Kite class Line Escort

Kite class Escort
TBD
Type: EE Escort
Category	ACS
Size	2,800 Tons
Hull Configuration	TBD Hull
Streamlining	Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–15
Engineering
Computer	TBD
Jump	J-3
Maneuver	3 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	28
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	95 with 54 marines
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	20 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr3,090.85 in quantity 2,472.68
Architect fee	MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
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 Kite class Escort is a warship.

• It is a military ship and a Escort.

Description (Specifications)

They are partially streamlined cylinders for gas giant refueling if need be, with scoops and refineries. The hull has extremely dense armor plating, a heavy nuclear damper and heavy meson screens. This escort features a massive fusion power plant, for their size, to allow it to power a model 9 fib computer, and 28 triple beam laser turrets organized into five batteries. They also carry a marine platoon for security and boarding actions. They have a 50 ton Cutter, to support marine operations.

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 craft) 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	TBD tons.
2.	Crew	TBD crew.
3.	Performance	TBD
4.	Electronics	TBD
5.	Hardpoints	TBD hardpoints.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for it is: No information yet available. No additional information yet available.
7.	Defenses	No information yet available. No additional information yet available.
8.	Craft	TBD
9.	Fuel Treatment	TBD
10.	Cost	MCrTBD.
11.	Construction Time	TBD months to build, TBD months in quantity.
12.	Comments	TBD Standard cargo capacity amounts to TBD tons.

History & Background (Dossier)

Kite class Escorts are an imperial fleet vessel found in the 107th Fleet where they serve. Naval critics claim that this class was developed for a noble born son of the sector duke. An academy disappointment, this low ranking naval officer, heir and idiot, was granted a line commission. He was given command of a ship with amazing defense, extremely rugged and hard to destroy. Kept small enough to escape notice and yet so lightly armed. It is claimed that these ships have never destroyed an enemy vessel on purpose. Additional copies were made, just so it would not look too suspicious to the emperor's naval inspector general and imperial comptrollers.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• 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