Serpent Class System Patrol Boat

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Cutlass class System Patrol Boat

design by Lewis Roberts

The Cutlass class was built using lessons learned in the designing the Hobnail class SDB. Its designers thought it was a bit to small to be called a System Defense Boat, so the type designation System Patrol Boat was created. The Cutlass class has the same performance as the Hobnail class, but without the planetary bombardment facilities, the Configuarable Pod, and a smaller cargo bay. This allows the ship to be built on a smaller hull and for considerably less money.

The Cutlass class is designed purely for the export market. The salespeople pitch the ship as a small highly armed ship capable of patrolling a system. It won't take out a Vampire Capital ship, but is more than capable of fighting off a pirate, smuggler or rebel ship.

While the ship is streamlined, it doesn't not normally enter planetary atmospheres. Its fusion engines would contaminate the biosphere of any planet. It normally only enters the atmosphere of gas giants. Since the ship can not land on the planet's surface to pick up crew and supplies, these are normally supplied by surface-to-orbit shuttles. If the planet does not have the capacity to build such vehicles, the Oriflamme have several models that clients can purchase.

Cutlass class System Defense Boat

General Data

Displacement: 200 tons	Hull Armor: 275
Length: 17.49 meters	Volume: 2,800 m³
Price: 420.58 MCr	Target Size: S
Configuration:Streamlined Spehre	Tech Level: 9
Mass (Loaded/Unloaded): 5,918.8 / 5,856.4

Engineering Data

Power Plant: 200 MW Fusion Power Plant, 1 year duration (30.0 m³ fuel)

Jump Performance: None

G-Rating: 1G Fusion Rocket (-117.6 MW/G), Auxiliary Standard CG (60 MW) #NUM!

Maint: 149

Electronics

Computer: 2xTL-9 Fibre-optic computer (0.5 MW)

Commo: Maser (1 hex; 0.15 MW), Radio (1 hex; 1 MW)

Avionics: Imaging radar, Satellite positioning, 130 km/h NOE

Sensors: Radar (2 hex; 150 MW), HRT Folding array (3 hex; 0.25 MW),

ECM/ECCM: None

Controls: Bridge with 8 bridge workstations, 3 normal workstations

Armament

Offensive:
3xMissile Barbette (0.15 MW; No crew)

Defensive: 3xSand Turret (1 MW; 1 crew)

Master Fire Directors: 3xTL-9 (2 Diff Mods; 2 hex; Msl 10 hex; 15.36 MW; 1 crew)

Accommodations

Life Support: Extended (0.09 MW), Gravitic Compensators (0 MW)

Grav Compensation: 0 G.

Crew: 16 (1xManeuver, 2xElectronics, 3xEngineer, 6xGunnery, 2xMaintenance, 2xCommand)

Crew Accommodations: 1 Small Stateroom (0.5 kW) for the captain. The crew and XO hotbunks in 5 bunks. These are actually the standard hammock of the Oriflamme navy. Each crew member gets his own private hammock.

Cargo: 238 m3 (17 tons), 1 Large Hatches, 42 missiles in magazine

Small Craft and Launch Facilities: None

Air Locks: 2

Notes

Total Fuel Tankage: 41.4 m3 (3.0 tons).
Fuel scoops (10% of ship surface), fills tanks in 0.04 hours.
Fuel purification machinery (1.8MW), 1.24 hours to refine 41.4 m3.
Crew requirements are calculated by using 'Original FFS' crew model. 53.5 MW power surplus with the fusion rockets powered, without them on, there is a power deficiet and careful power managment is neccesary. Usually this is made up by turning off unneccesary equipment.