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| Canon | Unpublished, fan design |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
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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