|
TIGER
CLASS DESTROYER:
No battle can be won with
only a single ship. Battlestars, while formidable aircraft carriers,
lacked the heavy firepower, speed and maneuverability to be effective
in ship to ship combat in the absents of fighter cover. Many a Battlestar
was destroyed in the early days of the war, when fighters were drawn
away and the massive Battlestars were forced to confront the deadly
Baseships of the Cylon Empire. Thus humanity struck at the Cylons
with massive fleets, combining the impressive fighter deployment
of the Battlestar with more heavily armed frigates, destroyers and
cruisers.
By the 71st yharn, the
Colonial fleets found themselves ill equipped to deal with the onslaught
of the Cylon's latest breed of Capital ship, the Hades class Base-Star.
New Cylon warship was armed with three-hundred fighters, 100+ turbo-lasers
and two Mega-Pulsar cannons capable of destroying almost any capital
ship, and thus the time for a new breed of Colonial attack cruiser
had arrived.
Premier destroyer type
vessel placed into service by humanity was the "Tiger class" destroyer!
The Tiger was the most heavily armed warship built to that date,
armed with 18 heavy turbo-laser batteries, 50 light turbo-lasers,
four Laser Cannons in the wings and upgraded variants came to included
two Mega-Pulsar cannons in the nose. In ship-to-ship combat, no
vessel in the known universe could best the Tiger.
Measuring 1,074 meters,
about 5/6 the length of the Battlestars, the Tiger was nearly
as powerful, was faster, significantly more maneuverable and carried
only half the crew of her cousin. In addition to her massive weapon
payload, the Tiger also carried 8 Starhound class Vipers, 4 Landram
surface transports and 4 Mk. VI space shuttles.
During the "Thousand
Yharn" war, the Tiger was the premier escort and attack capital
ship of the human race. Unlike the impressive Colonial Battlestars,
which were originally designed as little more than aircraft carriers,
the Tiger class Destroyer was able to effectively engage is high
speed ship-to-ship combat and protect the Battlestars in fleet
opperations, destroying any Cylon capital ship that came between
the Battlestars and their objectives.
In the last days of
the "Thousand Yharn" war, all of the Colonial fleet, along with
the rogue ships of humanities fallen allies, made one last strike
at the Cylons, at their primary Tylium mining and starship construction
yards in the solar system of "Molecay." All the starships that
participated in the "Battle of Molecay", including the valiant
Tigers, were destroyed.
ARIES
DOCKS TIGER CLASS DESTROYER:
|
|
SCALE: |
capital |
LENGTH: |
1,074
meters |
TONNAGE: |
16,000,000
metric tons |
SPEED: |
0.24C
sub-light, 1.0C warp |
POWER:
|
1
Tylium energizer [7,360
Terawatts]
2 fusion reactors [43.8
Terawatts]
|
STANDARD
CREW: |
264
18
officers
62
warriors - 12 are fighter pilots
184
crew |
PASSENGERS: |
200
troops |
CARGO
CAPACITY: |
1,800
metric tons |
CONSUMABLE: |
18
months |
MANEUVERABILITY: |
class
B |
HULL/ARMOR: |
2.8
to 4 meters |
EM-SHIELDS: |
20%
- 40% |
SENSORS: |
Short/Medium
range, sub-light, 200,000 m^3/s |
SCANNERS: |
C
at 300,000 KM |
WEAPONS:
|
2
Mega-Pulsar Cannons
4
Turbo-Laser Cannons
18 Heavy Blaster batteries
50 Light Flack batteries
12 20 megaton solonite missiles (anti-capital ship)
2 400 megaton solonite bombs (planetary bombardment)
|
FIGHTERS:
|
8
Starhound class Vipers
4 Landram surface transports
4 Mk. VI space shuttles |
|
|