The Erlir Class Patrol Cruiser is built by the Ansha Starship Cooperative on Ansha. Ansha has long been in a state of cold war with the nearby world of Gadirur. When the Imperial expansion came Ansha quickly become a member of the Imperium. Ansha benefited from its membership in the Imperium by gaining allied against Gadirur while the Imperium gained a means of keeping Gadirur, which had been hostile to Imperium advances, in check. The Erlir Class Patrol Cruiser is the first ship to be built by the Ansha Starship Cooperative that is fully compatible with Imperial Naval Service standards. Despite full comparability with INS standards, the Erlir class is distinctly different from typical Imperial vessels in appearance. Like all ship built on Ansha the Erlir has a very organic shape. Even more striking than the shape are the wild colour schemes that are exhibited on Ansha ships. The abstract color schemes are painted on the ships by artist priests, who while having to follow certain guidelines still maintain much freedom to determine the ship's final apperance.
ROF Very Short Short Medium Long ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TL12 251Mj Laser 100 10: 1/13-40 20: 1/11-33 40: 1/5-17 80: 1/3-8
Area (1D20) Surface Hits Systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Elec JD-8H MD-11H 2-3 1-13, Ant 1-6, Elec; 7-19, Qtrs; PP-48H AG-2H 20 Wpns FPP-2H AL-6x1h 4 1, AL; 2-13, Ant 1-6, Elec; 7-19, Qtrs; FT-18H HULL-4H 20 Wpns LS-9H ELS-5H 5 1-12, Ant 1-6, Elec; 7-19, Qtrs; AEMS-2h MFD-6x1H 20 Wpns PEMS-1h PEMS Ant-1h 6-7 1, AL; 2-5, Screen Wpns EMM-1H EMM Rad-8h 8-9 1-4, Screen Wpns MS-1H ND-2x1H 10-11 1-2, Eng; 3-13, Wpns; LSR-5x1H SSR-20x2h 14-20 Fuel LT-20x1H All Others-1h 12-15 Fuel ST-2x1H 16-17 1-4, EMM Rad Eng 18-19 1, AL; 2-5, EMM Rad Eng 20 1, AL Eng
Erlir Class Patrol Cruiser (Type PC) (QSDS 1.5, The Big Hull List & SSDS) Tons: 600dton (Needle S) Volume: 8400 m3 Cost: 884.8MCr (669.3MCr) Crew: 23 Hi/Md P: 2 Low P: 0 Cargo: 12.6dton Controls: Fib/Bridge TL: 12 Size: 8 2 Jump (60dton/Pc Fuel) 4 Maneuver (T-plate, 24000 T/Thr) Lsr trt 4x(+4) 1/6-5-3-2 8 Power Plant (2000 + 200, 200 MW) Msl barb 2 126.4 Fuel (S 240 R 3) MFD 2x(+4) (8 ctrld) 4 Meson Screen (6 MW) 2 Sandcasters (60 cans) 1 Sickbay 8dton 2 Nuclear Damper (15 MW) A16 P5 J16 Sensors (EMM 8.4MW) 20 Armor 19 Structure 96.8 Length (m) Crew: 23 (2 elec 4 engr 2 mnvr 6 gun 5 scrn 3 cmd 1 medic 4 troops) Notes: The ship has 24 bunks, 5 large staterooms and an additional 20tons of facilities to accommodate the ship’s crew and two additional passengers. While at full acceleration, 4Gs, the ship’s crew can operate a full efficiency as long as they are strapped into their work stations. However, in order for damage control operations to take place the ship can only use a maximum of 3Gs of acceleration. The ship’s 4 laser batteries with five lasers each can easily be configured to operate as 2 batteries with 10 lasers each and would have a rating of (+4) 1/9-9-5-3. There is only enough fuel for the power plant to run at full power for 3 months
The Erlir is pretty much a typical Patrol Cruiser.
The design favors features over cost.
The design was done with the assistance of Craig Barry’s QSDS spread sheet and includes
a hull from Guy Garrnett’s Big Hull List and EMM from SSDS. To get the TNE style data the
ship was roughly redesinged using FF&S and a spreadsheet found
at the Vyborg campaign home page. The ship acceration is the only
real difference between the TNE style design and the T4 design. The acceleration of the TNE
Style design is based on the mass of the ship and is only 2Gs, while the T4 design is based on
volume and is 4Gs. Personally I preffer using mass based acceleration. The length for the ship
was roughly calculated from drawings of the ship. And finally a thanks to Dr. Mark Clark for
posting his design to the TML. After seeing his design I decided to spilt the 2 batteries of
10 lasers into 4 batteries of 5.
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