SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Principality of Altair
TYPE: Interstellar Space Battleship
MODELS: Bayern class SBB-88
DATE INTRODUCED: 2188 AD
LENGTH: 2655.2 feet (809.2 meters)
WIDTH: 1254.9 feet (384.5 meters)
HEIGHT: 590 feet (180 meters)
MATERIAL: Composite-Alloy
POWER PLANT: 69x Ceres Energy CEFR-98.5K
OUTPUT: 98,500 megawatts each (6796.5 Gigawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal-composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 6 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 1,500,000 tons
CREW: 1158 (101 Gunners, 156 Engineers, 150 Electricians, 150 Technicians, 150 Operators, 100 Officers, 55 Medical, Security, 200, 36 Flight)

PROPULSION

             FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE:
             4x Ceres Drives CD-ID-T3-50000 Intersection Drive
             SPEED: 0.054 light years per hour each (0.216 light years per hour total)

             SUBLIGHT:
             7x Io Factory #5 EMD-202500 electromagnetic drives
             SPEED: 1,140,000 mph each (7,980,000 mph/0.011C total)

             MANEUVER:
              16x Hygiea #3 HYID-135000 high yield ion drives
             SPEED: 684 mph each (10,944 mph total)

WEAPONS:

             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
          9xMauzer Mechanics MM-MBC-400 dual 200-megawatt MAULER (MAson-Unified-LasER) Beam turrets*; Effective Range: 1440 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 3 blasts every twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 9 blasts per minute.

             PRIMARY (ASSAULT):
             38x Lithgear LG-PC-1002 dual 100-megawatt (200-MW total) PHELAC turrets; Effective Range: 800 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 3 blasts every twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 9 blasts per minute.

              SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
              10x Io Factory #4 ITL-Mark VI ten-shot ion torpedo cruise missile launcher; Missile Type: IDST-10K ion drive computer-guided space torpedoes armed with one 10,000-pound nuclear warhead; Effective Range: 1056 miles; Payload: 20 space torpedoes each in an autoloading torpedo tube; ROF: 1-10 torpedoes per two seconds with a cyclic rate of 300 torpedoes per minute per torpedo battery.

              TERTIARY (OFFENSIVE):
               1x Lithgear LG-EMPAC-5000 5000-megawatt electromagnetic particle accelerator cannon; Effective Range: 25,000 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 1 blast every ten seconds or six blasts per minute each cannon.

ELECTRONICS:

             1x Microwave Radio Communications array with a range of 1000 AU.
             1x Super Luminal Velocity communications array with a range of 10 light years.
             1x LADAR array with a range of 220,000 miles.
             1x Passive EMS sensor array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
             1x Active EMS sensor array with a range of 100,000 miles.
             1x Super Luminal Velocity sensor array with a range of 20 parsecs (65.2 light years).
             8x Gravitational Control/Antigravity unit. Effect: Provides artificial lift, g-force compensation, and enhanced maneuverability, and warp bubble generation for the triple intersection drives.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
             6x Europa Research ER-DF-2000 2000-megawatt LEVEL-1 Gravitonic deflector field generators; Effect: has an output of 180 terajoules and a regeneration rate of 18 terajoules per 10 seconds.

HANGAR BAY:
             1x 165,202-yd3; Bay holds 6 PzWM-01 PanzerWeirMechs (50 tons each), and 24 JdWM-02 JägerWeirMechs (25 tons each)

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
              193x Ganymede Industrial  GI-EP-01 emergency escape pods; DETAILS: Escape pods have 24-hour life-support, a speed of Mach 1 (760 mph), 3 weeks of food for six people, full reentry capability, parachutes for free fall, life raft for six people (water landing), and 24 hours of fuel for rocket engines.

Description/Overview:
          The Bayern class was simply an upgrade of the Bizmark class. The Bayern was fitted with MAULER meson cannons in place of the PHELAC turrets. The older Type-02 Intersection Drives were replaced with faster Type-03.