Babylon 5 Harrier Medium Gunboat

Name: Harrier
Craft: Belt Alliance Harrier Medium Gunboat
Type: Medium Gunboat
Scale: Capital
Length: 650 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 22; 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: 1,000
Cargo Capacity: 2,000 metric tons
Consumables: 5 months
Maneuverability: 2D+2
Space: 12
Hull: 4D+1
Sensors

• Passive: 12 / 0D+1
• Scan: 24 / 0D+2
• Search: 36 / 1D
• Focus: 1 / 1D+1

Weapons

• Medium Blast Cannon

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-8/19/38
Damage: 10D

• 2 Light Blast Cannons

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1-4/9/19
Damage: 6D+2

• 2 Particle Beams

Fire Arc: 1 port, 1 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage: 3D

• 2 Mk I Interceptors

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage:

• Offensive: 0D+2
• Intercept: 2D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: 22

• Officers: 2
• Pilots: 3
• Sensor Operators: 3
• Crewmen: 14

• Average Crew Experience Level: Belt Alliance Line
• Stealth: 6 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Fusion Engine

Complement:

• Light Shuttle: 1

Description: Once considered to be the largest warship in the Belt Alliance, the Harrier is a formidable patroller and defense craft. Designed to work excellently alongside patrol cutters and other picket ships, it uses short-ranged modified versions of matter technology called ‘blast cannons’ that launch volleys of solid pellets. Thick hulled and resilient for an oversized line defender, it always performed well against raiders and lesser alien invaders.

Since the addition of the Vindicator and later Earth Alliance support the Harrier has fallen to the wayside as an actual fleet asset. Now they are relegated primarily to colonial support and the occasional private ‘military’ function.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 135)
• thedemonapostle