Earth Alliance Ministry Class Frigate

Name: Ministry
Craft: Earth Alliance Ministry-class Escort Frigate
Type: Escort Frigate
Scale: capital
Length: 327.5 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 62; Skeleton: 7/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 5D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 5D+1
Passengers: 100
Cargo Capacity: 454 metric tons
Consumables: 7 weeks
Hyperdrive: x17
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 3
Hull: 3D+1
Sensors

• Passive: 16 / 0D+1
• Scan: 32 / 1D
• Search: 64 / 1D+1
• Focus: 2 / 2D

Weapons

• 4 Light Pulse Cannons

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-2/3/6
Damage: 2D+1

• Standard Missile System

Fire Arc: turret
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-8/17/33
Damage: 5D

• 4 Mark II Interceptors

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-3/6/11
Damage:

• Offensive: 0D+2
• Intercept: 3D

• Grapple

Fire Arc: forward/down/aft
Crew:1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Range: 50 meters
Strength: 3D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: No
• Crew: 62

• Officers: 2
• Pilots: 6
• Sensor Operators: 11
• Crewmen: 43

• Average Crew Experience Level: EarthForce Line
• Stealth: 4 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
• Fusion Engines
• Jump Point Generator

Ship Complement:

• Light Shuttle: 2
• SA-23E Aurora Starfury Class Heavy Fighter: 6

Description: When the Earth Alliance needed to make sure a diplomatic or trade craft reached its destination unmolested, but did not want to dedicate any traditional fleet assets to its protection, they sent a Ministry-class Escort. Designed originally to be a trade route manager, the Ministry has been a great success in EA mercantile circuits. Relatively well armed for its role and equipped with a compliment of anti-raider heavy fighters, it is a good deterrent for most that might harass an important shipment or transport.

Having sold dozens of the vessels to outside sources in order to make sure that the ship’s signature would not automatically trigger bandits to come calling, the Ministry has seen several revisions outside of the Earth Alliance shops. Unlike so many of their own vessels, Earth Force has really only ever updated the Ministry’s weapon payload once to incorporate newer pulse cannons and missile systems when the old standby particle beams became out of date. Its new standard armament is more than enough to handle small raider groups and many a Cotton Tender has been saved an early grave by it.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 13)
• thedemonapostle