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Model: HAI-14 Tarasque
Class: Battlecruiser

Height: 197 feet (58.6 m)
Length: 1,005 feet (306 m)
Width: 729 feet (222 m)

Sublight Speed: 22% speed of light
Maximum FTL Speed: 400C (one light year per 22 hours)
Range: 98 light years

Crew: 48 Officers, 420 enlisted, 30 marines or security personnel, 18 flight officers
Troops or Passengers: 200 max (100 comfortably)

Armaments:
1x Gauss Cannon (firing 1,000 lbs. tungsten carbide rounds)
6 x Forward Anti-ship missile launchers
2 x Rear Anti-ship missile launchers
2 x 60 TeV Particle Beam Cannons
4 x Twin-barrel, 10 Petawatt/milisecond solid state laser turrets (5 PT per barrel)
8 x Twin-barrel 60mm Extended Range Ion Defense Turrets

Armor: 2 cm multiwalled carbon nanotube mesh over 1-foot thick alumina and titanian carbide chobham armor.

Auxillary craft: 6 light or medium fighters (varies with purchaser) or 4 heavy strike fighters.
4 short-range shuttles

Avionics: Digital Optical Telescopes, Long-range Mass Detectors, Long-Range Electromagnetic Field Detectors, LADAR, Radar and Infrared Field Surveyors

(updated to correct two weapon mislabelings)
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~JigokuAisatsu Dec 4, 2012
So it can generate petawatts of energy but it needs wings and carries a gauss cannon? I don't think something that can generate that much power needs to worry about lift forces, that's like a fusion bomb powered rocket. The gauss gun would be ridiculously obsolete. It uses Carbon nanotube inter-meshed armor AND Chobham?? Why? Chobham and Carbides is much less hard than a diamondoid, they are also less resistant to heat.
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*ILJackson Dec 5, 2012
Oh and the particle beam cannon energy output isn't a direct result of the reactor output. They basically cause a fusion explosion, contain it, and then channel it through electrostatic lenses to create the particle beam blasts, so that energy is a burst of power from that reaction, which isn't quite suitable for a constant output reactor (otherwise they'd be doing that for a power source).
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*ILJackson Dec 5, 2012
The wings are actually for waste heat collection for the most part, and the gauss cannon has tiny anti-matter core in a magnetic bottle. It pierces the armor of the enemy ship and the bottle fails, turning it into hundreds of pounds of depleted uranium shrapnel that ricochets inside the enemy ship. Better than an energy weapon for causing damage. Also, there are a couple species with energy weapon defense technology. The compound armor is also for max flexibility against different types of weaponry that behaves differently. People quickly develop armor penetrating weaponry historically, and armor piercing technology generally outpaces armor technology itself. You have to assume that military truth remains constant, so having the chobam is kind of like having a couple extra inches of steel plating. It's also a kinetic weapon defense. I'm not too brushed up on how well carbon nanotube dissipates kinetic energy. Yes, it's unlikely to be pierced, but will the energy transfer through to the structure underneath anyway? Not sure what the data is on that.
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*ILJackson Dec 5, 2012
oops, tungsten carbide, not depleted uranium. Thinking of another ship.
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~imachrismoose Oct 18, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Tarasque? WE'RE ALL FUCKED. But seriously, did you really name that ship after a monster from D&D?
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*ILJackson Oct 18, 2012
oh, and the D&D creature has two Rs in its name. Tarrasque.
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*ILJackson Oct 18, 2012
No. D&D stole the name from actual medieval legend. You know the story of Beauty and the Beast? The Beast was the Tarasque. The Beauty was Saint Martha. There's an entire region of France named after the thing. [link]
Funny how everyone knows the words Beauty and the Beast and what it means, yet nobody remembers the beast itself...
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~xxVectorZeroxx Oct 5, 2011
detailed ship design stats? hell yeah.
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~THE-WHITE-TIGER Oct 5, 2011
I LIKE IT!!!
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Mood: Wow! ~soler7 Dec 27, 2010
Absolute bad ass !!
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