Tigress class Dreadnought

Tigress class
Type: BA Dreadnought
Size	500,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	[[{{{hull}}}]]
Tech Level	TL–15
Engineering
Computer
Jump	J-3
Maneuver	6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	400
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	4,915
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	10,155 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Price
Cost	MCr347,009.48
Source
Canon	Unpublished, fan design

Background

Although some older Battleships of greater displacement remain in service, the Tigress Class Dreadnought is the largest line-of-battle vessel currently in service with the Imperial Navy in the Spinward Marches Sector. Each BatRon of Tigress class vessels is virtually a fleet unto itself, as each ship carries thirty squadrons of heavy fighters (with ten FHs per squadron). A BatRon of eight ships carries 2,400 heavy fighters.

At present, only one Tigress class BatRon is deployed in the Spinward Marches, assigned to 23rd Fleet, at Rhylanor. Additional Tigress class BatRons are generally assigned one per sector.

Deployment

In war, the ideal deployment of any BatRon is together, as a unit. In peace, various Tigresses are often scattered throughout a region on peacekeeping missions, or to show the flag. Several individual Tigresses have been deployed among the worlds of the Five Sisters Subsector to enforce the Amber Zone blockade of Candory and Andor.

Similarly, Pantheress was dispatched (much to the chagrin of the Zhodani government) to receive the body of the Imperial Ambassador to Cronor upon her death by assassination in 1104. Given the circumstances of her death, it was difficult for the Consulate to object. The ship's weaponry was ceremonially sealed, but that would mean little in an actual fight. Imperial newstapes treated it as a propaganda coup for months.

Construction

The Tigress class is produced using an armored spherical hull with the single spinal meson gun mounted centrally. A large armored port protects the gun during non-combat operations; the port itself contains focusing equipment for the weapon beam.

Within the sphere, layered decks hold the various on-ship functions such as quarters, computer and electronic equipment, fuel treatment, and maintenance areas. Appended to the back of the sphere is a large heavy fighter launch and recovery installation. Fighters are launched to the rear, to starboard, and recovered from the rear, to port; this arrangement prevents them from entering the meson beam when it is in use, as well as providing some armored bulk between the fighters and the enemy.

Class Members

INS-307 Tigress (Class Leader) INS-308 Pantheress

INS-309 Lioness INS-312 Lioness II

Design

Hull

500,000 tons standard, 7,000,000 cubic meters, Sphere Configuration

Crew

388 Officers, 4227 Ratings, 300 Pilots

Engineering

Jump-3, 6G Manuever, Power plant-8, 40,000 EP, Agility 6

Avionics

Bridge, Model/9Fib Computer

Hardpoints

Spinal Mount,22 100-ton bays,430 50-ton bays,400 Hardpoints

Armament

Factor-T Meson Spinal Mount,430 50-ton Missile Bay (Factor-9),100 Triple Beam Laser Turrets organized into 10 Batteries (Factor-9),100 Dual Fusion Gun Turrets organized into 50 Batteries (Factor-6),100 Particle Accelerator Turrets organized into 10 Batteries (Factor-7),

Defenses

22 100-ton Repulsor Bays (Factor-9),100 Triple Sandcaster Turrets organized into 10 Batteries (Factor-9),Nuclear Damper (Factor-9),Meson Screen (Factor-7),15

Craft

300 50 ton Heavy Fighters, 3 50 ton Launch Tubes

Fuel

190,000 Tons Fuel

On Board Fuel Scoops,On Board Fuel Purification Plant

Miscellaneous

2,461 Staterooms, 10,155 Tons Cargo

Cost

MCr 438,099.469Singly (incl. Architects fees of MCr 4,337.619), MCr 347,009.48 in Quantity

Construction time

228 Weeks Singly, 182 Weeks in Quantity

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