Earth Alliance Chronos Class Frigate

Name: Chronos
Craft: Earth Alliance Chronos Class Attack Frigate
Type: attack frigate
Scale: capital
Length: 800 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 120; Skeleton: 12/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 5D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 5D+1
Passengers: 500
Cargo Capacity: 454 metric tons
Consumables: 15 weeks
Hyperdrive: x14
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 6
Hull: 5D
Sensors

• Passive: 32 / 1D
• Scan: 64 / 2D
• Search: 128 / 3D
• Focus: 3 / 4D

Weapons

• 3 Twin-Linked Heavy Pulse Cannons

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-5/12/25
Rate of fire: 4
Damage: 5D+1

• 2 Heavy Pulse Cannons

Fire Arc: 1 port, 1 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-5/12/25
Rate of fire: 4
Damage: 4D+1

• 2 Particle Beams

Fire Arc: 1 port, 1 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-5/12/25
Rate of fire: 1
Damage: 4D

• 3 Railguns

Fire Arc: 3 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-15/35/75
Rate of fire: 1
Damage: 5D+1

• 4 Mark II Interceptors

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-5/12/25
Rate of fire: 1
Damage:

• Offensive: 0D+2
• Intercept: 3D+1

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: No
• Crew: 120

• Officers: 6
• Pilots: 14
• Sensor Operators: 20
• Crewmen: 80

• Average Crew Experience Level: EarthForce Line
• Stealth: 6 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
• Fusion engines
• Jump Point generator

Ship Complement:

• Light Shuttle: 2

Description: An attempt at revising and recreating the Olympus corvette, the Chronos was another of the late additions to the fleet after the advances Earth Force made due to their attachment to the Interstellar Alliance. It carries a very generous amount of advanced firepower to every arc, and few ships its size can maneuver quite like it. Since its release into the fleet as a standard vessel, the Chronos has filled the role of escort, flanking attacker and even patrolling cutter – hence its rather unimaginative title of ‘attack frigate’.

Large for a frigate, the Chronos was built on a much bigger frame to be able to house the copious number of weapons systems that the EA designers devised for the thick-hulled and rather agile warship. These ships were deployed only in small numbers at first in 2262, but by 2270 there were well over a hundred of them in the naval records.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 6-7)
• thedemonapostle