KE3d Korsu class Fast Scout
The KE3d Korsu class Fast Scout is a scout.
- It is a paramilitary ship and a Long-Range Scout.
- It is an evolution of the earlier KE3 Korsu class Gun Boat.
Description (Specifications)
The Korsu class is a scouting vessel of the Korsumug Empire.
- The class is operated by the Imperial Korsumug Navy.
- The vessel is a Jansa design.
- It is typically crewed by Jansa.
- It is a TL–13 design.
Unusually for Korsumug Empire vessels, Korsu class scouts rarely have Jaibok crew.
Information about the Korsu class is hard to come by. It is classified as a fleet scout (Type SF), though as more information about the type becomes available that designation may again change.
Examples of the class serve with the Naval Survey Office of the Immortal Legion Fleet.
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KE3d Korsu class Fast Scout
General Description
The Korsu class is a long-range reconnaissance vessel with 6-G and J-4 performance. The design has sophisticated electronics and is fitted with advanced sensor and communications systems. Typically, the vessel jumps into a system, often many AU beyond the mainworld, accelerating past a target at extremely high speed and performing sensor scans before jumping away. They will always try to avoid combat, jumping clear if necessary. If there is danger of capture, the vessels are fitted with a self-destruct device (a "Thunderball") that can be triggered by the officer in command.
- The vessel may operate as part of a Jaibok raiding group.
General Description
The Korsu class is a reconnaissance vessel with 6-G and J-4 performance. The design is packed with sophisticated electronics (occupying around 10% of the hull) and is fitted with advanced sensor and communications systems. The vessels act as "the eyes of the fleet", remaining in the background, often many AU from the action, keeping an overwatch and relaying information to other vessels. They will always try to avoid combat, jumping clear if necessary. If there is danger of capture, the vessels are fitted with a self-destruct device (a "Thunderball") that can be triggered by the officer in command.
- The vessel may operate as part of a Jaibok raiding group.
History & Background (Dossier)
The Korsu class scout is a rarely seen type of ship used by the Korsumug Empire, typically serving in a supporting role for a patrol force or a raiding group. There are no exact records of the number that have been built. Only one example has been captured by another interstellar state, after it was struck by a meson weapon and suffered a series of internal explosions that killed the crew before they could initiate the self-destruct. The remains that were recovered - the vessel was little more than a gutted shell - nonetheless provided valuable intel.
The type was designed by the Jansa, a minor race closely allied with the Jaibok.
Early low-jump examples of the class were spherical-hulled gunboats that served on the Korsumug Main, where they saw frequent active service and were often used as sensor pickets. The design gradually became used exclusively as a scouting vessel. A number of redesigns with more powerful drives and increasingly slender hull profiles were fielded as the Korsumug Empire began to venture to worlds further from the Main. This ultimately resulted in the long, narrow KE3d variant, fitted with large airfoil surfaces and equipped with a Jump-4 drive.
Examples of the Korsu class can be encountered throughout Mavuzog Sector and Theta Borealis Sector.
- The class are primarily manufactured on Esmeria, in Taltan Subsector of Mavuzog Sector.
- They are parcelled out in small numbers to active fleets.
- They are only operated by the Korsumug Naval Survey Office.
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities
Vessel Peculiarities:
Further specifications about the class, particularly details regarding its countermeasures package and sensor and commo jammers, are sought.
Class Naming Practice/s:
Vessels of the Korsumug Empire are given alphanumeric designations and callsigns by other interstellar states. KE refers to Korsumug Empire (a designation applied to all Korsumug combat units), 3 is a multiple of hundreds of tons of displacement and also indicates at a glance the number of weapons mounts, and 'd' refers to the version of the vessel, relating to its construction tech level and bracketing its maximum jump potential. Type codes will often repeat: 'Korsu' is an easy to remember name to identify the specific type of vessel.
- Individual vessels are generally named by their crews.
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Paramilitary Vessel - Scout Vessel - Fleet Scout:
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS