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Onno Meyer, 2016-02-01
Corsair Mothership v1.0 (TL11)
Copyright 2016 by Onno Meyer
The Corsair Mothership is home to a small squadron of shuttlecraft and
aerospace fighters. Both the starship and her carried squadron are cheap
and expendable -- they are supposed to make a profit, not to win a war.
The upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, cell block, and engine
rooms. Each crew compartment has two triple bunks and each cell has two
quadruple bunks. The lower deck contains the hangar with front and rear
doors. Usually three 10-ton Corsair Skiffs are parked on the centerline
and ten 3-ton Corsair Fighters are parked along the sides.
The Mothership mounts a triple turret with 40mm gravitic cannon. The
beehive rounds are useful for point defense and soft targets. HE can be
used to wreck towns. The unstreamlined ship is restricted to a very low
speed in Earth standard atmospheres, so she stays in orbit if possible.
The hyperdrive and the grav cannon use the same power cell. It takes
14 hours to recharge the power for one hyperspace entry if the ship is
maneuvering, and 0.066 seconds to recharge one grav cannon shot. A full
load of 40mm ammunition and provisions is $565,000.
Subassemblies: Body +7, full-rotation Turret +3.
Powertrain: Six 200,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters;
1,500-ton hyperdrive; 75,000-kW fusion reactor; 540,000,000-kWs
rechargeable power cell.
Occ: 10 CCS, 60 bunks. Cargo: 1,250 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/360 4/360 4/360 4/360 4/360
Turret: 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240
Weaponry
Three 40mm Grav Cannon [Tu:F] (3,125 rounds each) +2.*
* Linked.
Equipment:
Body: Two extreme-range radios with scramblers; extreme-range radio
jammer; four medium-range neutrino communicators; two 750-mile AESAs;
two 750-lightsecond FTL radars; two 750-mile thermographs; 750-mile
multiscanner; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; 15-lightsecond FTL scan
detector; 15-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; precision navigation
instruments; IFF; transponder; two inertial navigation systems; HUDWAC
with pupil scanner; 25 aircraft decoy dischargers; two blip enhancers;
three C6 hardened minicomputers; ten terminals; two compact fire
suppression systems; engineering mini-workshop; ST 900 tractor beam;
automed; four forcelocks; brig (40 bunks); spacedock (for 6,000 cf of
subcraft); 200-man full life system; 15,000 man-days of provisions; two
grav units. Turret: Universal mounts. External: Basic emission cloaking;
basic stealth; liquid crystal skin; radiation shielding.
Statistics
Size: 64'x32'x24' Payload: 200,000 lbs. Lwt.: 600,000 lbs.
Volume: 30,000 cf Maint.: 24 man-hours Price: $6,399,200
HT: 7. HPs: 9,750 Body, 225 Turret.
aSpeed: 600 aAccel: 20 aDecel: 10 aMR: 2.5 aSR: 6
sAccel: 2 G sMR: 2 FTL Speed: 1 parsec per day
Design Notes
Cheaply made. Body is 29,880 cf, with underbelly skids. Turret is 120
cf. Structure is medium, cheap. Armor is cheap laminate. Sealed.
Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 6,250 rounds of
40mm HE and 3,125 rounds of 40mm Beehive are stowed in the Body. 77.9 cf
of empty space in the Body. Empty weight is 400,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
40mm Grav Cannon 1,200 24 $560,000 7,200 1.6 0.016 $380[1] 11
Ammo: [1] APDSHD, also fires HE (x0.1 cost), HEDP (x0.15 cost),
Beehive (x0.2 cost).
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
40mm Grav Cannon APDSHD ver. cr. 6d*50(5) 25 19 10,650 25,500 10
HE ver. exp.* 6d*3[4d] 25 19 7,100 17,000 10
HEDP ver. exp.* 6d*2(5)[4d] 25 19 7,100 17,000 10
Beehive ver. imp. 6d*2 25 19 7,100 17,000 10
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, July 2010 errata], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: The fighter.
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