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Babylon 5 Ipsha War Globe

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Name: War Globe
Craft: Ipsha Barony War Globe
Type: Warship
Scale: Capital
Length: 185 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 30; Skeleton: 3/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D+1; Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D+1; Communications: 4D+1; Sensors: 4D+1
Passengers: 20
Cargo Capacity: 40 metric tons
Consumables: 3 months
Hyperdrive: x5
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 3D+2
Space: 15
Hull: 3D+2
Sensors

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

Weapons

  • 3 Twin-Linked Focuser Cannons
Fire Arc: 2 forward, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-18/45/90
Damage: 12D
  • 12 Energic Blasters
Fire Arc: 12 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-5/12/23
Damage: 6D

Miscellaneous:

  • Artificial Gravity: yes
  • Crew: 30
  • Officers: 5
  • Pilots: 5
  • Sensor Operators: 5
  • Crewmen: 15
  • Average Crew Experience Level: Ipsha Line
  • Stealth: 7 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
  • Hybrid Engine (Gravitic/Magnetic)
  • Saucer Drive

Complement:

  • Light Shuttle: 1

Description: Arguably the strangest looking warship ever produced by any race within the galaxy, the Ipsha War Globe is a metal ring of magnetic gyroscopics used to contain a powerful energic anomaly within it. All Ipsha technology is based on the magnetic containment of these swirling green masses of unstable energy, using them to fuel their machines, arm their weapons, and essentially drive their technology en masse. Having created a powerful atomic reaction inside of the magnetic/gravitic coil of their vessels, there is an unbelievable amount of energy at the ship’s disposal.

Fueling every system of the ‘globe’, the energic mass is an utter mystery to every other race. No Ipsha has ever allowed the secret to escape their lips, and no alien has the right body structure to survive in the alkaline waters of their vessels. How exactly the cephalopod-esque Ipsha came up with the science to harness what equates to a tiny sun in each of their ships will remain an enigma – no matter how many aliens wish they could duplicate it.

The War Globe is the most recognizable of their warships, having been outside of Barony space many times to aid their Gaim and Hyach allies. Their superior maneuverability and potent energic weaponry was especially useful in the latter days of the Shadow War, as at least one Ipsha War Globe was present at Coriana VI to help defend the system from the First Ones.

Source:

  • Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 137-138)
  • thedemonapostle
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