Bob_Richter
08/09/09 06:46 PM
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AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout
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Class/Model/Name: Atlantis (Light Battleship)
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3060
Vessel Type: WarShip
Rules: Level 2, Standard design
Rules Set: AeroTech2
Mass: 960,000 tons
Hull: Thera Project Type 7C
K-F Drive System: Hermes NS96
Length: 1,130 meters
Sail Diameter: 1,020 meters
Power Plant: Hermes HN96000 Standard
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Armor Type: Valiant Lamellor Ferro-carbide
Armament:
40 Ceres Arms Astrogator Heavy NPPC
6 Imperator M3062N Heavy N-Gauss
8 Kali Yama M3065N Screen Launcher
12 Kali Yama M3059N AR10 Launcher
24 Imperator M3062 Light Gauss Rifle
18 Diverse Optics Sunbeam ER Large Laser
31 LFN Lindblad Shotgun AMS
4 Imperator M3057N NAC/30
9 Aberdovey Large Pulse Laser
Manufacturer: Illium Shipyards
Location: Ionus
Communications System: Irian Orator 40000
Targeting & Tracking System: Wasat Fleet Series 7
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==Overview:==
Initially classified as "Fleet Defense Support Vessels," the Atlantis-class
Battleships were intended as the primary close-defense escort for the New
Model Fleet designed in the wake of the Captain Generals' War. Inspired by the
blatant deficiencies in older Free Worlds' League fleet vessels, such as the
Eagle Frigate and Agamemnon Heavy Cruisers (known to crews an opponents alike
as the "suicide box,") the Atlantis Battleships were designed on the heavily
fortified hull of the very supercarriers they were intended to escort.
Put into rapid production in the late 3070s and early 3080s, the Atlantis is
the most common heavy warship in Four Powers Alliance fleets at the end of the
31st Century. Now classified as a "Light" or "Second-Class" Battleship, it
nevertheless joins battle-lines alongside heavier and more capable vessels and
essentially forms the capital backbone of the modern FPA fleet.
==Capabilities:==
Despite its considerably lower mass, the Atlantis-class Battleship can claim
offensive and defensive capabilities to rival any of the older Battleships
deployed by the navies of the Inner Sphere and Clans. Defensive capability is
provided by a slight modification of the original Thera Project hull, with a
slightly up-armored broadside and much-reduced fighter bay. These two factors
provide the vessel with both stronger armor plating and a more resilient hull
than relics like the Texas, or even relatively modern vessels like the Clan
Snow Raven Nightlord.
Offensive capability is provided by an all-new armament, centered around forty
Capellan-produced Heavy Naval Particle Cannons. This superlative system
replaced a massive battery of heavy naval lasers in the initial design, easing
the load on the ship's fire-control systems considerably, and boosting its
firepower well into the battleship range. Augmenting this primary battery is a
secondary battery comprised of six Heavy Naval Gauss Cannons. Despite their
limited ammunition capacity, these massive weapons can penetrate all but the
thickest armor plate, devastating lighter naval vessels.
A reworked defensive armament further eases fire-control loading by using
multipurpose AR-10 Naval Missile launchers as the core of the system. These
twelve versatile launchers can accept any of the many naval missile types now
produced in the FPA, reducing the need for manufacturing standardization
across four very diverse star-nations. Also of note, though the FPA admits to
no such capability, is the implicit nuclear capability of these systems.
Eight Capital Screen Launchers provide limited defense against long-range fire
and incidental anti-strikecraft capability, and are further aided by a small
battery of light gauss rifles, various 8cm laser cannons, and an impressive
battery of 30mm phalanx guns.
Though strike-craft capacity was reduced, Atlantis-class Battleships host two
full wings of aerospace craft, as well as the same spacious small-craft bay
found on other Thera-project vessels, and retain the capability to transport
four Dropships through hyperspace.
Though the ship is somewhat lacking in cargo capacity, it is not especially
noted for this deficiency, as the large aerospace wings deployed by the
Santorini (Thera) Class carriers consume considerably more of its more
generous cargo volume.
==Battle History:==
Produced in an era of relative peace, these vessels have never faced another
Battleship in action. Though the FPA United Admiralty is said to remain
confident of the vessel's battle-line capability, our analysts have mixed
opinions of the vessel's ability to challenge Star League classes.
==Variants:==
Though early vessels were produced with a more robust fire-control system and
a large battery of naval lasers, all of these are believed to have been
upgraded with the new particle cannons as of 3085.
==Notable Vessels & Crews:==
FWL - Atlantis (3072, Prototype), Vesuvius (3074), Kos (3076), Nisyros (3076,
whereabouts unknown, presumed lost), Methana (3076), Crete (3077), Thasos
(3078), Samothraki (3078), Delos (3079), Kythnos (3079), Rhineia (3079),
Pompeii (3081), Aegina (3081), Hydra (3082), Spetses (3082), Falkonera (3082),
Samos (3082), Lemnos (3082), Chrissi (3083), Kalydon (3083), Trikeri (3084),
Lithari (3085), Peloponnisos (3086), Euboea (3088, scrapped 3098 after a
collision with CCS Kursk), Milos (3089, presumed lost in KF Drive failure,
3089)
United Admiralty - Akrotiri (3078, Flagship), Anatolia (3078), Cyprus (3079),
Janos Marik (3079), Wutai Shan (3080), Emei Shan (3081), Jiuhua Shan (3081),
Putuo Shan (3082), Grover Shraplen (3082), Naomi Centrella (3083)
Capellan Confederation - Tai Shan (3077), Hua Shan (3078), Nan Heng Shan
(3079), Bei Heng Shan (3079), Song Shan (3080)
Magistracy of Canopus - Lesbos (3073), Babylon (3075), Ishtar (3076), Venus
(3077), Aphrodite (3077)
Taurian Concordat - Taurus (3077, Flagship), Dreadnought (3077), Tirpitz
(3080), Temeraire (3083), Achille (3089)
==Deployment==
As noted above, Atlantis-class Battleships can be found in nearly every battle
squadron and task group in the FPA, and vessels of this class are deployed in
each of the FPA navies, with over twenty deployed with the FWL navy alone, and
no less than five in the Taurian Defense Force.
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Class/Model/Name: Atlantis (Light Battleship)
Mass: 960,000 tons
Equipment: Mass
Power Plant, Drive & Control: 172,800.00
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Kearny-Fuchida Hyperdrive: Compact (Integrity = 19) 434,400.00
Lithium Fusion Battery 9,600.00
Jump Sail: (Integrity = 5) 78.00
Structural Integrity: 90 86,400.00
Total Heat Sinks: 5,633 Double 5,001.00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 1,428.00
Bridge, Controls, Radar, Computer & Attitude Thrusters: 2,400.00
Fire Control Computers: .00
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide (1,782 total armor pts) 1,728.00
Capital Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Fore: 300
Fore-Left/Right: 304/304
Aft-Left/Right: 291/291
Aft: 292
Cargo:
Bay 1: Fighters (18) with 4 doors 2,700.00
Small Craft (4) 800.00
Bay 2: Fighters (18) with 4 doors 2,700.00
Small Craft (4) 800.00
Bay 3: Cargo (1) with 10 doors 23,588.50
DropShip Capacity: 4 Docking Hardpoints 4,000.00
Grav Decks #1 - 2: (130-meter diameter) 200.00
Grav Deck #3: (110-meter diameter) 100.00
Life Boats: 70 (7 tons each) 490.00
Escape Pods: 70 (7 tons each) 490.00
Crew and Passengers:
60 Officers (58 minimum) 600.00
200 Crew (177 minimum) 1,400.00
90 Gunners (84 minimum) 630.00
182 Steerage Passengers 910.00
100 Marine Battle Armor Troopers/Elementals 700.00
112 Bay Personnel .00
Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass
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4 Heavy NPPC Nose 60 60 60 60 900 12,000.00
2 Heavy N-Gauss(200 rounds)Nose 60 60 60 60 36 14,100.00
2 Screen Launcher(200 scrnsNose -- -- -- -- 20 2,080.00
2 AR10 (20 KW, 20 WS, 20 B)Nose * * * * 40 2,900.00
3 Light Gauss Rifle(320 rouNose 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 3 56.00
3 ER Large Laser Nose 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) -- 36 15.00
4 AMS(4800 rounds) Nose -- -- -- -- 4 402.00
4 Heavy NPPC FL/R 60 60 60 60 1800 24,000.00
2 NAC/30(200 rounds) FL/R 60 60 60 -- 400 14,320.00
2 AR10 (20 KW, 20 WS, 20 B)FL/R * * * * 80 5,800.00
3 Light Gauss Rifle(320 rouFL/R 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 6 112.00
3 Large Pulse Laser FL/R 3(27) 3(27) -- -- 60 42.00
4 AMS(4800 rounds) FL/R -- -- -- -- 8 804.00
4 Heavy NPPC L/RBS 60 60 60 60 1800 24,000.00
4 Heavy NPPC L/RBS 60 60 60 60 1800 24,000.00
2 Screen Launcher(200 scrnsL/RBS -- -- -- -- 40 4,160.00
3 Light Gauss Rifle(320 rouL/RBS 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 6 112.00
3 ER Large Laser L/RBS 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) -- 72 30.00
4 AMS(4800 rounds) L/RBS -- -- -- -- 8 804.00
4 Heavy NPPC AL/R 60 60 60 60 1800 24,000.00
2 Heavy N-Gauss(200 rounds)AL/R 60 60 60 60 72 28,200.00
2 AR10 (20 KW, 20 WS, 20 B)AL/R * * * * 80 5,800.00
3 Light Gauss Rifle(320 rouAL/R 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 6 112.00
3 ER Large Laser AL/R 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) -- 72 30.00
4 AMS(4800 rounds) AL/R -- -- -- -- 8 804.00
4 Heavy NPPC Aft 60 60 60 60 900 12,000.00
2 Screen Launcher(200 scrnsAft -- -- -- -- 20 2,080.00
2 AR10 (20 KW, 20 WS, 20 B)Aft * * * * 40 2,900.00
3 Light Gauss Rifle(320 rouAft 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) 3 56.00
3 ER Large Laser Aft 2(24) 2(24) 2(24) -- 36 15.00
3 Large Pulse Laser Aft 3(27) 3(27) -- -- 30 21.00
3 AMS(3600 rounds) Aft -- -- -- -- 3 301.50
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TOTALS: Heat: 10,189 960,000.00
Tons Left: .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 16,337,505,200 C-Bills
Battle Value: 211,745
Cost per BV: 77,156.51
Weapon Value: 126,853 (Ratio = .60)
Damage Factors: SRV = 9,164; MRV = 9,007; LRV = 6,942; ERV = 2,729
Maintenance: Maintenance Point Value (MPV) = 694,607
(101,944 Structure, 253,440 Life Support, 339,223 Weapons)
Support Points (SP) = 404,020 (58% of MPV)
BattleForce2: Not applicable
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Bob_Richter
08/13/09 08:19 AM
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I see the Atlantis as more of an historical footnote. Though it's a fine ship, it was already outclassed by other nations' battleships when it debuted. At this point in its history, the FWL is far less interested in large capital warships than in using large groups of fighter craft to destroy them. It sees the super-carrier, not the Battleship, as the power-vessel of the future.
Thanks for the kind words. I put a lot of effort into the fluff for my ships, and I'm always glad when someone enjoys it.
-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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