KE3d Korsu class Fast Scout
KE3d Korsu class Fast Scout | |
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Korsumug Empire vessel. | |
Type: SF Scout | |
Category | ACS |
Size | 300 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Needle Hull |
Streamlining | Airframe Hull |
Tech Level | TL–13 |
Engineering | |
Computer | 2x Model/6 Fib |
Jump | J-3 |
Maneuver | 6 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 3 |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 7 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 11 |
Officers | 4 |
Enlisted | 7 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 7 Tons |
Fuel tank | 108 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Korsumug Empire |
Year Operational | Unknown |
End of Service | Still in active service. |
Price | |
Cost | MCr376.087 (base) MCr300.870 (qty) |
Architect fee | MCrAde Stewart |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | SG-3A63 |
Images | |
Blueprint | No |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Also see | Gunboat |
Canon | Published, fan design |
Era | 1105 |
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using Classic Traveller Book 5 High Guard. |
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 it is more commonly defined as a fast scout (also denoted as Type SF). As more information about the type becomes available that designation may change.
Examples of the class serve with the Naval Survey Office of the Immortal Legion Fleet.
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General Description
The Korsu class is a long-range reconnaissance vessel with 6-G and J-4 performance. It has a slender hull and distinctive trifoil wings, making it distinctively different to other Jansa-designed ships. 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.
Basic Ship Characteristics
Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (...of ten subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary. [1]
Basic Ship Characteristics [2] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage / Hull | The KE3d Korsu class Fast Scout / Fleet Scout is constructed using a 300 dTon hull built in a needle configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has excellent atmospheric capability: its atmospheric handling characteristics are reliant on its onboard gravitic systems and improved by its large airfoil surfaces.
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2. | Crew | x11 personnel.
Accommodations
Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems.
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3. | Performance | The vessel mounts a Jump-4 drive, a Maneuver-6 drive, and a fusion Power Plant-6, giving performance of Jump-4 and 6-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 4 and an emergency agility of 6. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for one Jump-4 and gives the power plant 4 weeks duration.
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4. | Electronics | Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/6 fib computer. A backup Model/6 fib is installed in engineering.
The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an advanced sensor array, and has an avionics suite.
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5. | Hardpoints | x3 hardpoints.
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6. | Armament | The normal weapons fit-out for a Korsu class is:
x2 triple Missile turrets, grouped into a single battery of 2 linked turrets.
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7. | Defenses | The hull has no additional armor.
x1 triple Sandcaster turret, forming its own battery.
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8. | Craft | None. |
9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 108 dTons.
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10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr376.087
The price does not include the cost of the subcraft:
With its subcraft, a discounted Korsu class costs MCr305.798 |
11. | Construction Time | 56 weeks as standard, 45 weeks in bulk.
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12. | Comments | Standard cargo capacity amounts to 7 dTons.
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History & Background (Dossier)
The Korsu class scout is a rarely seen type of ship used by the Korsumug Empire, typically serving in a reconnaissance role for a patrol force or a raiding group. There are no exact records of the number that have been built.
The Korsu class were deliberately made to resemble Mavuzo ships, in order to camouflage them and cause enemies to pause before engaging, which could give them an edge in situations where immediate reactions can mean life or death. They proved to be useful vessels and the design now see widespread use within the Empire and beyond its borders. Only one example is known to have 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 remnants that were recovered – the vessel was little more than a gutted shell after the meson gun hit – 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:
Specifications and technical data about the class, particularly details regarding its countermeasures package and sensor and commo jammers, are sought.
Physiologically, neither Jaibok nor Jansa cope well with low berths and they are not routinely fitted to Korsumug vessels.
- Earlier variants of the class were fitted with low berths in order to transport prisoners, a feature that has been removed as internal space issues have become more pressing.
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
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.