TNO Tiburon CPE-F
The Tiburon Command/Patrol/Escort Frigate
Craft: Tiburon Class Command/Patrol/Escort Frigate
Combat Abbreviation: CPEF
Mission Profile: Command, Patrol, & Escort
Designer/Manufacturer: Black Mantis Research and Development Division
Retail Price: Not available for sale. Produced exclusively for the New Order.
Consumables: 6 months
Cargo Capacity: 6000 metric tonnes
Length Over All: 278 meters
Sublight Speed (Cruising): 14 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Flank): 18 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Emergency Full): 23 MGLT
Hyperdrive Motivator (Main): x1
Hyperdrive Motivator (Backup): x4
Shield Integrity: 2750 SBD
Hull Integrity: 1380 RU
Weapons:
- 04 Quad Heavy Turbolaser Canons
- 06 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
- 18 Dual Heavy Blaster Cannons
- 01 Proton Torpedo Cluster
- 02 Mine Launchers
- 02 Shuttles (on external racks)
- Little
Additional Equipment:
- Phalanx Anti-missile network
- Reactive Shielding
- Multi Track Shielding
- EMPIRE Project Automation
- Tactical Sensor Suite
Explanations
EMPIRE Project Automation
Designed by Black Mantis as the next logical step of the EMPIRE Project, automation eliminates the need for many ship's crew by placing gunnery control in the "hands" of slave-rigged brains. These units offer superior reflexes to human gunners, and because EMPIRE Project cloning samples are among the best specimens in the Empire, and overall increase in efficiency.
Tactical Sensor Suite
A complex sensor system incorporating traditional sensors, electromagnetic locators, a miniaturized crystal gravity trap, and a variety of other detection systems pioneered by the Empire, the TSS is a powerful package giving the vessel the ability to render useless many devices used to conceal cargos popular with smugglers.
Phalanx Anti-Missile Point Defence Gatling Laser Network
The Phalanx, is made up of a network of small, turreted light blaster cannons. These weapons are able to pick out missiles and destroy them from long range. The Phalanx System reduces the percentage of successful short-range missile strikes to less than 20%, and long-range attacks to under 5%.
Reactive Shielding
Reactive shielding is a system designed to protect the Messiah from energy weapons. When the vessel’s shields are raised, a special battery bank is charged along with them. Then, when computers detect a substantial bombardment against any section of the vessel, the shield is immediately recharged with stored energy from this bank.
Multi Track Shielding
Multi Track Shielding uses a dedicated targeting computer imbedded in the shielding system to track approaching enemies and calculate approximate damage. The system automatically them distributes shields for maximum damage resistance. Combined with reactive shielding, this system gives the vessel an unprecedented edge in battle.
Proton Torpedo Clusters
A dedicated cluster of Proton Torpedo Launchers, each equipped with its own complete targetting array. Each of the clusters contains fifteen launchers, linked into three banks. When the cluster is fired, there is a second-long delay between each bank. The result is that the first wave of missiles can often create a small gap in the shields, allowing the second and third waves to penetrate and strike hull. The arrangement allows for maximum damage to be sustained from a single cluster firing.
Background Information
As the Empire continues to expand, the resources of the famed Imperial Fleet begin to stetch. While a number of vessels exist for the purposes of guarding convoys and patrolling the outersectors, no vessel has yet proved adapt at this task.
Developed alongside the Cayman, the Tiburon is in fact an escort for its larger sibling. It shares the same design philosophy of a heavily armed, heavily shielded warship, and is more of a gunship than a true Frigate. The Tiburon carries no fighter or support vessels, though its anti-starfighter defences are significant and it is a capable, though not dedicated, anti-starfighter platform.
Although it was designed as an escort specificall for the Cayman, the Tiburon quickly found popularity among the rest of the fleet, where its small size and tough shields meant it could capably serve at the forefront of battle and be expected to survive.
The Tiburon is not terribly quick for its size, but it is heavily armed and armoured, and can confidently take on ships several times its size and expect victory.