United
Nations Space Command
From
its early years as a peacekeeping and policing force in the Core Worlds
and Inner Colonies of the human sphere, with ships and crews loaned from
the various member states of the UN, the UN Space Command has grown into
an autonomous force with its own fleet assets, ship designs and
construction yards. By the time of the First Xeno War against the Kra’Vak,
the UNSC
fleet is as large as that of any of the main human power blocs
and its command structure is completely independent of the navies of the
member states, answering only to the UN Grand Council - which by this time
is a Terran World Government in all but name. During the Xeno War and the
ensuing Siege of Sol, the UNSC fleet forms a major part of the defensive
forces protecting Earth and the Core Worlds from the alien advance. The
ships of the UNSC fleet are powerful vessels designed with the cutting
edge of human technology, and make wide use of modular designs to simplify
construction and repair. UNSC warships are very tought and built with
redundancies so they take systems damage less often than most starships
and have average hull integrety and no armor. Screens are used only
on capital ships. They mount a variety of beams but for heavy
weapons, they use Pulse Torpedoes for a punch and Anti-Matter Torpedoes
for area control and large first strikes. The UNSC weapons
development program that came up with the Pulse Torpedoes had a
breakthrough with gravatic lens focusing and have developed Grasers as a
heavy beam weapon capabile of inflicting massive damage (if it hits).
As the Xeno War progressed, the Kra'Vak's manuverability meant that the
AMTs became less useful and construction and refits began to use more
Pulse Torpedoes and Grasers instead. UNSC ships have moderate
to high thrust depending on their role.
Graser
The Graser (Gamma-Ray Laser), this is the
primary heavy armament of the UNSC's large ships.
Weapon
Mass
Class
1 (1-arc): MASS 2
Class
1 (3-arc): MASS 3
Class
1 (6-arc): MASS 4
Class
2 (1-arc): MASS 9, +3 per extra arc
Class
3 (1-arc): MASS 24, +6 per extra arc
For
larger classes the mass is 3xMASS of the next smaller class.
Cost
= Mass x 4.
A
Graser rolls a number of beam dice equal to its class in the closest range band; reduce by one beam die
per extra range band. Range bands are 18mu. It
rolls to hit like a beam, including re-roll
dice ignoring screens, but does damage like a Pulse Torpedo, so you miss on
1,2 and 3; do 1D6 damage on 4 or 5 and 2D6 on 6 and get a re-roll.
Screens and Vapour Shrouds affect the fire as normal, so they affect
initial rolls, but re-roll dice ignore Screens. The final damage is
added up and goes half (round up) to the first armour layer, the
other half penetrates one layer. The damage D6s don't get any
re-rolls.
Alternate Version:
Remove the re-roll and cost is Mass x 3.
Playtesting
Note: Grasers
have the ability to do quite a bit of damage with a singe hit, thus
their high mass and cost, but please consider how often they do
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AMT
(Anti-Matter Torpedo)
A
one turn missile armed with an anti-matter
warhead.
The
Anti-Matter Torpedo is a single shot weapon of Mass 2 and
Cost 8.
It is a placed-marker
weapon (fired in missile phase) like Salvo Missiles with a Range
of 18mu. AMTs can be fired in a 180 arc centered on
the direction that the icon faces. After the ship movement phase, the AMT moves
up to 6mu (3mu in vector)
from the marker towards nearest target before detonating.
On
detonation, all ships within 1mu of marker take 3D6 damage, within 2mu
2D6, within 3mu 1D6. Non-penetrating, ie: damage comes off armour
first.
PDS
on ships in area effect may attempt to attack the AMT, succeeding on
a 6 which reduces the radius, minus 1mu and dice damage, minus a D6
rolled for damage, for each 6 rolled (for example: A PDS rolls a 6 verses a AMT, this
reduces the effect to 2D6 within 1mu of the marker, 1D6 within 2mu
and there is now no effect from 2mu to 3mu). Any fighters within
the range of effect are destroyed. A scattergun fired at an
AMT removes 1D3-1 "levels"
Fighters
may wish to attack the AMT and to do this they must close to contact with
the AMT and roll as per PDS. AMTs have the same effects as
Plasma Bolts vs
Screens, Vapour Shrouds
etc (level-1 screens negate any rolls of 6, level-2
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Variable
Hull Rows
Not
all ships have the same hull integrity, not just with regard to how
much mass they put into their hull, but also how well this stands up
in a fight before systems start being effected. To simulate this you
can arrange hull boxes in more/fewer than the standard 4 rows.
3 hull rows - Hull costs 3xMass; takes only the 6+ and 5+
thresholds before dying
4 hull rows - Hull costs 2xMass (Fleet Book standard); takes
the 6+, 5+ and 4+ threshold checks
5 hull rows - Hull costs 1.5xMass; takes the 6+, 5+, 4+ and
3+ thresholds
6 hull rows - Hull costs 1xMass; takes the 6+, 5+, 4+, 3+ and
2+ threshold checks.
Ship
Design Note: Ships
with 3 hull boxes or less should use the 3xMass cost of a 3 row ship
to be accurate and not let the designer save points by saying they
are supposed to be a 6 row hull and get the point savings.
UNSC
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Hermes class DIPLOMATIC COURIER
FT-1102
TMF: 9
NPV: 30
CPV: 22
Hull: 2 (1/1/0) 1 Crew
Main Drive 7
FTL
1 Fire Control
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
1 Mass of passenger compartments
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A fully militarized variant replaces the passenger compartment by a
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Warrior class STRIKE
CORVETTE
FT-1103
TMF: 16
NPV: 64
CPV: 51
Hull: 4 (2/1/1) 1 Crew
Main Drive: 4
FTL
1 Fire Control
1 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
2 AMTs
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Hunter class FRIGATE
FT-1104
TMF: 24
NPV: 94
CPV: 76
Hull: 6 (2/2/2) 2 Crew
Main Drive: 6
FTL
1 Fire Control
1 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
2 Class 1 Grasers (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
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Lawkeeper class PATROL/CUSTOMS FRIGATE
FT-1104A
TMF: 20
NPV: 76
CPV: 60
Hull: 6 (2/2/2) 1 Crew
Main Drive: 6
FTL
1 Fire Control
1 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
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Lake class DESTROYER
FT-1105
TMF: 34
NPV: 130
CPV: 108
Hull: 9 (3/3/3) 2 Crew
Main Drive 6
FTL
1 Fire Control
2 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
1 Class 2 Beam Battery (FP/F/FS)
3 AMTs Lake Mk II class DESTROYER
NPV: 124 / CPV: 102 Replace the AMTs with 1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS) Early refits and alternate construction before Xeno War
Lake Mk III class DESTROYER
NPV: 130 /
CPV: 108
Replace the AMTs with
2 Class 1 Grasers (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) Refits and new construction during the Xeno War
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Mountain class LIGHT CRUISER
FT-1106
TMF: 50
NPV: 187
CPV: 162
Hull: 15 (5/5/5) 3 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
2 Fire Controls
3 PDS
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
3 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS, all arcs)
1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS)
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Bay class ESCORT CRUISER
FT-1107
TMF: 70
NPV: 256
CPV: 235
Hull: 21 (7/7/7) 4 Crew
Main Drive 6
FTL
2 Fire Controls
1 ADFC
6 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS)
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Bay II class ESCORT CRUISER
FT-1107A
TMF: 77
NPV: 281
CPV: 263
Hull: 23 (8/8/7) 4 Crew
Main Drive 6
FTL
2 Fire Controls
1 ADFC
5 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
3 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS, all arcs)
1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS)
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During the Xeno War, the need
for area defense platforms increased. Unfortunately, the shipyards
constructing the center wing sections for the Bay class Escort Cruisers
was heavily damaged in a KV raid. As a result, the Bay II class was
developed as a way to get more hulls for area defense into the fleet as
quickly as possible using the same engine and front command section as the
Bay class (the ADFC being in the spherical housing) and the center wing
section from the River class Heavy Cruiser. The resulting ship was
slightly heavier and a bit better armed for ship to ship combat but did
loose some anti-fighter capability though it still is a capable area
defense ship that the fleet would have been lacking otherwise.
UPDATE: Another Bay II variant has been seen taking trials, this one
has twin engines but they are the smaller destroyer/light cruiser
versions. Analysts believe that the larger engine types have been
routed to contruct more capital level ships to replace recent losses while
the smaller engines are much easier to contruct and currently all the
suppliers are months ahead in delivering engines for destroyer
construction.
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Storm class STRIKE CRUISER
FT-1118 - Single Engine
May get refits similar to Lake class DD Mk II and Mk III
TMF: 56
NPV: 209
CPV: 184
Hull: 17 (6/6/5) 3 Crew
Main Drive 6
FTL
2 Fire Controls
3 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
3 AMTs
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Storm II class FAST STRIKE CRUISER
FT-1118A - Twin Engine
May get refits similar to Lake class DD Mk II and Mk III
TMF: 80
NPV: 288
CPV: 272
Hull: 24 (8/8/8) 4 Crew
Main Drive 8
FTL
2 Fire Controls
3 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
3 AMTs
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River class HEAVY CRUISER
FT-1108
TMF: 87
NPV: 328
CPV: 317
Hull: 27 (9/9/9) 5 Crew
Main Drive 5
FTL
2 Fire Controls
3 PDS
1 Class 1 Beam Battery
4 Class 2 Beam Batteries (2xF/FP/AP, 2xF/FS/AS)
1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS)
1 Class 2 Graser (F)
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Point class BATTLE CRUISER
FT-1109
TMF: 109
NPV: 415
CPV: 425
Hull: 33 (11/11/11) 6 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
3 Fire Controls
4 PDS
Level 1 Screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
4 Class 2 Beam Batteries (2xF/FP/AP, 2xF/FS/AS)
2 Pulse Torpedoes (2xFP/F/FS)
1 Class 2 Graser (F)
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Luna class BATTLESHIP
FT-1110
TMF: 137
NPV: 531
CPV: 582
Hull: 39 (13/13/13) 7 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
3 Fire Controls
4 PDS
Level 1 Screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
4 Class 2 Beam Batteries (2xF/FP/AP, 2xF/FS/AS)
2 Pulse Torpedos (2xFP/F/FS)
1 Class 2 Graser (F)
6 AMTs
Luna Mk II class BATTLESHIP
FT-1110
NPV: 531 /
CPV: 582 New construction during Xeno War. Advanced understanding of
Gravatics allowed them to upgrade the Graser to 3 arcs and adding
2 Class 1 Grasers (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) while removing AMTs.
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Sea class BATTLEDREADNOUGHT
FT-1111
TMF: 160
NPV: 616
CPV: 666
Hull: 45 (15/15/15) 8 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
3 Fire Controls
4 PDS
Level 1 Screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
4 Class 2 Beam Batteries (2xF/FP/AP, 2xF/FS/AS)
2 Pulse Torpedos (2xFP/F/FS)
1 Class 2 Graser (F)
6 AMTs
1 Fighter Bay
Sea Mk II class BATTLEDREADNOUGHT
NPV: 616 /
CPV: 666
New construction during Xeno War. Advanced understanding of
Gravatics allowed them to upgrade the Graser to 3 arcs and adding
2 Class 1 Grasers (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) while removing AMTs.
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Gaia class SUPERDREADNOUGHT
FT-1112
Smaller version of the Sol class SDN built during Xeno War.
TMF: 187
NPV: 726
CPV: 838
Hull: 57 (19/19/19) 10 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
4 Fire Controls
4 PDS
Level 1 Screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
4 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS, 2x all arcs)
1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS)
1 Class 3 Graser (F)
2 Class 1 Grasers (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
1 Fighter Bay
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Sol class EXTENDED RANGE SUPERDREADNOUGHT
FT-1112A
TMF: 259
NPV: 949
CPV: 1238
Hull: 72 (24/24/24) 13 Crew
Main Drive 5
FTL
4 Fire Controls
4 PDS
Level 1 Screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
4 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS, 2x all arcs)
1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS)
1 Class 3 Graser (F)
6 AMTs
1 Fighter Bay
12 Mass Cargo (3 cargo holds, 4 mass each)
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Asteroid class ESCORT CARRIER
FT-1117
TMF: 87
NPV: 326
CPV: 251
Hull: 24 (8/8/8) 5 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
2 Fire Controls
1 ADFC
6 PDS
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
3 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS, all arcs)
2 Fighter Bays
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Star class LIGHT CARRIER
FT-1113
TMF: 152
NPV: 565
CPV: 476
Hull: 45 (15/15/15) 8 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
2 Fire Controls
4 PDS
Level 1 Screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
1 Pulse Torpedo (FP/F/FS)
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Constellation class HEAVY CARRIER
FT-1114
TMF: 269
NPV: 997
CPV: 972
Hull: 78 (26/26/26) 14 Crew
Main Drive 4
FTL
2 Fire Controls
5 PDS
Level 1 Screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
2 Pulse Torpedoes (2xFP/F/FS)
8 Fighter Bays
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Visionary class DEEP-RANGE EXPLORER
FT-1115
TMF: 108
NPV: 334
CPV: 272
Hull: 33 (11/11/11)
Main Drive 3
FTL
1 Fire Control
3 PDS
Level 1 screens
2 Class 1 Beam Batteries
2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS)
Hanger Bay for 6 Mass of small craft
12 Mass Cargo (3 cargo holds, 4 mass each)
12 Mass Long Range Sensors (3 systems, 4 mass each) LRS have no
value in combat situations
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FLEET REPLENISHMENT TENDER
FT-1116
TMF: 94
NPV: 241
CPV: 181
Hull: 24 (8/8/8)
Main Drive 4
FTL
1 Fire Control
2 PDS
3 Class 1 Beam Batteries
36 Mass Cargo (3 cargo holds, 12 mass each)
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