SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Principality of Altair
TYPE: Interstellar Space Battlecruiser
MODELS: Gneisenau class SBCC-88
DATE INTRODUCED: 2188 AD
LENGTH: 2091.5 feet (637.5 meters)
WIDTH: 918.6 feet (280 meters)
HEIGHT: 656.2 feet (200 meters)
MATERIAL: Composite-Alloy
POWER PLANT: 35x Ceres Energy CEFR-98.5K
OUTPUT: 98,500 megawatts each (3,447,500 megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Composite-Alloy
ARMOR THICKNESS: 1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 450,000 tons
CREW: 901 + 24 pilots (925 total) (72 Gunners, 450 Engineers, 45 Electricians, 45 Technicians, 45 Operators, 80 Officers, 44 Medical, 20 Science, 100 Security, 24 Flight) 

PROPULSION
             FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE:
             3x Ceres Drives CD-ID-T3-50000 Intersection Drive
             SPEED: 0.18 light years per hour each (0.54 light years per hour total)

             SUBLIGHT:
             7x Io Factory #5 EMD-202500 electromagnetic drives
             SPEED: 3,800,000 mph each (26,600,000 mph/.04C total)

             MANEUVER:
             8x Hygiea #3 HYID-135000 high yield ion drives
             SPEED: 2280 mph each (18,240 mph total)

WEAPONS:
             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
             9x Mauzer 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):
             20x Lithgear LG-PC-1002 dual 100-megawatt 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):
              6x Io Factory #1 ITL-Mark V dual-shot ion torpedo retractable 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: 2 space torpedoes each in an autoloading torpedo tube; ROF:  1-2 torpedoes per two seconds with a cyclic rate of 60 torpedoes per minute per torpedo battery.

              TERTIARY (OFFENSIVE):
              2x Lithgear LG-EMPAC-2000 2000-megawatt electromagnetic particle accelerator cannon; Effective Range: 10,000 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 10 parsecs (32.6 light years).
             3x 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 114,400-yd3; Bay holds 24 JdWM-02 JägerWeirMechs (25 tons each)

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
             155x 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:
         Upgrade of the Scharnhorst class battlecruiser.