Plankwell class Dreadnought
Plankwell class Dreadnought | |
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Type: BP Pocket Battleship | |
Category | BCS |
Size | 200,000 Tons |
Hull Configuration | Slab Hull |
Streamlining | Unstreamlined Hull |
Tech Level | TL–15 |
Engineering | |
Computer | Model/9 fib |
Jump | J-4 |
Maneuver | 5 G |
Armaments | |
Hardpoints | 530 (2,000) |
Accommodations | |
Staterooms | 0 |
Personnel | |
Crew | 1,163 |
Enlisted | 983 |
High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
Payload | |
Cargo | 0 Tons |
Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
Construction | |
Origin | Third Imperium |
End of Service | Still in active service. |
Price | |
Cost | MCr150,618.52 |
Architect fee | MCrTimothy B. Brown |
Statistics | |
Quick Ship Profile | BP-0LU54 |
Images | |
Blueprint | Yes |
Illustration | Yes |
Source | |
Also see | Dreadnought |
Canon | Published, fan design |
Era | 1105 |
Reference | Fighting Ships TBD. |
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard. |
The Plankwell class Dreadnought is a heavy warship.
- It is a military ship and a Pocket Battleship.
- It is also known as the Plankwell class Battleship.
Description (Specifications)
Modular Construction: Plankwell class dreadnaughts were built using a modular design and construction technique which has proven cost-effective in commercial ship-building. A central strut or keel serves as a foundation, bracing the drives and aligning the spinal mount, while all other parts of the ship are mounted to brackets or strengthened points along it. The technique allows separate construction of the various modules (such as quarters, electronics areas, fuel tankage, and control areas), with a final mating of all the various components being performed only after the drives and keel have been tested and accepted. There was some initial concern that the connecting points would be focusses for weakness in battle, but the losses of two separate Plankwells in combat has been attributed by investigating boards to strategic misdirection. [1]
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General Description & Deck Plans
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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. [2]
Basic Ship Characteristics [3] | ||
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No. | Category | Remarks |
1. | Tonnage / Hull | 200,000 tons (standard) or 200.0 ktons. 2,800,000 cubic meters. [4] |
2. | Crew | 180 officers, 983 ratings. [5] Total: 1,163 crew. |
3. | Performance | Jump-4.
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4. | Electronics | Model/9 fib computer. [7] |
5. | Hardpoints | One spinal weapons mount. Fifty 100-ton bays. Eighty 50-ton bays. 630 hardpoints. [8] |
6. | Armament | One meson gun spinal mount (Factor-T). Eighty 50-ton missile bays. 100 triple beam laser turrets organized into ten batteries. Thirty dual fusion gun turrets organized into fifteen batteries. 400 particle accelerator turrets organized into 40 batteries. [9] |
7. | Defenses | Fifty 100-ton repulsor bays. 100 triple sandcaster turrets organized into 25 batteries. Nuclear damper (Factor-9). Meson screen (Factor-3). Armored hull (Factor-10). [10] |
8. | Craft | Five 50-ton small craft of assorted designs. [11] |
9. | Fuel Treatment | Integral fuel scoops and on-board purification plant. [12] |
10. | Cost | MCr150,618.52 standard. MCr120,494.82 in quantity. [13] |
11. | Construction Time | 56 months singly; 40 months in quantity. [14] |
12. | Comments | None. |
History & Background (Dossier)
It is a famed warship class.
The Plankwell class dreadnaught is a more specialized ship than the multi-task oriented Tigress class. Lacking the extensive troop complement and the large fighter screen, the Plankwell fulfills a more traditional battleship role, as the center of a fleet of supporting ships. [15]
For decades, the Imperial Fleet in the Spinward Marches has included at least one BatRon of Plankwell class ships, but recently (1102), the last such squadron was rotated to the strategic reserve in Corridor Sector. Sentiment in Naval and Sector circles runs high in favor of the return of at least one BatRon to the Marches. [16]
Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities
Plankwell class dreadnaughts are named for notable admirals in the Imperial Navy. The class name is taken from Grand Admiral Olav hault-Plankwell, a sector admiral in the Spinward Marches who rose to Grand Admiral of the Marches and led the defeat of the Outworld Coalition during the First Frontier War (589 to 604). Following his victory in 604, he lead the fleet to the Core, personally dispatched the Empress Jaqueline I, and took over the government. The result was the long, bloody Civil War; Olav was the first of the Emperors of the Flag. Although Olav is in disrepute as an Emperor. Grand Admiral Plankwell is still remembered and honored for his achievements as a naval commander in the First Frontier War; significantly, his name has not been assigned to any ship in the new Cleon class Battle Riders, named for Emperors of the Imperium. [17]
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Military Ship - Warship - Pocket Battleship:
- Type BP class Pocket Battleship
- Artemsus class Strike Battleship
- Chtrfiak class Battleship
- Courageous class Battleship
- Fauve class Battleship
- Fenris class Dreadnought
- Furious Anger class Battleship
- Ixobis class Dreadnought
- Kline class Battleship
- Kokirrak class Dreadnought
- Lefaen class Battleship
- Marat class Battleship
- Pador class Dreadnought
- Plankwell class Dreadnought
- Prince Ian II class Battleship
- Prince Morris I class Battleship
- Prince Roger III class Battleship
- Sarriaklir class Battleship
- Smelchak class Battleship
- Sutherland class Ship of the Line
- Tronskia class Dreadnought
- Type VB class Battleship
- Viepchakl class Battleship
- Voroshilef class Battleship
- Yrkath Ossu E*Wr class Battleship
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
- Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40-41.
- Dom Mooney. Power Projection: Fleet (BITS, 2003), TBD.
- Bryan Steele, Stuart Machin, Dom Mooney. Fighting Ships (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), TBD.
- Ken Burnside. Squadron Strike: Traveller (Ad Astra Games, 2018), TBD.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40-41.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 40.