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Babylon 5 Drakh Entire Light Cruiser

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Name: Light Cruiser
Craft: Drakh Entire Light Cruiser
Type: Light Cruiser
Scale: capital
Length: 1,350 meters (estimated)
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 95; Skeleton: 10/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D+2; Capital Ship Piloting: 5D; Capital Ship Shields: 5D; Communications: 5D; Sensors: 5D
Passengers: 1,000
Cargo Capacity: 2,000 metric tons
Consumables: 10 months
Maneuverability: 1D
Space: 6
Hull: 5D+1
Shields: 4D
Sensors

  • Passive: 24 / 0D+2
  • Scan: 48 / 1D+1
  • Search: 72 / 2D+1
  • Focus: 2 / 3D

Weapons

  • Medium Neutron Cannon
Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-15/38/75
Damage: 10D
  • 4 Pulse Cannons
Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-8/19/38
Damage: 7D+1

Miscellaneous:

  • Artificial Gravity: Yes
  • Crew: 96
  • Officers / Pilots: 4
  • Sensor Operators: 12
  • Crewmen: 80
  • Average Crew Experience Level: Drakh Line
  • Stealth: 9 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
  • Drakh Gravitic Energy Grid: 2D+1
  • Gravitic Engine

Ship Complement:

Description: Sa’dravash, ‘Lesser Instrument’
The Light Cruiser design was first created by the ifrit clan, during the long peregrination following the war of ten thousand years ago. Z’ha’dum had been attacked by a coalition of the other First Ones, the Vorlons and their allies, and the Drakh were driven away. The ifrit headed along the Rim and failed to find any solar systems suitable for harvesting. With their resources running low, the ifrit switched to building smaller versions of the common Battle Cruiser. The main gun was reduced in power and the hull was commensurately sized down.

The other clans went through a phase of building their own Light Cruisers as escort ships for the Clanfleets but the development of the faster and more efficient Raider series means that the Light Cruiser has been out-evolved. The Drakh still have hundreds of such ships but they are unlikely to build more in future, preferring to focus on the Battle Cruisers and Raiders. As a result, the Light Cruisers are given crew that have fallen out of favour with the Entire, or are used on less important missions like escorting mining carriers or point defence for the Clanfleets.

Perhaps the most telling part of the Light Cruiser’s fall from grace is that it is no longer required to carry a Priest.

Source:

  • Babylon 5: The Drakh (page 62)
  • thedemonapostle
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