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| MASS:
245 NPV: 975 Classification: Fleet Battleship (B) Crew: 172; 24 Officers, 123 Enlisted, plus 25 troops Crew Factor: 13 Hull Integrity: 52 (13/13/13/13) Armor: 13 Main Drive Thrust: 3 (36.8 TW) Drive Auto-Detection Range: 8.086 AU ∆V (Combat): 50.124 km/sec ∆V (Cruise): 1002.482 km/sec Thrust Points: 100 (2909 tons propellant) Propellant Tank Hits: 6 Thrust Points per Tank: 4x16, 2x18 FTL: Yes (Long Jump – 10 parsec range) Auxiliary Systems: 4-MASS Hangar Bay; 4-MASS Cargo Bay; 2-MASS Troop Bay; 1x Enhanced Sensors; 0.8 G Spin Habitat for 172 Combat Systems: 3x Fire Control Weapons: 6x Point Defense Battery; 4x Class-2 Battery (All Arcs); 1x Class-4 Battery (F/FP/AP); 1x Class-4 Battery (FP/F/FS); 1x Class-4 Battery (F/FS/AS); 12x Light Antiship Missile (may carry 1 Medium Antiship at a cost of 2 Light Missiles, or 1 Heavy Antiship at a cost of 3 Light Missiles) |
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| The Alaska
class battleship is an American design dating back to 2312 and as such
was scheduled for reassignment to the fleet reserve force at the time
of the Stargate crash. As a capital warship, the design predates
the introduction of practical meson weapons, and carries a mix of laser
batteries and a hefty missile armament for its striking power in place
of a heavy spinal mount. The missile magazine is a modular cell
design allowing a mix of light, medium, and heavy antiship missiles to
be carried without having to worry about separate launch tubes and
loading systems. USSF combat doctrine called for point defense
saturation of enemy combatants using light missiles launched from
missile cruisers and frigates, while landing the killing blow with
medium and heavy missiles from the battleships. In many cases Alaskas were loaded with six light
and two heavy missiles, or six light and three medium missiles when
operating without a missile cruiser in the task force in order to
achieve this saturation/kill strike on their own. While this
heavy missile strike capability was considerable, it also meant that a
large percentage of the ship's displacement that could have been set
aside for persistent weapons such as lasers was taken up by expendable
munitions, making resupply while deployed a critical
consideration. The United States was capable of fielding a large
enough merchant marine force to keep its Alaskas fully armed anywhere in
space, but few other great powers were willing or able to go to such
expense. In other aspects, the Alaska
is robust, relatively agile, and possessed of good endurance. It
carries three squads of U.S. Marines in addition to a large number of
armed sailors it can field in a pinch, and has sufficient hangar
capacity to put them on the surface of a colony in one wave of
landers. |
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