Originally posted by RichardP:
Check the little red book that came with the game. Supplement 5 - Lightening Class Cruisers.
It seems that when the war ended their were numerous AHL in yards with battle damage and some being built. Some of the new ships got cancelled and some of the damaged ones were decommisioned. It seems that one of the shipyards (Ghassidda ?) was involved in a minor scandal as parts of these ships turned up elsewhere (either in other AHL) or AS OUTPOSTS.
So we can use them as outposts / space habitats etc all over the rim. There is an adventure in Challenge for Imperial Research Station Beta that was actually an AHL with the middle chopped out.
Also remember Adventure 1, they gutted a kinuir and used it as an orbital prison (same plot in andromeda recently). Why not do the same with bits of an AHL.
Cheers
Richard
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That booklet has all the names of her class as well.
The MT module
Arrival vengeance stressed at least 4 were at the Imp Navy depot of Trin/SM. The Pc's hijack AV and take her out on thier mission.
4 ships of her class (a cruron) were known to be in Lucan's Inventory (mentioned in passing somewheres,IIRC). IMTU, these were the Vermillion, Brilliant, Azure, and Radiant Lightnings.( and later became vampire ships).
One can also (if in a regency/Domain of Deneb campaign) use these used as part of the Aslan-Imperial border patrol.
For the Reft sector, to set up the "calibration points", they could be used as huge fuel tenders to refuel/ restock these bases/ fuel dumps for the J-6 VJ-class cruisers. With the shortage of vessels the Domain had at the time of the Virus, they would have been reactivated, I feel sure to paramiliatry use and quarantine patrol work.
RichardP is correct about the hulls from the war. Many were sold off to TL-14 planetary navies, or used as orbital bases, else wheres, and their Jay drives removed for spares once installed insystem.
Oberlindes has their version, with all its weapons
on the caveat they do not operate her in the marches, but from her frontier, into Vanguard/ Trojan Reaches Sectors.
IISS has the ISSBard Refuge, as a Scout cruiser. Given the loyalties of the Final war, was most likely utilized by strephon's Faction (imho).