Gimel class Battle Rider

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Gimel Class Battle Rider
Type: BR Battle Rider
Size 28,000 Tons
Hull Configuration [[{{{hull}}}]]
Tech Level TL–12
Engineering
Computer
Jump J-0
Maneuver 6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints 280
Accommodations
Staterooms 0
Personnel
Crew 373 with 28 marines
High/Mid Passengers 0
Payload
Cargo 16 Tons
Fuel tank 0 Tons
Construction
Origin Dysprosuk
Price
Cost MCr 37,915.938
Qty: 30,332.75
Source
Canon Unpublished, fan design
Number in Class: 8


Background

Built for the Dysprosuk, the Gimel Class Battle Rider is a streamlined needle/wedge hull structure fitted with fuel scoops for ocean refueling. and a fuel purification plant. The hull has some armor and the vessel is capable of 6 Gs of acceleration, but has limited agility. It carries light meson screens and a nuclear damper system. A platoon of 28 marines is carried with drop capsules.

Tonnage: 28,000 tons (standard), 392,000 cubic meters.
Crew: 37 officers, 336 ratings
Performance: No Jump. 6-G acceleration. Power plant-7. 3,640 EP. Agility 6.
Electronics: (2) Model 6/fib computers
Hardpoints: One spinal mount. (16) 100-ton bays. forty hardpoints.
Armament: Spinal mount meson gun (factor-K). One 100-ton particle accelerator bay. Fourteen 100 ton missile bays. Ten dual fusion gun turrets firing as one battery. Twenty triple beam laser turrets firing as two batteries.
Defences: One 100-ton repulsor bay. Ten triple sand casters firing as one battery. Meson screen (factor-1). Nuclear Damper (factor-1). Armored hull (factor-6).
Craft: 2 x 30 ton Ship's Boats, 18 x 10 ton fighters organized into two squadrons.
Fuel Treatment: fuel scoops
Cost: MCr 37,915.938 standard. MCr 30,332.75 in quantity.
Construction Time: 174 weeks singly; 139 weeks in quantity
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