Cray
11/07/03 10:17 PM
67.8.168.19
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AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout VALIDATED
Class/Model/Name: Beagle Argus Tech: Inner Sphere / 3067 Vessel Type: WarShip Rules: Level 3, Standard design Rules Set: AeroTech2
Mass: 250,000 tons K-F Drive System: (Unknown) Length: 1,500 meters Sail Diameter: 1,000 meters Power Plant: Standard Safe Thrust: 2 Maximum Thrust: 3 Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide Armament: 22 NL55 12 ER PPC 60 Small Pulse Laser ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==Overview:== The Beagle-class science ships were a mainstay of Star League exploration and astronomical efforts. They stood out for their pair of OWL Telescope arrays [1] on either side of the ship.
[1] http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/
The ships carry up to 500 researchers and support staff to the far reaches of the galaxy. With a significant cargo capacity, they delivered chains of free-floating HPGs to maintain communications with distant Star League research bases, delivered those same bases, and carried parts to operate away from base for extended periods.
==Capabilities:== The Beagles are easily mistaken for civilian jumpships. They average a bare 50m diameter for most of their 1500m length, with a disk-like 250m crew section at the bow (a mere 20m thick) and a 200m sphere at the stern. Most the needle-like hull is occupied by the KF drive core and a shell of liquid hydrogen reaction mass.
The triplet of docking collars is placed around the waist of the spherical engineering section, where the cargo bays are located. The Beagles have a very extensive automated manufactory in their engineering section. This "pressurized repair facility" is capable of replacing any part on the ship - even the fusion engines and KF core (large doors allow these components to be extruded).
The defining feature of the Beagle are the OWL Telescopes. These started out as the mirror arrays for the SLDF's "10000km (range) Naval Laser," but when the project failed due to unconquerable mirror jitter and deformation under combat maneuvering, the Star League was left with some truly awesome mirror designs. Star League astronomers snapped up the designs.
While astronomy stalled after 2100 due to the introduction of the jumpship and the ability to get CLOSE to astronomical objects, by the Star League era, there was demand against for OverWhelming Large (OWL) Telescopes. Jumpships could not get close to quasars a bajillion light-years away. They could, however, maneuver to useful positions that avoided dust and gas clouds between them and their targets. The OWL Telescopes were part of the solution; the mobile Beagles was the other.
The two OWL telescopes on each Beagle consist of ten 100-meter diameter mirrors in blisters along the spine of the ships. These giant mirror arrays use optical interferometry to effectively form a telescope 1250m in diameter. While much larger arrays have been formed with wider dispersed mirrors, none have the light gathering area of a single OWL mirror, let alone ten of them. A single (Star League-era) OWL mirror could've separated Jupiter from Sol at 100 light-years, and maybe spotted the Great Red Spot. Ten of them together had 100km resolution at 50 light-years, enough to map distant continents.
The Star League being the Star League, the two OWL Telescopes on the Beagles (and the partial OWL on the bow) retained their original naval laser function.
A platoon of marines was stationed on each Beagle to get scientists out of trouble when they got stranded, overwhelmed by natural disasters, etc.
==Variants:== The last 12 Beagles had the capacity to carry a dozen battlemechs (or workmechs) after some awkward "first contact" incidents with Deep (deep, deep) Periphery human colonies. Typically, one of the Beagle's dropships would return dropped battlemechs to the Beagle.
==Deployment== The Star League built 30 Beagles between 2652 and 2670; all had been decommissioned by 2750, replaced by the larger and more capable Constitution-class exploration ships (which boldly went where no man had gone before).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Class/Model/Name: Beagle Argus Mass: 250,000 tons
Equipment: Mass Power Plant, Drive & Control: 30,000.00 Thrust: Safe Thrust: 2 Maximum Thrust: 3 Kearny-Fuchida Hyperdrive: Compact (Integrity = 7) 113,125.00 Lithium Fusion Battery 2,500.00 Jump Sail: (Integrity = 3) 42.00 Structural Integrity: 10 2,500.00 Total Heat Sinks: 1,200 Double 911.00 Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 20,400.00 Bridge, Controls, Radar, Computer & Attitude Thrusters: 625.00 Fire Control Computers: .00 Food & Water: (400 days supply) 1,380.00 Hyperpulse Generator: 50.00 Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide (56 total armor pts) 50.00 Capital Scale Armor Pts Location: L / R Fore: 11 Fore-Left/Right: 9/9 Aft-Left/Right: 9/9 Aft: 9
Cargo: Bay 1: Press Repair Facil. (250,000 T Capy, 2 doors) 18,750.00 Bay 2: Small Craft (1) with 2 doors 200.00 Bay 3: Fighters (6) with 2 doors 900.00 Bay 4: Cargo (1) with 2 doors 18,453.00
DropShip Capacity: 3 Docking Hardpoints 3,000.00 Grav Decks #1 - 2: (250-meter diameter) 200.00 Escape Pods: 120 (7 tons each) 840.00
Crew and Passengers: 45 Officers (22 minimum) 450.00 100 Crew (50 minimum) 1,000.00 500 1st Class Passengers 5,000.00 28 Marines 280.00 17 Bay Personnel .00 Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 NL55 Nose 11 11 11 11 170 2,200.00 2 ER PPC Nose 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 30 14.00 10 Small Pulse Laser Nose 3(30) -- -- -- 20 10.00 2 ER PPC FL/R 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 60 28.00 10 Small Pulse Laser FL/R 3(30) -- -- -- 40 20.00 10 NL55 L/RBS 55 55 55 55 1700 22,000.00 2 ER PPC AL/R 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 60 28.00 10 Small Pulse Laser AL/R 3(30) -- -- -- 40 20.00 2 ER PPC Aft 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 30 14.00 10 Small Pulse Laser Aft 3(30) -- -- -- 20 10.00 1 Lot Spare Parts (2.00%) 5,000.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOTALS: Heat: 2,170 250,000.00 Tons Left: .00
Calculated Factors: Total Cost: 18,575,548,000 C-Bills Battle Value: 40,702 Cost per BV: 456,379.24 Weapon Value: 10,037 (Ratio = .25) Damage Factors: SRV = 1,399; MRV = 1,196; LRV = 907; ERV = 350 Maintenance: Maintenance Point Value (MPV) = 264,034 (19,680 Structure, 195,812 Life Support, 48,542 Weapons) Support Points (SP) = 210,425 (80% of MPV) BattleForce2: Not applicable
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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Ignorant_Savage
11/23/03 11:12 AM
24.197.176.136
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wow... i like this one. the back story you came up with is really cool. i think i might use this design (or something like it) in my campagin.
"Those who trade away essential freedoms for a little saftey deserve neither freedom or saftey."
- Benjamin Franklin
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Karagin
12/27/06 12:50 PM
70.123.166.36
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Ships like this really need to be done up for the canon setting more then warships...really these and other common ships need to see the light of day.
I like it! Well done.
Karagin
Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything.
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