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Babylon 5 Mediator Escort Carrier

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Name: Mediator
Craft: Belt Alliance Mediator Escort Carrier
Type: Escort Carrier
Scale: Capital
Length: 800 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 73; Skeleton: 7/+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: 500 & 250 Troops
Cargo Capacity: 1,000 metric tons
Consumables: 35 months
Maneuverability: 1D+2
Space: 3
Hull: 5D
Sensors

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

Weapons

  • 2 Medium Blast Cannons
Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+1
Space Range: 1-8/19/38
Damage: 10D
  • 4 Particle Beams
Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+1
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+1
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage:
  • Offensive: 0D+2
  • Intercept: 2D

Miscellaneous:

  • Artificial Gravity: no
  • Crew: 73
  • Officers: 3
  • Pilots: 36
  • Sensor Operators: 3
  • Crewmen: 31
  • Average Crew Experience Level: Belt Alliance Line
  • Stealth: 5 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
  • External Docking Ring (12 fighters)
  • Fusion Engine

Complement:

Description: The most common carrier in Belt Alliance combats, the Mediator was used as a delivery method of any form of auxiliary craft the BA could build. Using dangerous and somewhat susceptible external hangar accesses, the Mediator was always quick to launch its compliment of fighters and shuttles as soon as it could – if only to keep the ship itself from being targeted time and time again to destroy fighters. It was a weakness that was commonly exploited by Earth Alliance fleets, and often kept Mediators in the rear sections of a battle.

Armed adequately for a carrier, the Mediator was also fitted with assault shuttles from time to time. Using its gunnery potential to open a clear path to a target ship or colony, it could then drop several units of GROPOS troops with a moderate rate of survival to both the ship and the landing craft. Its greatest weak point (that EA pilots were quick to exploit) was its slow launch rate from internal bays once the externals were depleted, making it easy prey to fighters.

Source:

  • Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 142)
  • thedemonapostle
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