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Babylon 5 Defender Close Escort

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Name: Defender
Craft: Belt Alliance Defender Close Escort
Type: Close Escort
Scale: Capital
Length: 145 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 15; Skeleton: 2/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D+2; Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D+2; Communications: 4D+2; Sensors: 4D+2; Starship Gunnery: 3D
Passengers: 30
Cargo Capacity: 60 metric tons
Consumables: 2 months
Maneuverability: 3D+1
Space: 14
Hull: 3D
Sensors

  • Passive: 16 / 0D+1
  • Scan: 32 / 1D
  • Search: 48 / 1D+1
  • Focus: 2 / 2D

Weapons

  • 5 Light Pulse Cannons
Fire Arc: 2 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 0D+2
Space Range: 1/3/6
Damage: 4D+2
  • 2 Mk I Interceptors
Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+2
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage:
  • Offensive: 0D+2
  • Intercept: 2D

Miscellaneous:

  • Artificial Gravity: no
  • Crew: 15
  • Officers: 2
  • Pilots: 3
  • Sensor Operators: 2
  • Crewmen: 8
  • Average Crew Experience Level: Belt Alliance Line
  • Stealth: 7 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
  • Fusion Engine

Complement:

  • Light Shuttle: 1

Description: An old military model once used heavily by the Belt Alliance, the Defender was the primary deterrent against raiders and the like in its heyday. Occasionally used by civilians and personal crews as a good trade runner and escort ship, the Defender is one of the fastest ships that ever sprang from the Belt Alliance’s shipyards. Some say it gives a few Earth Alliance ships a run for the fastest in the entire galactic sector, but such a claim would be expensive and time consuming to actually test to any capacity.

Older models of the Defender carried simple particle beams that did fine against smaller ships and boarding shuttles, but newer – and now standard – models replaced the direct fire weaponry with an equal number of fast-firing pulse cannons. Although they pack less of a punch, the Defender has always been primarily concerned with fighters and breaching pods, making the hail of fire they are capable of producing far more efficient for its chosen role.

Source:

  • Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 134)
  • thedemonapostle
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