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Patriot Class Light Cruiser

design by David A. Nelson

The Patriot Class Light Cruiser: The first ship of the patriot class was laid down in 1088. Know as the Broadsword Bruiser by Imperaial Intelligence, little was know about these ship unitl 1093. A shooting incident took place on the edge of Imperial space between a squadron of Imperial Destroyers and a Patriot Class ship of the "Solomani Home Gurad." This gave the Imperuim its insight into the ship's ablities.

The Patriot class main 10000mj meson gun, is backed up by 2 forward firing 3000mj PAW and one 3000mj rear mounted PAW. 10 10ton missle bay and 200 turret sockets round out the patroit's armament. 4 1000mj short range planetary bombardment mason gun are also part of the ship armament.

With J-5 and 4gs of manoever, it seems that Solomani plans call this class to be used as a fleet intruder. Driving deep into enemy territory, the patroit class will inflict damage on an emeny worlds and shipping, then escape before reinforcement can be brought to bare.

The Patriot class is still known as the Broadsword class in Imperail Navy circles because of its unique configuration. The long thin fore-section resembles a blade of a sword, and the round engineering section resembles a hilt.

Patriot Light Cruiser

General Data

Engineering Data

Power Plant: 73000wm Fusion PowerPlant (100mw/hit) 1.9 month duration

Jump Performance: 5

Jump Fuel: 25,200 m³

G-Rating: 4g (15.000mw/g), Contra-Grav lifters (93.000mw)

G-Turns: 49.52g, 117.2 using all jump fuel, (1875m each)

Maint: 22,786

Electronics

Computer: 8xTL-14 Fb Computers (1mw each)

Commo: 10 x 1000 Au laser (**,.3mw each); 4x10000 AU maser (**, .6mw each), 3x 1000Au Radio (**,20mw each)

Avionics:

Sensors: 6x 480000km actiem ems (16hex, 25mw each); 3x 240000km passive EMS folding array (8 hex, .3mw each), 3x 180000km passive EMS fixed array (6hex, .2mw each), 1x densitometers; 1x neutrino sensor

ECM/ECCM: EMM masking package (420mw), 300000km EMM jammer (10hex, 60mw)

Controls: bridge with 165 bridge workstations, auxiliiary bridge work stations and 608 normal workstaions

Armament

Offensive TL-14 10000mj mason gun, loc:spine arcs: 1 mw:2777.8 (-2diff mods), crew:62; TL-14 3000mj Paw, loc: spine, arcs: 1,1,6 mw: 833 (-2 diff mods),crew:3 each; 100 TL-14 105mj Laser turrets, locs: 10 at 1 arcs: 1,2; 4 at locs: 2-5 arcs: 1,2,3,4; 4 at locs: 6-9 arcs: 1,2,3,4,5; 29 at locs: 14 and 15 arcs: 2,3,4,5 crew: one (usualy none, fired from MFD) 41.666mw each (-2 diff mods), 10 100 ton missle bays (locs 6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,14,15) crew:1 each; 4x1000mj mason gun, locs: 15,15,14,14 crew none (surface bombardment only) 277.7 mw each (-2 diff mods)

Defensive: 100 TL-14 sandcasters: 20 at loc 15,14 arcs:2,3,4,5,6; 7 at locs: 2-5 arcs:1,2,3 7 at locs: 6-9 arcs: 2,3,4,5, 4 at loc 1 arcs: 1,2. 1 crew each; 1 mw each 2d6x5 per hit, 50 cans each. 1x TL-14 300 mw mason screen (pv=606) crew 11

Master Fire Directors: 50 x Tl-14 missile/beam Mfd (5 diff mods/missles 10 hex 1.77mw each; 1 crew each)

area           surface hit          internal explosion
 1              1-16 ant       (1-6) weapons   	(7-20) hold
 2-7            1-12 ant       (1-2) weapons   	(3-20) hold
 8-9            1  emmr        (1-3) weapons 	(4-9) elec 	(10-20) hold
 10-13          1-12 emmr      (1-15) hold 	(16-20) quarters
 14-15                         (1-10) weapon 	11 elecs 	(12-20) hold
 16-17                         (1-15) eng 	(16-20) hold
 18-20                         Eng

system hit capacity: MD: 60H; CG: 60H; JD 830M; FFP:450; PP: 730; MS 1M; E-SHOP
: 1M; HANGERS: 1M; AG: 41M; LS: 318M; ELS: 159M;  MEDICAL BAYS: 1M; SSR: 2m; LS
R 1M; EMM: 42m; EMMR: 420m; pemsa (folding array) 3M; mason gun 19M; Paws 9M; m
mason screen: 450M; Lt: 1M; sand: 1M small mason guns 1M; all other systems 1m
hit each.