Colonial Arvak Class Battlestar

Name: Arvak
Craft: Colonial Arvak Class Battlestar
Type: battleship
Scale: capital
Length: 1,120 x 420.6 x 180 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 1,640
Passengers: 3,200
Cargo Capacity: 48,000 tons
Consumables: 24 months
Hyperdrive: x575,000
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 5
Hull: 6D+2
Armor: 2D+2
Sensors

Passive: 80/3D
Scan: 160/4D
Search: 240/5D
Focus: 8/6D

Weapons

Medium Point Defense System

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-10/20/40
Damage: 3D+1

12 Heavy Railguns

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 5 port, 5 starboard
Crew: 5
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 2-35/70/140
Damage: 4D+2

12 Heavy Missile Launchers

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 5 port, 5 starboard
Crew: 5
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 2-35/70/140
Damage: 5D+1

6 Nuclear Missile Launchers

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 2 port, 2 starboard
Crew: 5
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 2-300/600/1,200
Damage: 6D+2

Compliment: 60 vipers, 25 raptors, 12 other

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 (page 94)