Terran Confederation "Hades" Quick Strike Cruiser

Name: Hades Class
Craft: Terran Confederation Hades Class Quick Strike Cruiser
Type: light battle cruiser
Scale: capital
Length: 777 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 150
Skeleton Crew: 23/+10
Passengers: 36 & 360 prisoners
Cargo Capacity: 12,800 metric tons
Consumables: 4 years
Cost: 581,895,467 credits
Jump Drive: x1
Back-up Drive: x10
Secondary Back-up Drive: x100
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 0D+1
Space: 4
Atmosphere: 280; 800 kmh
Hull: 6D+1
Shields: 3D+1
Sensors

• Passive: 100/1D
• Scan: 250/4D
• Search: 500/7D
• Focus: 10/10D

Weapons

• 8 Offensive Lasers

Fire Arc: 4 dual turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1-8/15/30
Atmosphere Range: 100-800/1,500/3,000m
Rate of fire: 7
Damage: 4D

• 1 Enhanced Plasma Cannon

Fire Arc: 1 partial turret
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1-15/30/60
Atmosphere Range: 100-1,500/3,000/6,000m
Rate of fire: 1/2
Damage: 4D

• 20 Heavy Long Range Tachyon Guns

Fire Arc: 10 dual turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1-10/20/40
Atmosphere Range: 100-1,000/2,000/4,000m
Rate of fire: 3
Damage: 4D+2

• 2 Enhanced Long Range Image Recognition (ELRIR) Missile Launchers

Fire Arc: 1 port, 1 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1-90/180/550
Atmosphere Range: 100-9,000/18,000/55,000m
Ammo: 100 per launcher
Rate of fire: 1
Damage: 18D+1; 1D+2 vs capital scale

• 6 Lance Heavy Torpedo Launcher Bays

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 5
Scale: death star
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1-20/40/140
Atmosphere Range: 2-40/80/280
Ammo: 50 per launcher
Rate of fire: 6
Damage: 2D+2

• 1 Tractor Beam

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 5
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1-6/12/24
Atmosphere Range: 2-12/24/48km
Strength: 8D

• Electronic Counter Measure Module

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Space Range: 1-13/25/50
Atmosphere Range: 1-25/50/100km
Effects: Enemy Sensors and Fire Control -3D

Gear:

• Matter/Anti-Matter Reactor
• Akwende Drive: Primary FTL Drive.
• Morvan Drive: Secondary FTL Drive.
• D-Drive: Tertiary FTL Drive.
• External Docking Port: 2
• 3 Hospital Modules: Fully stocked hospital with 48 beds. 144 beds total.
• Emergency Stasis Unit: Can place the entire crew in stasis for an indefinite amoutr of time provided it has power.
• Ramscoop
• Repair Bay Module: Ship may repair structures and ships up to its own size.
• Phase Shields: While active the ship becomes immune to all forms of damage provided it is not hit by anything that can bypass its shields (such as Anti-Matter Guns or torpedoes).
• Back-up Sensor Array: 3
• Back-up Communications Array: 3
• Escape Pods: 32
• Hanger Bay: 700,000 cubic meters of flight deck.
• Carrier Systems: Ship can launch and receive 3 ships every 6 rounds.

Ship Complement

• F-106A Piranha Scout Fighters: 6
• F/A-105A Tigershark Medium Multi-Purpose Fighter: 6
• F-110 Wasp Interceptor/Anti-Bombers: 6
• F-109 Vampire Class-A Space Superiority Fighters: 6
• TB-80 Devastator Class-A Torpedo Bombers: 6
• SR-51 Seahawk Space Early Warning/Space Warning and Control System Craft: 6
• SAR-23 Condor SAR/Refueling Shuttles: 4
• Hercules Marine Shuttles: 2

Description: The Hades-class Quick-strike Cruiser is a cruiser-class capital ship that served under the Terran Confederation fleet in the Wing Commander universe. The first appearances of these cruisers were in the computer game Wing Commander: Prophecy.

In the Wing Commander Universe, the Confederation introduced the new Hades-class Quick-strike Cruiser in 2681 and was first seen in the Secret Ops expansion for the computer game Wing Commander: Prophecy. The TCS Cerberus was the first Hades-class cruiser introduced. In Secret Ops, Lance Casey and several of his fellow pilots from the TCS Midway are transferred to the TCS Cerberus to aid the cruiser in several assignments that involved new Nephilim threats. The TCS Cerberus was instrumental in the elimination of the Nephilim threat in the Proxima system.

The Hades-class Quick-strike Cruiser was a big improvement over the older Confederation Cruisers. Although not as large and heavily armed as the Plunkett-class Heavy Artillery Cruiser, these cruisers performed their tasks extremely well, which were performing quick-strikes for almost any kind of assignments. These cruisers were equipped ten dual Tachyon cannon turrets, four laser turrets, and a single Mark IV Heavy Plasma Cannon, one of Confed's newest weapons. Unlike older Confederation capital ships, the Hades Quick-strike cruisers were equipped with missile payloads that included four Image Recognition missiles and six standard capital ship torpedoes. A Hades-class cruiser can also house thirty starfighters, four transport shuttles, and two Marine boarding crafts. It is uncertain if these quick-strike cruisers were mass-produced for the Confederation fleet like the Plunkett-class Heavy Artillery Cruisers and Murphy-class Destroyers.

Source: thedemonapostle; The Wing Commander Role Playing Game (page 410-411)