Centauri Republic Sulust Class Destroyer

Name: Sulust
Craft: Centauri Republic Sulust Class Escort Destroyer
Type: destroyer
Scale: capital
Length: 448.75 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 94
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D+2; Capital Ship Pilot: 4D+2; Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D; Communications: 4D+2; Sensors: 4D+2; Starship Gunnery: 3D; Planetary Systems: 4D+2; Tactics: 4D+2; Command: 4D+2
Passengers: 750
Cargo Capacity: 750 metric tons
Consumables: 15 months
Hyperdrive: x2
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 10
Space: 0D+2
Hull: 4D+2
Sensors

Passive: 50/1D+2
Scan: 100/2D+2
Search: 150/3D+2
Focus: 5/4D+2

Craft Carried: 2 Shuttles
Weapons

4 Battle Lasers

Fire Arc: fore
Crew: 2
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-15/35/75
Damage: 10D

8 Particle Arrays

Fire Arc: 4 fore, 2 port, 2 starboard
Crew: 2
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-8/15/25
Damage: 5D

2 MK I Interceptors

Fire Arc: 2 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1/3/7
Damage:

Intercept: 3D+1
Offense: 1D

Description: Due to the efficiency of the battle laser and the number of ships that carry at least a few of the potent weapon, a number of races have learned to screen their more valuable command ships with smaller escorts when battling the Centauri. This shields the fleet vessels from the powerful matter guns and battle lasers of the Republic fleet through valiant sacrifice. The Centauri Admiralty are not fools however and they soon designed the perfect answer to this ‘cowards’ tactic’. Rather than waste time, energy and ammunition ripping these smaller craft apart with capital class weaponry, newly designed Sulust escort destroyers were called in to shatter these defensive lines and make a gap through which the Centauri’s bigger guns can deal with priority targets. This does mean that a number of Sulusts always end up getting caught between two volleying fleets, but they can normally sustain enough damage to at least escape the explosions caused by their own fleet’s firepower!

Source: Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 55-56); thedemonapostle