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Pistol class Destroyer Boat
Ship: Colt Class: Pistol Type: Destroyer Boat Architect: Joseph Kimball USP DB-J7016S3-070000-50A07-0 MCr 11,691.820 9.95 KTons Bat Bear 1 1 1 3 Crew: 134 Bat 1 1 1 3 TL: 8 Cargo: 23.000 Fuel: 597.000 EP: 597.000 Agility: 0 Ships Troops: 10 Pulse Lasers Craft: 2 x 50T Cutter, 2 x 30T Cutter Fuel Modules Fuel Treatment: On Board Fuel Purification Backups: 1 x Model/2bis Computer Architects Fee: MCr 116.918 Cost in Quantity: MCr 9,353.456 Named for handguns, especially lower tech models. Because of the inadequate computer support on these vessels, a second computer is onboard to split duties (thus it is not really a backup computer). This is a very powerful vessel for it's tech level, and quite popular with crews (because the crew is in single-occupancy staterooms). The low acceleration tends to keep it out of fleet actions, and it is more commonly seen in monitor roles such as defending an installation, planet, or fuelling site.
The TL8 PA spinal mount just cried out to me to be put in a TL8 hull. However, the size limitation reared it's ugly head early on (the max size hull for TL8 computers is 3999T, and the spinal mount by itself is 5500T). So I thought to myself that a bit of 'legalistic heresy' was in order. I figured that since a 'bis' computer can handle a Jump of one level higher that it's number would suggest, that perhaps it could also handle one level higher hull size as well. Therefore, This vessel has a 2bis computer (actually 2 of them), which I decided could do the job. At the very least this seems like a reasonable 'stop-gap' measure for a TL8 world that really needed the firepower and didn't have a neighboring TL9+ world to buy computers from. In a TL8 universe, this would be a monster, viewed in the same kind of awe as the Death Star in Star Wars was perhaps.
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