Interstellar Alliance Tara'Lin Class Battlecruiser
Name: Tara'Lin
Craft: Interstellar Alliance Tara'Lin Class Command Battlecruiser
Type: battlecruiser
Scale: capital
Length: 1,600 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 346; Skeleton: 35/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 6D+1; Capital Ship Gunnery: 5D; Capital Ship Piloting: 6D+1; Communications: 6D+1; Sensors: 6D+1
Passengers: 4,000
Cargo Capacity: 8,000 metric tons
Consumables: 40 months
Hyperdrive: x7
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 14
Hull: 8D+2
Sensors
- Passive: 32 / 1D
- Scan: 64 / 2D
- Search: 96 / 3D
- Focus: 3 / 4D
Weapons
- 5 Neutron Laser Cannons
- Fire Arc: 2 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 4D+2
Space Range: 1-15/35/75
Damage: 10D
- 20 Fusion Cannons
- Fire Arc: 6 forward, 4 port, 4 starboard, 6 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 4D+2
Space Range: 1-3/8/15
Damage: 4D
- 2 Electro-Pulse Guns
- Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 4D+2
Space Range: 1/3/6
Damage: Ionizes 1D worth of control systems. This effect is 2D worth on starfighter or lesser scale vessels.
- Minbari Jamming Suite
- Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Effect: Enemy Fire Control and Sensors -4D+1
Miscellaneous:
- Artificial Gravity: Yes
- Crew: 346
- Officers: 10
- Pilots: 18
- Sensor Operators: 18
- Crewmen: 300
- Average Crew Experience Level: Anla’shok Veteran
- Stealth: 27 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
- Gravitic Engine
- Jump Point Generator
- Minbari Flight Computer
- Minbari Jamming Suite
Ship Complement:
Description: As of 2262, there were only two of these prized Sharlin variants in service to the Anla’shok. By all accounts, they would have created more but were stymied by the rise of the Minbari Civil War and then the mounting Centauri and Drakh problems that consumed so much of the Rangers’ resources. These floating training camps and resource facilities stayed most of the time traveling in hyperspace from safe point to safe point to keep them out of harm’s way, but occasionally would emerge from their travels to unleash the might of the Anla’shok upon their foes.
Each Tara’Lin is considered to be a fully operational training center and asset stockpile with dozens of vehicles and supplies to deploy with the hundreds of Rangers on board when necessary. As with any Sharlin they are thoroughly protected from outside threats with an array of fusion cannons and potent neutron weaponry. Between the lethal weaponry and the scores of well-trained Rangers, each Tara’Lin is a fleet unto itself – but a resource far too rare and important to simply waste in common engagements or equal battles.
Source:
- Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 76)
- thedemonapostle