Dzen class Strike Cruiser
| Dzen Class Strike Cruiser | |
|---|---|
| Type: CS Strike Cruiser | |
| Size | 17,600 Tons |
| Hull Configuration | [[{{{hull}}}]] |
| Tech Level | TL–14 |
| Engineering | |
| Computer | |
| Jump | J-5 |
| Maneuver | 3 G |
| Armaments | |
| Hardpoints | 176 |
| Accommodations | |
| Staterooms | 0 |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 156 |
| High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
| Payload | |
| Cargo | 12 Tons |
| Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
| Construction | |
| Origin | Vargr |
| Price | |
| Cost | MCr 15,673.687 Qty: MCr 12,538.95 |
| Source | |
| Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
Serving with the Vargr Navy this design is a class of smaller strike cruiser, optimized for long range penetration raids. They are inexpensively built at a shipyard in the Ksethu (world) system. There has been no official explanation for the odd hull size. Rumors persist that it involved a labor dispute over hull grade metal ore refinery quotas versus foundry overtime pay. The hull is a very lightly armored, streamlined needle/wedge fitted with fuel scoops and purification refineries for ocean refueling. Ship's vehicles include: two 25 ton Gigs which are occasionally replaced with light fighter/interceptors. There are twenty particle accelerator barbettes firing as two batteries, a light meson gun spinally mounted, eleven batteries of triple missile turrets for launching anti-shipping torpedoes, ten dual fusion gun turrets firing as a single battery, and twenty triple pulse laser turrets fire as two batteries. The screens are near maximum for this TL–14 design. There are 6 triple sand caster turrets in single battery to compensate for the thin armor (carbon nanotube mesh over forged aluminum and titanium platelets) on the hull. The jump 5 capacity is essential in its role as a light strike cruiser, however, it lumbers without agility and has only 3G's acceleration. The smaller power plant, combined with the massive power draw of the meson gun are blamed. A model 7 fib computer is slightly out of date, and it fitted military grade sensors, adjacent to the bridge.
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy