Centauri Republic Kutai Class Gunship

Name: Kutai
Craft: Centauri Republic Kutai Class Gunship
Type: gunship
Scale: capital
Length: 200 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 21; Skeleton: 4/+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: 40
Cargo Capacity: 80 metric tons
Consumables: 3 months
Maneuverability: 2D+2
Space: 9
Hull: 3D
Sensors

• Passive: 28 / 0D+2
• Scan: 56 / 1D+2
• Search: 84 / 2D+2
• Focus: 3 / 3D+1

Weapons (See Notes)

• 6 Matter Cannons

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-8/20/41
Damage: 5D+1

• 3 Particle Arrays

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage: 5D+1

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: Yes
• Crew: 21

• Officers: 2
• Pilots: 3
• Sensor Operators: 2
• Crewmen: 14

• Average Crew Experience Level: Centauri Line
• Stealth: 11 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
• Gravitic Engine

Ship Complement:

• Shuttle: 2

Notes:

• Weapons: Due to power and ammunition loading constraints, only three of these weapons may fire per turn.

Description: The Kutai gunship is a design based on a long-captured League chassis that retains its odd shape but has been completely rebuilt a dozen times using Centauri materials, equipment and upgrades. Whichever minor League race once held it would barely recognize the monstrous gun-laden beast it has become. Appropriately named ‘gunship’, the Kutai is a deadly vessel with more than enough weapon systems to make a difference in most assaults, but tends to be better suited to lend support to larger ships more often than engage targets on its own.

Being one of the Centauri’s earliest captured hulls, the Kutai is omnipresent across Republic space. Fast and maneuverable for a vessel packing as many powerful matter cannons as it does, it makes for an excellent crew-training platform. Easy, straightforward and easily replaceable – rookie crews are a mirror match for the Kutai. Surprisingly, there has been little done to change the Kutai in 20 years; the Admiralty believes they have their ‘winner’ right here.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 50)
• thedemonapostle