Baron

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Baron
Production information
Manufacturer	???
Use	Destroyer
Tech Base	Star League
Cost	???
Introduced	2520
Technical specifications
Mass	480,000 tons
Length	545.5 meters
Top Thrust	3G
LF Battery	No
Armament	*19 x NL35 Captal Lasers 4 x NAC/10 Capital AC 4 White Shark Missile Launchers
Armor	256 tons Improved Ferro-Aluminum Armor
DropShip Capacity	0
Crew	40 Officers, 150 enlisted/un-rated, 43 gunners, 42 bay personnel, 10 first class passengers, 20 second class passengers
Grav Decks	1 (65 meters diameter)
Escape Pods/Life Boats	38/13
Heat Sinks	1,100
BV (1.0)	34,661
BV (2.0)

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[edit] Description

The Baron Class Destroyer was a moderately effective design that suffered due to protracted development and construction. With initial construction beginning in 2515 in the midst of a massive arms race intended to allow the Terran Hegemony to maintain it's edge against the Great Houses, flaws were discovered with Baron Class' then revolutionary interplanetary engines. While the fault was correctable, it took 2 years and greatly reduced their performance, by which point naval design had marched steadily onward and the Baron Class was considered second rate before a single ship had slipped it's moorings. By 2582 the Star League had presented over half the constructed Barons to its member states, and though it would see action in the Reunification War, the design became much maligned.

The design's sole saving graces were its generously sized fuel bunkers and accommodations for 30 extra passengers, which caused many high ranking Star League diplomats to select ships of the Baron Class as heavily armed transports into high risk areas of the Periphery. However by 2720, the SLDF had decommissioned and sold the remaining ships to the Great Houses, where they served until being destroyed during the early Succession Wars.

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