Post by Tinman on Mar 9, 2011 12:11:08 GMT -6
TIGER CLASS DESTROYER - HEAVIEST ARMED SHIP IN THE COLONIAL FLEET
No battle can be won with only a single ship. The Colonal Fleet's Battlestars, while formidable fighting ships and aircraft carriers, lacked the heavy firepower, speed and maneuverability to be effective in ship to ship combat in the absence 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 the Colonals 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 Basestar. The 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 the Colonal Fleet 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 8x Viper sized fighters, 4x Fleet type shuttles.
During the First Cylon War, the Tiger was the premier escort and attack capital ship of the Colonial Fleet. Unlike the impressive Colonial Battlestars, which were originally designed as little more than heavily armed 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.
The Tigers were a major surprise to the Cylons - destroying well over a dozen of the formidable Basestars in their first combat deployments.
In the last days of the First Cylon 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.
TIGER CLASS DESTROYER SPECIFICATIONS
SCALE: Capital Warship
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 - pilots)
184 crew
PASSENGERS: 200 Marines
CARGO CAPACITY: 1,800 metric tons
CONSUMABLE: 18 months
MANEUVERABILITY: class B
HULL/ARMOR: 2.8 to 4 meters
EM-SHIELDS: Class Very Heavy
SENSORS: Short/Medium range, sub-light, 200,000 m^3/s
SCANNERS: C at 300,000 KM
WEAPONS:
2x Mega-Pulsar Cannons (nose mounted)
4x Turbo-Laser Cannons (two in each wing)
18x Heavy Blaster batteries
50x Light Flack batteries
12x 20 megaton solonite missiles (anti-capital ship)
2x 400 megaton solonite bombs (planetary bombardment)
EMBARKED CRAFT:
8x Viper sized fighters
4x Fleet type heavy shuttles
4x Mk.I Micro-shuttles
