Sentinel class Heavy Cruiser

Sentinel class Heavy Cruiser
Type: CH Heavy Cruiser
Category	BCS
Size	70,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	Close Structure Hull
Streamlining	Partially Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–15
Engineering
Computer
Jump	J-4
Maneuver	6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	700
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	616 with 70 marines
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	17 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Price
Cost	MCr44,944.71 Qty: MCr 35,955.758
Architect fee	MCr449.447
Images
Blueprint	No
Source
Also see	Cruiser
Canon	Published, fan design

This class serves with the 112th Fleet, among others. This design has been around for a long time. They have been refitted and re-classified several times over the course of their careers. The lower displacement hull, in a close configuration, light armor and small power plant combine to make this class inexpensive for their size, which always made the bean counters at fleet procurement very happy. At one point, they carried an abundance of 50 ton missile bays, and little else and were used as a class of agile missile cruiser. The admiralty discarded this concept in favor of a massive battleship class meson gun, which is seen as the weapon of decision. These new battlecruisers, with their light armor plating, and now lower agility were glass cannons. The missile weapon load was dropped to nearly non-existent. The power plant output could barely keep up with demand and fleet engineers always complain that they are a few meagawatts short and that she can barely take it. Eventually, their low displacement, and lumbering lack of agility lead to them being reclassified as "heavy" cruisers, and they were reassigned to CruRons with more patrol missions instead of line combat. This vessel currently incorporates common imperial design features including the standard jump 4 requirement, 6 Gs acceleration, and enough low berths for a low watch. A reinforced marine platoon for orbital insertion commando missions and boarding actions is embarked. The marines are supported by four 50 ton Cutters and their crews. The close configuration hull is partially streamlined for gas giant refueling with fuel scoops and on board fuel purification. The hull is lightly armored, with excellent nuclear dampers and meson screens. There are back-up screens in case of battle damage. There are a pair of Model 9 fib computers.

The current weapons load includes:

• A powerful factor T spinal mounted meson gun.
• 10 batteries of triple sand casters.
• 10 heavy repulsor bays.
• 10 batteries of triple beam laser turrets.
• 10 batteries of dual fusion gun turrets.
• 10 heavy particle accelerator bays.
• 13 batteries of triple missile turrets.

History & Background (Dossier)

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Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

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Selected Variant Types & Classes

Military Ship - Warship - Heavy Cruiser:

1. Type CH class Heavy Cruiser
   1. Arakoine class Strike Cruiser
   2. Atlantic class Heavy Cruiser
   3. Aubaka class Battle Cruiser
   4. Bastion class Battle Cruiser
   5. Blake class Heavy Cruiser
   6. Canton class Control Cruiser
   7. Chazhdr class Light Cruiser
   8. Conquest class Heavy Cruiser
   9. Cynical Son class Battlecruiser
   10. Dacrows Mire class Battlecruiser
   11. Dadiat class Heavy Cruiser
   12. Dauntless class Heavy Cruiser
   13. Effendi class Heavy Cruiser
   14. Elaezoe class Cruiser
   15. Elfen Lied class Heavy Cruiser
   16. Eurisko class Heavy Cruiser
   17. Fulcrum class Battlecruiser
   18. Gateway class Heavy Cruiser
   19. Gauntlet class Battlecruiser
   20. Glenaurian class Heavy Cruiser
   21. Gridlow class Heavy Cruiser
   22. Halsey Keats class Heavy Cruiser
   23. Honre class Asteroid Battle Cruiser
   24. Hu Gi Singh class Battlecruiser
   25. Iridium Vow class Battlecruiser
   26. Joker class Battle Cruiser
   27. Kagori class Battlecruiser
   28. Kalradin class Battlecruiser
   29. Kas'Drak class Strike Cruiser
   30. Kirov class Cruiser
   31. Mercury class Heavy Cruiser
   32. Minsk class Heavy Cruiser
   33. Mongol Risen class Cruiser
   34. Narmo class Heavy Cruiser
   35. Neivrdlalh class Heavy Cruiser
   36. Nightrim class Heavy Cruiser
   37. Nordica class Battlecruiser
   38. Normandy class Heavy Cruiser
   39. Panjiach class Heavy Cruiser
   40. Planet class Heavy Cruiser
   41. Pukushik class Cruiser
   42. Refined class Heavy Cruiser
   43. Regal class Battlecruiser
   44. Repulse class Heavy Cruiser
   45. Rugiceps class Light Cruiser
   46. Scapa class Heavy Frigate
   47. Sentinel class Heavy Cruiser
   48. SH70K class Heavy Cruiser
   49. Shtiaba class Light Cruiser
   50. Tash class Heavy Cruiser
   51. Tliabazhdrinzh class Heavy Cruiser
   52. Trend class Support Cruiser
   53. Umbra class Battlecruiser
   54. Viatoris class Heavy Cruiser
   55. Vieblazhdr class Heavy Cruiser
   56. Vonk class Cruiser
   57. Vrapkenchkinj class Light Battlecruiser
   58. Windhorst class Heavy Cruiser
   59. Xing!kir class Light Cruiser
   60. Xundar class Heavy Cruiser

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• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science