Cray
08/15/02 11:18 AM
64.83.29.242
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[The stats for the Ghost Bear's revamped Leviathan were posted on CBT. I was expecting the uber gunboat. Liam made a better carrier without the lasers...so many lasers...and I decided to make a better gunboat. And also because I haven't made a munchkin dreadnaught in a while.]
Peter Steiner-Davion looked out the dropship's port.
"Dude," whispered the Archon in awe.
"Dude," acknowledged Chief Langley.
"Du-u-u-ude...," the Archon whispered as the possibilities dawned.
"Dude," Langley confirmed with a nod.
"Just...dude..." the Archon wondered.
"Yeah, the Free Worlders weren't the only ones to stumble over lost Star League ships, your highness," Langley explained. "We found this fleet of 'scuttled ships' here in 3048. When your father funded Fed-Boeing's warship program, these were picked over for ideas that went into the Fox."
"Dude," the Archon said solemnly. Dad always had good ideas.
"Then your sister decided to reawaken these ships in 3059. The six of'em would instantly expand the fleet, or so she thought."
"Dude," the phrase was uttered tersely, angrily.
"Yeah, I know. We could've had the Lolas up and running in 3062, maybe 3063. But the orders were to get the McKennas up first."
"Dude," an acknowledgement of the difficulties the scientists and engineers looked forward to when trying to rebuild the biggest ships first.
"We almost had them ready, but there was a software problem with the repaired Communal V computers, so we decided to delay a week to work out the bug. In that one...*one*...week, your sister was off Tharkad and shacked up with her Wolfie squeeze."
"Dude."
"And, so, here they are. All repaired, up-gunned, and up-armored with nothing to kill."
"Dang."
AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout
NOT AT ALL VALIDATED
Class/Model/Name: McKenna
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3067
Vessel Type: WarShip
Mass: 1,930,000 tons
Power Plant: Standard
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide
Armament:
80 Heavy Naval PPCs
12 NAC/35s
6 AR-10s
6 Screen launchers
160 ER PPCs
104 Pulse Small Lasers
1200 tons NAC/35 ammo
3600 tons missile ammo (600 tons/launcher)
600 tons screen ammo (60 shots/launcher)
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Class/Model/Name: Lyran McKenna
Mass: 1,930,000 tons
Equipment: Mass
Power Plant, Drive & Control: 347,400.00
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Kearny-Fuchida Hyperdrive: Compact (Integrity = 47) 873,325.00
Lithium Fusion Battery 19,300.00
Jump Sail: (Integrity = 7) 127.00
Structural Integrity: 150 289,500.00
Total Heat Sinks: 11,879 Double 11,000.00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 6,120.00
Bridge, Controls, Computer & Attitude Thrusters: 4,825.00
Fire Control Computers: 29,616.00
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide (5,790 total armor pts) 5,790.00
Capital Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Fore: 980
Fore-Left/Right: 980/980
Aft-Left/Right: 980/980
Aft: 980
Cargo:
Bay 1: Smallcraft (30) with 5 doors 6,000.00
Bay 1: Smallcraft (30) with 5 doors 6,000.00
Cargo (1) 33,836.00
DropShip Capacity: 6 Docking Hardpoints 6,000.00
Grav Decks #1 - 3: (45, 45, 75-meter diameter) 150.00
Life Boats: 200 (7 tons each) 1,400.00
Crew and Passengers: 916 9,160.00
FORWARD:
4 Heavy Naval PPCs
1 Screen Launcher (10 shots)
20 ER PPCs
13 Pulse Small Lasers
FORE LEFT / FORE RIGHT
12 Heavy Naval PPCs
4 NAC/35s (100 rounds/e)
2 AR-10s (600 tons of missiles/e)
1 Screen Launcher (10 shots)
20 ER PPCs
13 Pulse Small Lasers
LEFT BROADSIDE / RIGHT BROADSIDE
12 Heavy Naval PPCs
20 ER PPCs
13 Pulse Small Lasers
AFT LEFT / AFT RIGHT
12 Heavy Naval PPCs
2 NAC/35s (100 rounds/e)
1 Screen Launcher (10 shots)
20 ER PPCs
13 Pulse Small Lasers
AFT
4 Heavy Naval PPCs
4 NAC/35s (100 rounds/e)
2 AR-10s (600 tons of missiles/e)
1 Screen Launcher (10 shots)
20 ER PPCs
13 Pulse Small Lasers
The McKennas found by the Lyran Alliance had been abandoned in long-period, cometary orbits by their crews because, like so many other McKennas, "The design's reputation, however, made McKennas prime targets during the war to liberate Terra." About the only thing functional on the two hulks were the maneuvering drives and KF drive. But when you had those for a warship, everything else was just so much icing on the cake.
The Lyran engineers had on-site facilities for producing the necessary materials and since there was little demand elsewhere for the super-strong frame materials, they became...a little overenthusiastic...about reinforcing the gutted titans' damaged framework. Replacing the battered and stripped hull plating followed a similar design theory (if it could be called a theory). The vast cargo bays of the McKenna had been ripped open to space and just begged the Lyran engineers to put "something useful" in them during the reconstruction. The engineers caved into the pleas of the cargo bays by ordering far more Kreuss XX PPCs (as "spare parts" and "test articles," of course) than strictly necessary to repair the vessels. Expanded fuel tanks also went into the bays to keep the large complement of fighters happy during extended deployments. As with the Clan rebuild of the McKenna, the mech bays were removed (and had been pretty much evaporated in combat anyway). The original, huge NACs of the McKenna were replaced with pairs of slightly smaller cannons developed for the Mjolnir and used to stiffen the McKenna's chaser weaponry. As an afterthought, remote weapon blisters were welded to the hull to provide point defenses, anti-fighter weaponry, and to give the McKenna the new Inner Sphere screen launchers. The McKenna's tertiary battery of naval lasers were dismounted and sold to night clubs around the Lyran Alliance to provide special lighting effects. About the only weapon system that survived the reconstruction was the McKenna's original AR-10s, which were reputed to be balky. The Lyrans simply rebuilt the damaged ones rather than mess with launchers that finally worked.
Today, the Lyran McKenna's would bring tears to the eyes of a Star League McKenna crewman...seriously. The budget was running low when the secondary weapons were added, so they went onto the hull in crude blister mounts rather than sleeker, through-armor mounts. The much-thicker lamellor ferro-carbide armor was at the limits of Lyran engineering capacity to form, so it's mounted in crude, simple plates that ruin the original, graceful lines of the McKenna. The reinforced frame also distorted the lines of the ships. The budget was gone before the ships could be painted, leaving the pair of battleships bare-metal ugly, scorched in hundreds of places where welding has been performed (particularly around the 200+ secondary weapon mounts, which resemble an infectious skin condition). However, the life support works, the drives work, the weapons work - the ships work.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
Edited by Cray (08/15/02 11:23 AM)
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Bob_Richter
08/15/02 06:09 PM
4.35.174.250
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That fluff's classic.
I was thinking I might take a stab at the proto-leviathan (that is, the original design.) I'm not convinced the L2 is it, as both the Conqueror and the Leviathan were designed for use by Clan Ghost Bear and there's no way in bloody hell the Ghost Bears could come up with that many fighters.
-Bob (The Magnificent) Richter
Assertions made in this post are the humble opinion of Bob.
They are not necessarily statements of fact or decrees from God Himself, unless explicitly and seriously stated to be so.
:)
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Cray
08/16/02 09:14 PM
12.91.128.147
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Look in the Aerospace forum, in the "Leviathan 2" thread.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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NathanKell
08/23/02 03:36 PM
24.44.238.62
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Duuude.
That's all that need be said. 
-NathanKell, BT Space Wars
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