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| MASS:
247 NPV: 1009 Classification: Fleet Battleship (B) Crew: 136; 24 Officers, 112 Enlisted Crew Factor: 13 Hull Integrity: 48 (12/12/12/12) Armor: 12 Main Drive Thrust: 3 (37.1 TW) Drive Auto-Detection Range: 8.119 AU ∆V (Combat): 48.178 km/sec ∆V (Cruise): 963.569 km/sec Thrust Points: 96 (2803 tons propellant) Propellant Tank Hits: 6 Thrust Points per Tank: 16 FTL: Yes (Long Jump – 10 parsec range) Auxiliary Systems: 4-MASS Hangar Bay; 4-MASS Cargo Bay; 1x Enhanced Sensors; 0.8 G Spin Habitat for 136 Combat Systems: 3x Fire Control Weapons: 6x Point Defense Battery; 4x Class-2 Battery (All Arcs); 2x Class-4 Battery (F/FP/AP); 1x Class-4 Battery (FP/F/FS); 1x Class-4 Battery (F/FS/AS); 1x Meson Gun (F) |
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| The Nelson
Class represents the pinnacle of battleship design in human
space. As part of an aggressive shipbuilding program following
hostile actions against both Aztlan and Manchuria, the British Royal
Starfleet wanted a powerful new battleship capable of using the latest
in spinal mount weapons – the Meson Gun. The utilization of a
meson gun required that the battleship be maneuverable enough to put it
on target in spite of the weapon’s limited firing arc, and so the Nelson has a superior amount of
drive potential compared to other battleship classes. The massive
AMPLAR drives come at a great price – the Nelson’s beam battery, while still
impressive, is not as heavy as other battleships of similar
displacement, and the design is not as robust or as well armored as the
Admiralty prefer in their premier capital warships. The Nelson is, nonetheless, a powerful
capital ship, and the terrible force of its meson gun makes up for any
shortcomings in its beam battery armament. The large cargo
capacity and high fuel fraction also grants the Nelson impressive endurance.
While Parliament had originally insisted that the Nelson carry troops and landers,
the Admiralty prevailed upon them not to mandate that
requirement. As a compromise, the Nelson still has a large hangar bay
for small interface craft, and its crew is large enough to put a couple
dozen armed sailors on the surface of a world without compromising the
ship's manning. Four ships of the Nelson class were produced by Mercer Heavy Industries from 2355 to 2359 in their orbital shipyards around Terranova in the Alpha Centauri System, and two more were produced in orbit around the Fury System (HM+53 0102) in Sagittarius at the MHI Autofab Alfa facility as an acid test for the production capabilities of the new shipyard there. The two final Nelsons, HMS Rodney and HMS Jutland, were successfully completed, but required that critical electronic warfare systems as well as other subsystems be imported from the Orion Arm from subcontractors. Presumably, the SDC can order Nelson class battleships from Mercer Heavy Industries using equivalent in house subsystems, but as with the Manhattan and Trafalgar classes, there is an urgent need to produce smaller warships capable of patrolling the 70 inhabited star systems within 10 parsecs of Gateway, and so Nelson class battleships are not planned for production in the foreseeable future. |
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