Battle Cruiser

Battle Cruisers are the lords of the space navy. These heavy hitters are optimized for long range engagement and long range defense combining a variety of missiles and drones with excellent point-defense and electronic warfare capabilities.

Specifications

Base Abbreviation: BC

Tonnage Range: 90-100,000 tons

Common Maximum Acceleration: 3-5 G

Common Endurance: 1,000-1,250 G-hours, F11 sufficient for 2,000 FPH

Common Power: Two dual-use toroidal fusion plants/torches (25 terawatts each)

Common Shields: 1 500/6 gigawatt multiphase generators mounted forward, 1-2 500/6 multiphase generators amidships, 1 500/6 multiphase generators aft

Common Armor: Very Good (multiple 200-megawatt hits or a single 1-gigawatt, resistant to HE warheads, barely useful against nuclear warheads)

Common Armaments:

• Antimissile lasers (20-30, 100-200 megawatt)

• Lasers (5-20, 5-gigawatt)

• Missile launchers (40-50, broadside-mounted, magazine-fed)

• Sometimes a spinal laser (1, 500-gigawatt, spinal-mount) or particle accelerator (1, 1-terawatt, spinal-mount)