Solomani Confederation (Military)

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Confederation Navy: Roles, Functions and Assets

V. Tac(tical) launchers are quarter tonnes each, and, apparently, technological level ten.

W. Magazine capacity are four each, are smart and scopey.

X. Anti aircraft cause eight dice of damage, cost sixteen kilostarbux, two kilostarbux per missile.

Y. Anti personnel cause four dice of damage and blast factor/ten, cost sixteen kilostarbux, one kilostarbux per missile.

Z. Armour piercing factor/ten cause eight dice of damage, cost sixteen kilostarbux, one and a half kilostarbux per missile.

 

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Confederation Navy: Swordfish Class Torpedo Bomber

1. Seventy tonne primitive, non gravitated, self sealing, buffered planetoid.

2. Artificial buffered planetoid skin expressed as regular spaced, and standard sized, studs and dimples.

3. Default construction level ten.

4. Usable space forty five and a half tonnes.

5. Cockpit capable, dual, two and a half tonnes, forty eight man hours of oxygen.

6. Pilot, sensor operator, gunner.

7. In theory, sixteen hours of oxygen for three crew members.

8. Sixteen hours also being the maximum flight time of a flight crew.

9. Usually, capped at twelve hours.

 

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Confederation Navy: Swordfish Class Torpedo Bomber

A. Primitive hulls are limited to maximum factor/three acceleration.

B. Jump and manoeuvre drives are not permitted to be installed.

C. Primitive hulls require only one power point per hundred tonnes, for basic services.

D. Upto five power points for extreme temperature ranges.

E. Acceleration factor/three might seem rather slow for a combat spacecraft.

F. But, with torpedoes being the principal armament, the Swordfish doesn't have to close to dogfight range.

 

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Confederation Navy: Swordfish Class Torpedo Bomber

G. At seventy tonnes, can we install three default torpedo launchers on the seventy tonne smallcraft?

H. Donno, firmpoints are not hardpoints.

I. Seventy tonnes does support a seven tonne firmpointed barbette, with three torpedo launchers.

J. You just have to manoeuvre a smallcrafted torpedo bomber close enough, to fire off the torpedo magazine.

K. And then, evade interception.

 

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Confederation Navy: Swordfish Class Torpedo Bomber

L. You could switch out the torpedo barbette, with a missile one.

M. In theory, you could save seven tonnes, and install three virtual mounted missile launchers.

N. Each turret with one or more missile racks holds 12 missiles (missile racks on Firmpoints hold four missiles).

O. Optionally, one monoturret, and two mounted fixed points.

P. Though, going by the wording, you can only stuff the firmpointed turret with four missiles.

 

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Confederation Navy: Swordfish Class Torpedo Bomber

Q. Why would the preference be for something that costs almost twice as much, and takes up, whatever multiple is nothing, versus seven tonnes?

R. Well, rate of fire.

S. The barbette can shoot off five missiles, in any direction, versus three, in specific headings.

T. Also, has a magazine of twenty five missiles, so waste is more three tonnes, rather than seven.

U. In either case, no additional power is required, compared to plus one, for any turret, mono or otherwise.

 

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Confederation Navy: Swordfish Class Torpedo Bomber

V. Technically speaking, if the torpedo barbette is switched out for the missile barbette, the role of the spacecraft would change, as well.

W. It should be switched to the Defiant class aerospace defence fighter.

X. Factor/three acceleration is rather slow, compared to the norm of a minimum factor/six.

Y. Interception by missile, which would vary upto factor/fifteen acceleration.

Z. A salvo of five missiles being quite daunting, to most small starships, and smallcraft.

 

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Confederation Navy: Defiant Class Aerospace Defender

1. Designed for a twelve hour patrol.

2. Also, as an interceptor, based on orbital stations.

3. While factor/three acceleration isn't much faster than commercial grade spacecraft, it's expected that enemy starwarships tend to be headed towards them, rather than running away.

4. Doctrine would limit combat engagement time to an hour.

5. So missile magazine would need more than fifty missiles.

6. More as a deterrent against a lone commerce raider.

7. Preferred climate would be the temperate zone.

8. Extreme temperature exposure requires minor adjustment, to amplify basic power requirement by five.

9. Budget nature of the design allows multiple examples to be assigned to a station.

 

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Confederation Navy: Swordfish Class Torpedo Bomber

1. The Swordfish class torpedo bomber is an ancient design, dating back to the Interstellar Wars.

2. The Terrans came up with plan to cripple the Vilani starwarships, while parked in their sheltered anchorages.

3. Terran carriers jumped outside the manoeuvre drive freefall boundaries, and stealthily launched the unpropelled Swordfish torpedo bombers towards the Vilani naval bases.

4. Running silent, the torpedo bombers took, most, of the Vilani bases by surprise.

5. Once detected, or close enough, the Swordfish launch their initial salvo of torpedoes.

6. They then turnaround, and blast away in the direction they came.

7. The barbette then swivels around, and keeps out pumping torpedoes until the magazine is dry.

8. The Vilani never quite figured out where all those Swordfish were coming from.

9. They did, however, heavily reinforce their naval bases.