Earth Alliance Sagittarius Class Cruiser

Name: Sagittarius
Craft: Earth Alliance Sagittarius Cruiser
Type: cruiser
Scale: capital
Length: 562.35 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 79; Skeleton: 9/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 5D; Communications: 5D; Sensors: 5D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+1
Passengers: 1,000
Cargo Capacity: 2,000 metric tons
Consumables: 10 months
Maneuverability: 1D+2
Space: 5
Hull: 4D+2
Sensors

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

Weapons

12 Standard Missile Systems

Fire Arc: 6 forward, 2 port, 2 starboard, 2 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+2
Space Range: 1-7/17/33
Damage: 5D

Particle Beam

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

4 Mark I Interceptors

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

Offensive: 0D+2
Intercept: 2D

Miscellaneous:

Artificial Gravity: No
Crew: 79

Officers: 3
Pilots: 8
Sensor Operators: 8
Crewmen: 60

Average Crew Experience Level: EarthForce Line
Stealth: 5 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
Fusion Engine

Ship Complement:

Light Shuttle: 2

Description: The Sagittarius hull was a specialized design unveiled to the fleet at the dawn of the 23rd Century. The aim of the ship was to operate as a test firing platform for newly developing missile technology. As experimentation with the idea progressed, larger and more stable hulls were produced, eventually mounting no less than eight missile racks on a lengthy cruiser hull. Needing room for ammunition stores and multiple points of fire to make up for the time-consuming process of reloading and re-aligning proper lines of fire made the vessel grow to almost twice what they originally had planned for.

After what were considered several failures, Earth Force began to take interest in the hull as a potential warship design with the first actual Sagittarius in 2225. The ship was not particularly popular, primarily because of its lack of flexibility and utter dedication to missile bombardment. Because of its specialized role, the Sagittarius was totally unsuitable for use in anything outside a fleet environment, so few other missions could be undertaken with them. Worse still, the Sagittarius had little in the way of on-board defenses, lacking even a jump drive to make its escape should things go badly. Most were decommissioned, only to be hastily recalled – and summarily destroyed – during the Earth-Minbari War. Few survived, and those that did are now part of other missile testing projects throughout Earth Alliance space.

Source:

Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 21-22)
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