Killiecrankie Intruder Scout for MgT2300AD

[McPerth]

Some time ago, just to try how could conversions from classic 2300AD ships to MgT 2300AD, I tried to describe the Killiecankie intruder scout (appearing in the Callenge issue #37, in the module Three Blind Mice, by David Nilsen).

Hull	.	.	Tonnage	Cost (MLv)
600 dton hull	Hull	12	.	24
.	Structure	12	.	.
Streamlining	Hybrid lifting body	.	6	6
.	STOL capable	.	12	2.4
Heat Shielding	.	.	.	6
Stealth	.	.	.	60
Stutterwarp	Warp efficiency	3.63	3.74	11.21
New MIlitary Q	Tactical	7	.	.
Reaction Drive	Air Breathing Thruster C	1 G	6	14.4
Power Plant	Fission Q	.	210	32
Radiators	Radiators Q	.	21	1.05
Bridge	Holographic controls	.	20	3
Computer	Model 5	Rating 25	.	10
Software	Stutterwarp Control C	Rating 15	.	0.04
.	Fire Control/2	Rating 10	.	4
.	Library	.	.	.
.	Maneuver/0	.	.	.
Electronics/sensors	Advanced	.	3	2
.	Enhanced Signals Processing	.	2	8
.	Grav Sensors	.	4	4
Fuel	Thrusters	4 hours	36	.
Cargo	.	.	8.59	.
Subcraft	HD 10 'Scout' Sensor Drone	.	10	4
Staterooms	38	.	152	3.8
Spin Habitat	Extendable Spin Capsules 15 m radius	.	61.2	6.12
Other fixtures	Autodoc	2	1	0.05
.	Armouries	3	6	1.5
.	Fuel Prodcessor	1 (10 tons/day)	1	0.01
Weapon mount 1	.	Big Clip	2	0.75
Fire Control	TTA	.	5	0.5
Weapon mount 2	.	Big Clip	2	0.75
Fire Control	TTA	.	5	0.5
Weapon mount 3	.	Big Clip	2	0.75
Fire Control	TTA	.	5	0.5
Weapon mount 4	.	Grape Shot	6	2.5
Missile Bay	4 x SIM 14	.	8.8	0.008
Missile controllers	3	.	0.75	1.5
Totals	.	.	599.99	216.69

Comfort is -1. Crew is:

• Bridge: 15
• Engineering: 13
• Gunners: 7
• Missiles: 3
• Stewards: 3
• Troops: 27

Captain, Marine officer and two other officers have individual staterooms, all the rest have shared ones.

Albeit being a military ship, not being a combat one (its main mission is covert operations and stealthy reccon) it has only civilian size gunnery crew.

The extendable spin habitats each holds 19 staterooms and one autodoc.

 

[McPerth]

Needless to say, the conversion met with unforeseen problems. My main goal was to keep the features given as critical by the designers:

• independent landing capability
• high warp efficiency (original was 3.58)
• long endurance (as in original, that meant fission plant)
• good sensors (after all, it's one of its main missions) plus sensor drone
• same weaponry as original
• a platoon of marines (27)
• in original they told about "significant cargo capacity for priority caroes", and it had 100 m³ of it

The landing capacity put its maximum at 600 tons. The original ship used the nuclear plant doubling as thruster, in what I guess would be a Nuclear thruster in MgT2300 AD, but in MgT it has a minimum letter of J and irradiate the landing zone, so I discarded them in favor of the air-breathing thruster.

Another change is that in the original design it had a hamster cage (in fact two of them countering each other rotation) in the aft part of the ship. In MgT 2300 AD the only spin habitat allowed in hybrid lifting body ships is the extendable spin capsule, so I had to use it.

 

[Brandon C]

What are the arcs for the four turrets and three TTAs?

 

[McPerth]

What are the arcs for the four turrets and three TTAs?

See submunitons description:

Submunitions have no facing and may fire into any aspect

In fact, in the original module they were told to be placed far from the ship and detonated (sometimes using the drone for detection) from distance to ambush enemy ships.

 

[McPerth]

Edited it somewhat:

• deleted the standard turrets. They are not needed for the subminitions dispensers
• fixed missile tonnages. Reduced cargo space to compensate
• added dots in the empty cells for better readability (the table function does not always take well empty cells).

Another change I've made form the classic design is to add the fuel procesor. As the main misison of the Killiecrankies is deep scouting and reccon behind enemy lines, I guess they would be useful...

 

[Brandon C]

See submunitons description:

Still getting used to 2300AD giving specific, rather than generic, names for weapons. I mistook the turrets to be empty since they weren't followed by something like "pulse laser" or "missile rack"

 

[McPerth]

New Edit: adding stealth (I forgot about it, and it's basic for its mision).