Colonial Arvak Class Battlestar

Name: Arvak
Craft: Colonial Military Arvak Class Battlestar
Type: Carrier / Battleship
Scale: Capital
Length: 1,120 x 420.6 x 180 meters
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 1,640; skeleton: 164/+10
Passengers: 3,200
Cargo Capacity: 12,250 metric tons
Consumables: 20 months
Jump Drive: x410
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 5
Hull: 6D+2
Armor: 2D+2
Sensors

• Passive: 40 / 1D+1
• Scan: 80 / 2D+1
• Search: 160 / 3D+2
• Focus: 4 / 5D

Weapons

• Medium Point-Defense System

Fire Arc: turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-3/9/18
Damage: 5D

• 12 Primary Assault Railguns

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 5 dual turrets
Crew: 2
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 3-27/81/162
Damage: 7D

• 12 Heavy Missile Systems

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 5 port, 5 starboard
Crew: 2
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 3-27/81/162
Damage: 8D

• 6 Nuclear Missile Systems

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 2 port, 2 starboard
Crew: 2
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 3-27/81/162
Damage: 10D

Complement:

• Viper MK VII Fighter: 60
• Raptor Class Multipurpose Ship: 25
• Assorted Craft: 12

Description: The eight Arvak Class Battlestars are contemporaries of the Aesir Valkyrie and Mercury Class designs, and like the Aesir’s, were an attempt to field a fully capable Battlestar on the smallest and cheapest hull possible. In that attempt, they failed, miserably. The design was too lightly built, and as a result each Arvak Class Battlestar had to be fitted with additional structural bracing and extra armor, which led to serious cost overruns, and in turn, political scandal. The Arvak class Battlestars are robust, capable, and flexible, but are not worth the price Colonial taxpayers wound up paying for them.

Quirks/Special Characteristics: One of the primary concerns surrounding this Battlestar design was the comparatively light construction of the hull, and as a result the class were fitted with additional armor-specifically, a cast armor shell that covered roughly two-thirds of the ship’s length. These innovative laminate armor shells comprised the largest cast structures every built by Colonial science, and each boosted the cost of the Battlestar by almost thirty percent, taking them well over budget. Needless to say, in an era of tight budgets and fiscal restraint, this experiment was not repeated.

Source:

• Battlestar Galactica Thin Blue Line Corebook (page 94)
• thedemonapostle