Mikhell Cruiser


Craft: Shuluj Military KKR Mikhell Cruiser
Type: Archaic battle cruiser
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 70 meters
Skill: Archaic starship piloting; Mikhell cruiser
Cost: 15,000 credits (3 million credits +, in mint condition)
Crew: 180
Passengers: 50
Cargo Capacity: 500 kg
Consumables: 2 months
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x12
Hyper Backup: No
Nav Computer: Takes a week to compute jump, cannot store more than one jump
Maneuverability: 1D+2
Space: 2
Atmosphere: 140; 400 kph
Hull: 2D+2
Shields: 1D
Sensors:
Passive: 20/0D
Scan: 30/1D
Search: 50/1D+2
Focus: 4/2D
Weapons:
12 Double 105mm Projectile Cannons
Scale: Starfighter
Fire Arc: Turret
Crew: 1
Skill: Starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 1/3/5
Atmosphere Range: 100/300/500m
Damage: 2D+2
4 Impulse Torpedo Tubes
Scale: Starfighter
Fire Arc: Front
Missile Loadout: 3 (each)
Crew: 4
Skill: Starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1/4/9
Atmosphere Range: 100/400/900m
Damage: 7D+2

One of the most powerful cruisers of it's age, the Mikhell cruiser was a contemporary of the Hero and Lancer class fighters. It's twelve double cannons put out a quite heavy field of fire, and it's torpedo tubes (each of which carried up to three Impulse torpedoes) were one of the deadliest weapons of it's age. These torpedoes were almost the size of a fighter craft, and are very slow when compared to modern weapons (double the penalties vs. moving targets). However, the amount of damage that they put out is comparable to that caused by modern weapons, enabling a few Mikhell cruisers to survive as pirate or escort craft.

These ships were one of the first stock craft fitted with hyperdrives (and due to their hull rating, it was a starfighter hyperdrive years before those appeared again). They have no mass shadow detectors, and their nav computer is ungainly and slow, relying on magnetic storage and solid state circuitry. Furthermore, the hyperdrives are unshielded, and they produce substantial, easily followed wakes that are often strong enough to draw other craft in with them. Because of the space taken up by their high powered torpedoes, Mikhell cruisers do not carry any starfighters.
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