The Regulator

990 ton System Defense Boat

Ship's Stats for TNE are below

Ship's Stats in USD format for Marc Miller's Traveller

The Regulator Class System Defense Boats were built and first put into service at Gresham ( 3138 Diaspora Sector) in 1098. Since then Regulators have been stationed on numerous worlds throughout the Diaspora, Daibei, Solomani Rim, Old Expanses and Delphi Sectors. The Regulator is a balanced combination of offensive punch and defensive toughness. Their offensive punch come from a combination of its 2,500MJ Particle weapon, its 12 375MJ lasers and its missile bay with 40 ready missiles. Balancing out its Punch is its defensive toughness with from 6.4cm of bonded superdense armor, 12 sandcaster turrets, nuclear damper, meson screen and 750 sensor decoys. There are two less common variants of the Regulator. One replaces the particle weapon with a 1,000MJ meson gun, while the other does away with the main weapon altogether making room for additional fuel. In general practice Regulator squadrons are made up of 4 to 8 boats with no more than 1 boat having a meson gun for it main weapon and the rest having particle weapons. In areas more distant from the Imperial boarders it not uncommon to find the additional fuel Regulators where their longer endurance is more important than having a main weapon. The 3481st Defense Squadron station at Scaramouche ( 2509 Solomani Rim Sector) is unusual because all 4 of the Regulators in the squadron have meson guns. The planet of Neefi ( 2210 Diaspora) received a squadron of additional fuel Regulators shortly after completing its new class C starport. Unfortunately the First Neefi Defense Squadron has become know throughout the sector as the Party Squadron. This is due in some part because of the squadron commander’s relaxed leadership style and the boats being crewed mostly with locals. However, the primary reason the First Neefi Defense Squadron is know as the Party Squadron is probably the names of the squadrons 5 boats: the Adams, Foster, Weinhard, Labatt, and Guinness

TNE stats

Ship's Specifications

General

Displacement: 990 tons
Hull Armor: 180
Length: 89.5 meters
Volume: 13,860m3
Price: 613.7MCr
Target Size: S
Configuration: Needle, AF
Tech Level: 15
Mass Loaded/Empty: 11,703/11,298tons

Engineering Data

Power Plant: 4,250 MW Fusion Power Plant (303.6 MW per hit) 36 days duration
Jump Performance: None
G-Rating: 6.0G HEPlaR (582.1 MW/G), Auxiliary 1G High Efficiency AG (83.16 MW/G)
G-Turns: 72 (6 hours at full thrust)
Maint: 337

Electronics

Computers: 3xTL-15 Mod fb (1.1 MW) computers
Commo: 2x1000AU radio (20 MW ea.), 2x1000AU maser (0.6 MW ea.), 2x1000AU laser (0.3MW ea.)
Avionics: TL-10+ avionics
Sensors: 1x Passive EMS 240,000km folding array (8 hexes, 0.3 MW), 1x Passive EMS 240,000km fixed arrays (4 hexes, 0.1 MW), 2x Active EMS 480,000km (16 hexes, 25MW ea.), 1x Active EMS 240,000km (8 hexes, 13MW), 1xLadar 300,000 (10 hex, 0.6MW)
ECM: 1x EMS Jammer 240,000km (8 hexes, 26MW), 1x Radio Jammer 1000AU (40MW)
EMM: EM masking (13.9 MW)
Controls: Holographic Linked, 29x Bridge Workstations; 31x Normal Workstaions

Armament

Offensive: 1xTL-15 2,500MJ N-PAW (Loc: 1, Arcs: 1,2,3; 69.4MW), 12xTL-15 375MJ X-Ray Laser custom barbettes (Loc: 10,11; Arcs: All; 10.4MW ea.), Missile Bay with 2x launchers (Loc: 2,3; 40 Ready Missiles)
The N-PAW may be overpowerd:
-3 Diff Mods with 1,388.9MW power input
-2 Diff Mods with 694.4MW power input
-1 Diff Mods with 347.2MW power input-2 Diff Mods with 277.8MW power input
The Laser Barbettes may be overpowered:
-5 Diff Mods with 833.3MW power input
-4 Diff Mods with 416.7MW power input
-3 Diff Mods with 208.3MW power input
-2 Diff Mods with 104.2MW power input
-1 Diff Mods with 52.1MW power input
Deffensive: 12xSand caster turrets(Loc: 1, Arcs:1,2,3; Loc: 8,9,14,15, Arcs: All; Loc: 16,17,18,19, Arcs: 2,3,4,5; 1MW), 1xMeson screen (225PV, 7.9MW), Nuclear Damper Screen (3 hex, 9MW), 2,700xDecoy Dispensers (due to cost constraints only 750 Decoys are loaded, 250 Anti-AEMS, 250 Anti-PEMS, 250 Anti-Ladar; Decoys cost 25,000Cr ea.)
Master Fire Director: 15xTL-15 (6 Dif Mod; 10 hexes; .06 MW; 15 gunners)

                   ROF        Short       Medium      Long        Extreme
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2,500MJ N-PAW      200max     10:250      20:250      40:250      80:147
375Mj Laser        800max     10:1/15-48  20:1/15-48  40:1/15-48  80:1/15-48

Accommodations

Life Support: Extended (1.6 MW), Gravitic Compensators (6G; 39.3MW)
Crew: 86
- Command: 11 (1x Captain, 1x Executive Officer, 1x Engineering Chief, 2xWeapons Officer, 1xTactical Officer, 1xProcurment Officer, 1xSensor Officer, 1xInformation System Officer, 1xScreens Officer, 1xClerk)
- Maneuvering: 2 (1x Senior Pilot, 1x Pilots)
- Electronics: 2 (1x Sensors Operator, 1x Communications Operator)
- Engineering: 28 (20x Power Technicians, 5x Engineers, 3x Utility Workers)
- Maintenance: 3 (1x Mechanic, 1x LAN Administrator, 1x Janitor)
- Weapons: 30 (12x Laser Gunners, 1x PAW Gunner, 2x Missile Operators, 12x Sancaster Gunners, 1x Nuclear Damper Operator, 2xMeson Screen Operators)
- Troops: 8 (1x Leader, 1xSub Leader, 6x Troopers)
- Medical: 2 (1x Doctor, 1x Really Large Lab Rat Who Helps Out Around the Sickbay)
Crew Accommodations: 22x Large Stateroom (Quadruple to double occupancy), 8x Large Staterooms (Officer quarters, 6x single, 2x double Occupancy), 1x Bunkroom (12xBunks), 10x Low Berths; an additional 80m3 for various crew facilities
Passenger Accommodations: None
Cargo: 181m3, 1 large cargo hatches; 20m3 ship's locker
Air Locks: 5 (10m3 ea.)
Small Craft Facilities: None

Other

Fuel Systems: Fuel scoops (5% of ship surface fills tanks in 1.91 hours), Fuel Purifiers (850kl/hour; 37.3 hours for 5,281.6kl; 4.25MW)
Other Facilities: Sick Bay, Machine Shop, Electronics Shop

Damage Tables


Area   Surface Hits        Internal Damage                    Systems
(1D20)
1      1, AL: 2-11, Ant     1-12, Wpn: 13-20, Fuel            PP-14H    MD-4H
2-3    1-10, Ant            Fuel                              FPP-4H    AG-2H
4-5    1-9, Ant             1-10, Wpn: 11-20, Fuel            FT-53H    AL-5x1h
6-7    1-5 Scr              1-10, Elec: 11-20, Qrts           LS-25H    HULL-10H
8-9                         1-4, Wpn: 5-19, Qrts: 20, Fuel    AEMS-2x2h ELS-13H
10-11                       Wpn                               PEMS-1h   MFD-15x2h
12-13                       1-10, Elec: 11-20, Qrts           EMM-1H    PEMS Ant-2h
14-15                       1-4, Wpn: 5-20, Fuel              MS-1H     EMM Rad-13h
16-17  1-4, EMM Rad         1-4, Eng: 5-20, Fuel              LSR-30x1H ND-1H
18-19  1-4, EMM Rad: 5, CH  1-5, Hold: 6-9, Eng: 10-20, Fuel  LT-12x1H  LBth-10x1h
20     1: AL                Eng                               ST-12x1H  All Others-1h
                                                              PA-12H

Battle Rider stats

P10:7-7-7-4       -1
-    Tl:13
-    FC:-6
L(*12)10:2-2-2-2 M:12(40)
A:12 P:8 J:8 Msk (SP) G6
AV:5        -
MS:6 SC:12 D:1    15/23

Varients

There are 2 major variations of the Regulator class. The first variation replaces the Particle Accelerator (N-PAW) with a Meson Gun while the second one replaces the N-PAW with additional fuel tankage.

The Major differences between the Meson and the N-PAW versions are:
Price: 644.5MCr
Weight Loaded/Empty: 11,304.6/10,902.7
G-Rating: 6.1G HEPlaR (568.3 MW/G)
G-Turns: 73.2 (6 hours at full thrust)
1xTL-15 1,000MJ Meson gun (Loc: 1, Arcs: ,27.8MW)
The Meson Gun may be overpowerd:
-2 Diff Mods with 277.8MW power input
-1 Diff Mods with 138.9MW power input

                   ROF                Effective  Very Short  Short  Medium  Long
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1,000Mj Meson Gun  100max(10 typical) 3:158      5:100       10:50  20:25   27:13

The Major differences between the Additional Fuel and the N-PAW versions are:
Price: 559.8MCr
Weight Loaded/Empty: 10,501.2/10,037.4
G-Rating: 6.6 (526.7MW/G)
G-Turns: 92.4 (7 hours at full thrust)

Notes:

This boat was designed with acceleration based on the boat's mass. However if Regulator's acceleration was based on Volume the Regulator could have an Armor Rating of 300 , Acceleration of 7.0Gs (495MW/G), 84 G-truns (6hours at full thrust), Fuel tankage of 5,237.9m3, Total power usage of 3928MW (for a power surplus of 322MW), and a price of 613.3MCr and still be a legal FF&S (TNE edition) design.
This boat was designed with the assitance of Antti Lahtinen's most excellent spreadsheet.
And a thanks to Michael Koehne for the Battle Rider stats.

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