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79 NPV: 429 Classification: Stealth Frigate (FS) Crew: 40; 6 Officers, 34 Enlisted Crew Factor: 4 Hull Integrity: 16 (4/4/4/6) Armor: 4 Main Drive Thrust: 5 (19.8 TW) Drive Auto-Detection Range: 5.928 AU ∆V (Combat): 50.300 km/sec ∆V (Cruise): 1006.010 km/sec Thrust Points: 100 (934 tons propellant) Propellant Tanks: 4 Thrust Points per Tank: 25 FTL: Yes (Short Jump – 3.3 parsec range) Auxiliary Systems: 1x Enhanced Sensors; Level-2 Hull Stealthing; 0.6 G Spin Habitat for 40 Combat Systems: 2x Fire Control Weapons: 2x Point Defense Battery; 1x Burst Pulse Torpedo Launcher (FP/F/FS); 3x Class-2 Battery (All Arcs) |
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| The Ypres Class is a very stealthy frigate used by the European Union Space Defense Force (primarily by the French, though Spain and Italy each have one) as an “escort” for commercial convoys. In reality, such a heavily armed and stealthy design would be better suited for commerce raiding actions than ambushing pirates or an enemy’s prowling warships. The Ypres’ main armament is a burst pulse torpedo launcher, which can fire an effective spread of guided kinetic warheads even at long range, coupled with three secondary beam batteries. The Ypres has seen action against Manchurian and Carib League sponsored pirates, though in both cases it was a matter of the EUSDF hunting down their bases and destroying them rather than protecting a convoy under attack. In both cases the clever EUSDF captains made their transfer orbit burns from the jump point with the system’s primary obscuring the bright drive plume of the engines, allowing them to drift quietly into range (though this required the frigates to wait seven weeks for contact.) It is wildly rumored that as many as three Ypres’ frigates have been infiltrated into Sagittarius via chartered ULCCs by the French government, and without the knowledge of its other EU partner nations. The purpose of the frigate(s) was believed to be gathering intelligence on the disposition of the Sagittarius Arm developments, and whether Gavin Aurimas and the SDC would constitute an eventual threat to the EU and possible covert French expansion to Sagittarius. Since the collapse of the Stargate, any French frigates prowling the arm have been completely cut off from support, and indeed if they exist, their mission has been effectively rendered moot. | |
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