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Gepard Fast System Defense Boat
design by Oliver Albrecht
This vessel was constructed in the early 970's as part of a Imperial Navy contest for a
fast and very offensive little rider on TL-14 basis. Delta Rhombus Yards' contribution was
the Gephard class rider. In the final jury decision it made the 8th place in the ranking
and Delta Rhombus settled into a financial crisis. Years later however many smaller systems
showed interest in the ship and in the following years the Gephard found its way into many
system defense squadrons. Around 1000ti over 300 were (mostly under license) constructed
throughout the imperium. Since then it has gained a reputation as a formidable craft
against more lightly armed opponents, such as pirate vesseles typically are.
The IMPERIAL SPACETECHNOLOGY OBSERVER has written the following about the Gephard:
"...a surprisingly agile craft. And once the engineer kicks the throttle open, few things
are more impressive than the 8 Geeeees that really hurt with only 5 of them compensated...
Usual tactics is the ship lies silent in the void, waiting for its prey. Once its formidable
passive sensor array has detected the foe, just a little burn, and the Gephard closes in with
tremendous speed... The particle accelerator is a smashing hazard to all enemies within 2.3
light seconds. It maintains its punch up to 4 lsecs and does enough damage to render small
targets completely inoperable with 2 or 3 hits... All in all nothing you would like
to be against!"
Gepard Fast SDB
General Data
| Displacement: 1000 tons |
Hull Armor: 112 |
| Length: 83 meters |
Volume: 14,000 m3 |
| Price: 683.106 MCr |
Target Size:M |
| Configuration: Slab AF |
Tech Level: 14 |
| Mass (Loaded/Unloaded):13,391/12,731 |
Engineering Data
- Power Plant: 4,500 MW Fusion Power Plant (150 MW/hit), 1 year duration
- Jump Performance: 0
- Jump Fuel: 0 m3
- G-Rating: 8 Gs (500 MW/G), Contra-Grav (100 MW)
- G-Turns: 50, 125 kl fuel each
- Maint: 558
Electronics
- Computer: 3xTL14 Mod Std Computers (0.5 MW ea.)
- Commo: 3x1000 AU Maser (*; 0.6 MW ea.), 3x1000 AU Laser (*; 0.3 MW ea.)
- Avionics: TL 10+ Avionics
- Sensors: Passive EMS 210,000km folding array (7 hexes; 0.25 MW)
Passive EMS 120,000km fixed array ( 4 hexes; 0.1 MW)
Active EMS 480,000km (16 hexes; 25 MW)
- ECM/ECCM: EMM Package (14 MW)
- Controls: Bridge with 17 Bridge Workstations plus 40 Normal Workstations
Armament
- Offensive 2x300Mj Laser Barbette (Loc: 10,11; Arcs: All; 41.5 MW ea.; -1 DiffMod; 1 Crew ea.)
2xMissle Barbette (Loc: 8,9; 5 Rdy Msl ea.; 0.15 MW ea.; 1 Crew ea.)
1280 Mj Spinal PAW (Loc: All; Arcs: 1; 177.778 MW; -1 DiffMod; 2 Crew)
- Defensive: 2xSandcaster Turret (Loc:10,11; Arcs: All; 50 Cann ea.; 1MW ea.; 1 Crew ea.)
- Master Fire Directors: 2xTL14 MFD 300,000km (5 DiffMods; Beam/Msl 10 hexes; 0.12 MW ea.; 1 Crew ea.)
| Name | Short | Medium | Long | Extreme |
| 300 Mj Laser Barbette | 10:1/14-43 | 20:1/14-43 | 40:1/8-26 | 80:1/4-13 |
| 1280 Mj PAW | 10:179 | 20:179 | 40:179 | 80:179 |
Accommodations
- Life Support: Extended (2.8 MW)
- Grav Compensation: 5 G (70 MW)
- Crew: 80 (38xEngineering, 3xElectronics, 1xManeuver, 10xGunnery, 6xMaintenance,
10xTroops, 11xCommand, 1xSteward)
- Crew Accommodations: 23xBunk (Crew; 3 in 24 hours),
5xSmallStateroom (Command, double-occupancy, 0.0005 MW ea.),
1xSmallStateroom (Captain, single-occupancy, 0.0005 MW)
- Passenger Accomadation: None
- Other Facilities: None
- Cargo: 240 m3 1 Large Cargo Hatch
- Small Craft and Launch Facilities: None
- Air Locks: 10
Notes
6,000 m3 of LHYD fuel. Fuel Scoops need 30 min to refuel.
No fuel purification machinery.
Damage Tables
D20 Surface Hits Internal Explosions Systems
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1 Ant 1-3:PA, 4-20:Elec PP-30H SandT-1H
2,3 Ant 1-3:PA, 4-7:Elec, 8-20:Qtrs MD-4H SSR-(2h)
4,5 1-8:Ant,9:AL,10:CH 1-3:PA, 4-20:Hold CG-2H PA-45H
6,7 1-3:PA, 4-20:Hold AG-3H AEMS-(2h)
8,9 0-5:EMMRad 1-3:PA, 4-5:MB, 6-20:Hold LS-23H FoldPEMSAnt-1H
10,11 1-3:PA, 4-5:LB, 6:SandT, 7-20:Hold ELS-11 EMMRad-(14h)
12-16 1-3:PA, 4-20:Hold LB-1H
17,18 1-3:PA, 4-16:Hold, 17-20:Eng MB-1H
18-20 1-3:PA, 4-20:Eng All others - (1h)
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