| NathanKell |
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| 10/28/02 08:35 PM |
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Penobscot (BC-74)-class Battlecruiser
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Penobscot-class Battlecruiser
The Penobscot-class Battlecruiser is a warship of the new school: large for a battlecruiser, swift enough to justify the name--and surely armed and armored enough for the name--the Penobscot puts many old battleships to shame. She is rather squat for her length (960m, with a maximum width of 394m in both dimensions), but her performance brings to mind a leaner, more predatory image.
She is capable of far more acceleration than many larger warships--she can, in fact, match acceleration with the Star League's corvettes, because her four 10.5-giganewton class thrusters combine to give the Penobscot a peak acceleration of 3Gs.
She mounts sixteen hex gatlings of 126cm in eight dual turrets. Other than being easier to deal with than a massive number of single-barrel weapons, the gatling mirrors the performance of three NAC/30s. Normally four of the turrets point forward, one each fore-right and fore-left, and one each aft-left and aft-right. Each turret also has four Barracuda tubes between the two massive barrels, as well as three laser point defense clusters. Each cluster contains four Large Pulse Lasers for anti-fighter work and eight Micro Pulse Lasers for missile defense. In addition to the turrets, the Penobscot mounts four Barracuda tubes and five PD clusters directly aft, and a single PD cluster in the nose. Combined, her firepower rivals even the Black Lion, and puts numerous elder battleships and battlecruisers to shame.
Her protection also outstrips many older ships: the Penobscot mounts well over three thousand tons of the finest Lamellor Ferro-Carbide armor, enough to shrug off any but the heaviest salvo.
The Penobscot is another "ship-kabob" like the Maine and Enterprise, and the three share a number of components. Among these are the giant spherical nose with bridge, CIC, and shuttle bay; two "petal" style gravdecks that tilt outward when the Penobscot is under thrust to maintain a constant 1G for her crew; and the rear engineering module, though of course the Penobscot mounts a different set of thrusters. Through these, and the two rings of turrets, spears the KF drive with its Lithium-Fusion battery.
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AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout
SURE AS HECK NOT VALIDATED
Class/Model/Name: Penobscot-Class Battlecruiser (BC-74)
Tech: Terran Commonwealth (3060 Clan Level 2)
Vessel Type: WarShip
Mass: 1,400,000 tons
K-F Drive System: Compact
Power Plant: Bath FuseJet (4 nozzles)
Safe Thrust: 4
Maximum Thrust: 6
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide
Armament:
120 Large Pulse Laser
240 Micro Pulse Laser
48 NAC/30
36 Barracuda
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Class/Model/Name: Penobscot-Class Battlecruiser (BC-74)
Mass: 1,400,000 tons
Structural Integrity: 120
Heat Sinks: 3,300 Double
Fuel: 180 days at 1G; 3,557 thrust points (7,114 tons)
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide (3,768 total armor pts)
Capital Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Fore: 701
Fore-Left/Right: 631/631
Aft-Left/Right: 602/602
Aft: 601
Cargo:
Bay 1: Small Craft (12) with 4 doors
Bay 2: Cargo (1%) with 8 doors 14,575.00
Grav Decks #1 - 2: (240-meter diameter; rotates out into 8 petals) 400.00
Life Boats: 118
Crew and Passengers:
95 Officers
379 Crew / Gunners
1 Power Armor Company (104 elemental-class))
24 Bay Personnel (12 Pilots, 12 Techs)
Flag Complement (10 1st Class, 30 regular)
Lithium Fusion Battery
Hyperpulse Generator
Weapons and Equipment
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Nose:
4 Large Pulse Laser
8 Micro Pulse Laser
24 NAC/30 (30rpg)
16 Barracuda (10rpg)
Fore Sides:
24 Large Pulse Laser
48 Micro Pulse Laser
6 NAC/30 (30rpg)
4 Barracuda (10rpg)
Broadsides:
12 Large Pulse Laser
24 Micro Pulse Laser
Aft Sides:
12 Large Pulse Laser
24 Micro Pulse Laser
6 NAC/30 (30rpg)
4 Barracuda (10rpg)
Aft:
20 Large Pulse Laser
40 Micro Pulse Laser
4 Barracuda (10rpg)
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 5,438,211,600 C-Bills
Battle Value: 545,297
Cost per BV: 9972.94
BattleForce2: Not applicable
| NathanKell |
| (Major) |
| 10/28/02 08:38 PM |
| 24.44.238.62 |
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Re: Penobscot (BC-74)-class Battlecruiser
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| Apoc |
| (Private) |
| 11/01/02 06:34 PM |
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Pending ship reclassification
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I just read a short story that made me thing of your ship. It made made mention of a ship class called a Guncruiser. I think it applies very well with your pictures and the 4 donzen NAC'/30s.
| NathanKell |
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| 11/01/02 08:42 PM |
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Re: Pending ship reclassification
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Cool.
What was the story?
| Apoc |
| (Private) |
| 11/02/02 04:56 PM |
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Re: Pending ship reclassification
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This story is actually part of a series written by a guy and his friends from college. They use ideas from all over; Star Trek and Star Trek: TNG, Robotech, Wing Commander, various Japanese anima, Transformers, etc. Very interesting reading. The only thing BattleTech related is a Griffin, but *gasps*
, the author uses itas battle armor instead of as a mech.
http://www.eyrie.net/UF/EX/WILD/wilderness-2.txt
http://www.eyrie.net/UF/EX/WILD/wilderness-3.txt
Guncruiser is mentioned in chapter 5, wilderness-2. Wilderness-3 has battles describing it in action. I think it's actually the Difiant from Star Trek: DS9. But guncruiser sounds so cool anyway!
You can find the whole series at http://www.eyrie.net/UF/