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Earth Alliance Olympus Class Corvette

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Olympus Corvette

Craft: Earth Alliance Olympus Corvette
Type: corvette
Scale: capital
Length: 444.25 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 103
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D; Capital Ship Pilot: 5D; Communications: 5D; Sensors: 5D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+1; Planetary Systems: 5D; Tactics: 5D; Command: 5D
Passengers: 40
Cargo Capacity: 12.5 metric tons
Consumables: 10 months
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 1D+1
Space: 8
Hull: 4D+1
Sensors

  • Passive: 30/1D
  • Scan: 60/2D
  • Search: 90/3D
  • Focus: 3/4D

Craft Carried: 2 Light Shuttles
Weapons

  • 6 Twin Linked Medium Pulse Cannons
Fire Arc: 2 fore, 2 port, 2 starboard
Crew: 2
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-8/15/25
Damage:
  • Single: 5D
  • Partial Burst: 5D+2 (Fire Control 2D)
  • Full Burst: 6D+1 (Fire Control 1D)
  • 2 Standard Missile Systems
Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 2
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 2-12/30/60
Damage: 8D+1
  • 4 Mark I Interceptors
Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1/3/7
Damage:
  • Intercept: 1D
  • Offense: 3D+1
  • Railgun
Fire Arc: turret
Crew: 2
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-12/24/36
Damage: 8D

Olympus Gunship

Craft: Earth Alliance Olympus Gunship
Type: gunship
Scale: capital
Length: 444.25 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 103
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D; Capital Ship Pilot: 5D; Communications: 5D; Sensors: 5D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+1; Planetary Systems: 5D; Tactics: 5D; Command: 5D
Passengers: 40
Cargo Capacity: 12.5 metric tons
Consumables: 10 months
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 0D+2
Space: 6
Hull: 3D+2
Sensors

  • Passive: 40/1D+1
  • Scan: 80/2D+1
  • Search: 120/3D+1
  • Focus: 4/4D+1

Craft Carried: 2 Light Shuttles
Weapons

  • 2 Medium Laser Cannons
Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-10/19/38
Damage: 6D+1
  • 6 Particle Beams
Fire Arc: 2 forward, 2 port, 2 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-8/15/25
Damage: 2D
  • 4 Mark I Interceptors
Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1/3/7
Damage:
  • Intercept: 1D
  • Offense: 3D+1

Description

The Olympus, first seen in early 2200 as a replacement for the smaller Laertes-class, served well for several decades until the Dilgar War, when logistical problems began to surface. The Alliance required an immense supply train into League territory, but keeping ammunition supplies available for both railguns and missile systems became a difficult challenge even with the Cotten Tenders and freighter support. It was an expensive, unwieldy and difficult ship to manage – but it was reliably so.

Olympus Corvettes were extremely uncomfortable vessels, not really suitable for long patrols or border defense due to unhappy crews and constant internal squabbles. In peacetime, they were generally treated as small monitors and left to guard bases or colonies just to give them somewhere to ‘stretch their legs’ when eventually necessary. In the aftermath of the Earth-Minbari War, many among EarthForce believed the Olympus was obsolete and needed to be replaced. It did not take long for the increased funding and shipbuilding influences to come up with a newer, less ammunition-hungry version which became much more popular amongst the navy.

Source

Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 16); thedemonapostle

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