Babylon 5 Protector Carrier

Name: Protector
Craft: Belt Alliance Protector Carrier
Type: Carrier
Scale: Capital
Length: 857 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 94; Skeleton: 9/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 3D+2; Capital Ship Gunnery: 4D+2; Capital Ship Piloting: 3D+2; Communications: 3D+2; Sensors: 3D+2; Starship Gunnery: 4D+2
Passengers: 1,250
Cargo Capacity: 1,134 metric tons
Consumables: 10 weeks
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 6
Hull: 5D+2
Sensors

• Passive: 20 / 0D+2
• Scan: 40 / 1D+1
• Search: 80 / 1D+2
• Focus: 2 / 2D+1

Weapons

• 2 Light Blast Cannons

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+2
Space Range: 1-5/9/19
Damage: 6D+2

• 4 Light Pulse Cannons

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+2
Space Range: 1-2/3/6
Damage: 4D+2

• 4 Mk I Interceptors

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard; 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage:

• Offensive: 0D+2
• Intercept: 2D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: 94

• Officers: 4
• Pilots: 48
• Sensor Operators: 4
• Crewmen: 38

• Average Crew Experience Level: Belt Alliance Line
• Stealth: 8 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Fusion Engine

Complement:

• Light Shuttles: 2
• Delta-V Fighters or Starfox Fighters: 36

Description: The last word in Belt Alliance carriers, the Protector was designed after seeing the usefulness of multi-bay internal hangars used by the Dilgar during their invasion. Tired of having so many fighters picked off from their external docking rings, this slightly larger carrier could hold bigger numbers of fighters behind armored hangar doors. When the time was right the same docking posts used on the external rings could be extended and launch flights of fighters in relative safety. It was this extendable post that later became the main launching method of the Earth Alliance Thunderbolt fighter.

The Protector was far more focused a carrier than the Mediator, who also served as an assault delivery system. This carrier was built specifically with dozens of League race fighters in mind, as the Belt Alliance had good trade agreements with many of them. The internal hangar posts were easily modified to accept such purchased fighters as Narn Goriths or Brakiri Falkosis; but were primarily used to ferry Delta-Vs or the BA’s own Starfoxes.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 144-145)
• thedemonapostle