Gimel class Battle Rider
| 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| Canon | Unpublished, fan design |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 | |
Description / Specifications
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.
Hull / Engineering
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Main Section
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Armament
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Defenses
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Subcraft
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Background / History
- 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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- Book 5 High Guard GDW 1980
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy