A cruiser is equally nasty as a supernova or a nova when it comes to destructive power. That fact that it can rain kinetic bombardments on planets make a ship to respect. The big problem with nasty weapons is that once you have them you can\u2019t get rid of them because someone else might use them on you. Self-defense is a seductive excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cruiser \u2013 named for planets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1200 feet long, 100 feet high, 150 feet wide, 7 decks<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 hydroponics\/life support bays<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 power rooms<\/p>\n\n\n\n Main bridge about one-quarter from nose in center of ship with dedicated auxiliary bridge two thirds to rear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Preon drive only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Carries 2 shuttles externally which can carry supplies or personnel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 40 Anti-missile pods <\/p>\n\n\n\n 10 missile bays<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6 magazines 50 missiles each<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 armories<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 two-man gun pods<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 three-man laser mounts<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kinetic Bombardment Bay \u2013 5 graviton drive weapons <\/p>\n\n\n\n Archeon B communications<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nose air lock, shuttle airlocks, with double spiral of emergency airlocks from nose to two thirds own ship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Carries platoon of marines with heavy armor for one squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Max speed 1.1 parsec per hour within core<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can accelerate to over 120 parsec\/day outside galactic arms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A cruiser is equally nasty as a supernova or a nova when it comes to destructive power. That fact that it can rain kinetic bombardments on planets make a ship to respect. The big problem with nasty weapons is that once you have them you can\u2019t get rid of them because someone else might use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,9],"tags":[26,13,16],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appendix","category-galactifacts","category-ships","tag-core-empire","tag-sci-fi","tag-space-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crystalroads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/irtWS6CXgxeX4L55qaju-2-dw4cy.jpg?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crystalroads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}