: 20,700 tons Fuel Scoops Fuel Purification Plant
10.	Cost	MCr1,094.788 MCr87,583.035 in quantity
11.	Construction Time	51 months to build.
12.	Remarks	Other Equipment: Cargo Bay: Standard cargo capacity amounts to TBD.0 tons.

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:

1. Type CH class Heavy Cruiser
   1. Arakoine class Strike Cruiser
   2. Atlantic class Heavy Cruiser
   3. Aubaka class Battle Cruiser
   4. Bastion class Battle Cruiser
   5. Blake class Heavy Cruiser
   6. Canton class Control Cruiser
   7. Chazhdr class Light Cruiser
   8. Conquest class Heavy Cruiser
   9. Cynical Son class Battlecruiser
   10. Dacrows Mire class Battlecruiser
   11. Dadiat class Heavy Cruiser
   12. Dauntless class Heavy Cruiser
   13. Effendi class Heavy Cruiser
   14. Elaezoe class Cruiser
   15. Elfen Lied class Heavy Cruiser
   16. Eurisko class Heavy Cruiser
   17. Fulcrum class Battlecruiser
   18. Gateway class Heavy Cruiser
   19. Gauntlet class Battlecruiser
   20. Glenaurian class Heavy Cruiser
   21. Gridlow class Heavy Cruiser
   22. Halsey Keats class Heavy Cruiser
   23. Honre class Asteroid Battle Cruiser
   24. Hu Gi Singh class Battlecruiser
   25. Iridium Vow class Battlecruiser
   26. Joker class Battle Cruiser
   27. Kagori class Battlecruiser
   28. Kalradin class Battlecruiser
   29. Kas'Drak class Strike Cruiser
   30. Kirov class Cruiser
   31. Mercury class Heavy Cruiser
   32. Minsk class Heavy Cruiser
   33. Mongol Risen class Cruiser
   34. Narmo class Heavy Cruiser
   35. Neivrdlalh class Heavy Cruiser
   36. Nightrim class Heavy Cruiser
   37. Nordica class Battlecruiser
   38. Normandy class Heavy Cruiser
   39. Panjiach class Heavy Cruiser
   40. Planet class Heavy Cruiser
   41. Pukushik class Cruiser
   42. Refined class Heavy Cruiser
   43. Regal class Battlecruiser
   44. Repulse class Heavy Cruiser
   45. Rugiceps class Light Cruiser
   46. Scapa class Heavy Frigate
   47. Sentinel class Heavy Cruiser
   48. SH70K class Heavy Cruiser
   49. Shtiaba class Light Cruiser
   50. Tash class Heavy Cruiser
   51. Tliabazhdrinzh class Heavy Cruiser
   52. Trend class Support Cruiser
   53. Umbra class Battlecruiser
   54. Viatoris class Heavy Cruiser
   55. Vieblazhdr class Heavy Cruiser
   56. Vonk class Cruiser
   57. Vrapkenchkinj class Light Battlecruiser
   58. Windhorst class Heavy Cruiser
   59. Xing!kir class Light Cruiser
   60. Xundar class Heavy Cruiser

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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